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Design From The Realm of Open-Source Open Source Is the New Sauce - Abati Adewale Shodipo Ayomide | React Finland Conference, Helsinki 2020

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I DO OPEN SOURCE @developerayo

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GITHUB STAR @developerayo

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Senior Developer Advocate & Developer Program Manager unStack Africa Developers Circles Lagos from Facebook React.js Lagos Open Source Community Africa AfricaHacks

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Let’s get cooking

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Designers can’t get less creative, the more you produce design assets the more creative you get overtime #experience

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The Problem

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Starting out with contributing to open-source as a designer can be intimidating and confusing based on the level of features you see already prepared with little or no documentation for designers.

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The ideology of designers not needed in open-source, but just make it work.

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The Solution

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Resources: tailored towards how to contribute to open-source as a designer. Thanks to Open Source Design, Open Source Initiative and others creating design related content in relation to Open Source

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Conferences: tailored towards open source for designers on a large scale, like what is happening right now.

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Tools: Developers/companies needs to create more tools to help aid designers contribute to open- source effectively.

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Designers need to understand how to communicate with Developers and Developers have to understand how to communicate with Designers

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Getting started with OSS

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Open-Source in a nutshell is a free software built by the community for the community with improvements shared across different technical talents.

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The Web has been open- source since `View Page Source`

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How can a designer begin contributing to open-source?

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The GitHub issue tab is the best place to start out.

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Evaluate a chosen project’s workflow, user experience, colour combination and every component.

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Never start a feature without consulting one of the project authors, if its a valid add and how it can also be improved.

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Coming up with alternative design patterns, but raising an issue in relation to why, how and timeline.

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Prototype your designs properly if you are contributing to an OS project where they careless about design so as to convince them of how this feature is supposed to work and not the way it currently works.

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Crappy things some engineers say about design.

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Design is an ideology not a professional profession.

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if the end product is quality software, why can't designers code?

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Design is one of the most significant department while building a startup product and also working on an open- source project.

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The Web has been open-source for designers to contribute to using the `Web Inspector` which grants you access to live debugging design in CSS.

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Version Control `design history` & Something like Git for Designers, Being able to push designs between design tools with ease.

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Designing for multiple devices/ responsiveness if you really want to convince them.

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Start Writing Documentations for other designers to see and follow along It’s a trend someone has to start

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Someone didn’t start because they believed someone else would, at the end, no one end’s up starting until a couple of years later. @developerayo Screenshot & Tweet This:

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TOOLS

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•Figma Adobe XD Sketch DESIGN

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•InVision Studio Adobe XD Origami Studio: Sketch Webflow Framer Zeplin Flowmapp PROTOTYPING

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•Zeplin Slack Figma InVision DISCUSSIONS AND COLLABORATIONS

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Resources where not openly distributed as it is today, we have people writing, creating video content, runnings workshops, conference talks, writing research articles and lot’s more Today is the best time to start contributing to open source as a designer and I believe you should start now => GitHub.com

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Some Resources https://opensource.org/ https://opensourcedesign.net/ https://www.oscafrica.org/ https://itsfoss.com/ https://opensource.facebook.com/ https://opensource.google/ https://opensource.microsoft.com/ https://opensource.twitter.com/

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Thank You Question? Ask & Follow me on Twitter and GitHub @developerayo Shodipo Ayomide | React Finland Conference, Helsinki 2020