2023-07-30, 15:00–15:30 (Asia/Taipei), TR 513
Language: English
Open source softwares built for social impact or research & sciences are an excellent representation of a WIP world. Especially from a design lens where contributions and iterations are complex. OS project teams may not always have the funds or the clarity to have design as a part of their toolkit, yet, designers continue to push the envelope, take responsibility to demonstrate and add value. In this talk, we hope to help a lot more designers do it better. Powerful design tools make it possible to support OS more easily than it was possible earlier. This talk will also throw light to the much needed conversation on designing in Open source which needs a wider audience.
Key takeaways:
- Cultivating a purpose driven, and community mindset towards design
- Building sustainable design practices
- Designing beyond business benefits
- Understanding the OS space for a better collaboration with designers and other stakeholders
- Immediate resources for designers to contribute on OS post this talk!
Talk outline:
1. Our experience of designing for open source product - how we set up the project file, design system using other open source design systems.
2. Why to contribute - how it can make us better designers.
3. How to contribute to Open source projects - from finding the right project, picking issues to work on, committing changes and making it easy for the developer or the next designer to build on it.
4. How to get around the common challenges with contributing to OS.
5. How to nurture a language to demonstrate the value of Design in OS and collaborate with stakeholders - how we converted the project from seeing design as a partial task to having a seat at the table.
入門
Target Audience –Designers with 0-3+ years of experience. Designers with 3+ years of experience who are looking for a way to be a part of the open source community.
Abhishek a multi-disciplinary product designer with 8 years of experience in UI/UX, branding, product management, mentoring designers, leading a team. He has been working in the social impact space designing Open source softwares. He aims to promote ethical, user-caring design thinking practices for a better digital world.
Eriol has been working as a designer for 10+ years working in for-profits and then NGO's and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Superbloom design, research, open-source and technology projects.
Eriol is a part-time funded PhD researcher at Newcastle University's Open Lab looking at how designers participate in humanitarian and human rights focussed open-source software projects.
They are also part of the core teams at Open Source Design(http://opensourcedesign.net/) and Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/) and Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/) and help hosts podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)