A presentation at Open Up Summit 2020 in in Taipei, Taiwan by Eriol Fox
Setting up your OSS for design contributions. Slides in Keynote file: https://bit.ly/EF-open-up-2020 @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Hi, I’m Eriol. (Ehh-roll). They/Them pronouns. 10 years in digital product design & UX. 7 years in humanitarian sector 2 years in (FL)OSS. PhD student researching how designers interact with OSS. Designer at Open Food Network @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Open design is… A way for designers who want to tackle big societal problems by contributing to humanitarian open source software (OSS). But when it comes to OSS, designers often don’t know what they can do to contribute and how to do it. Open Design created a set of methods, tools, examples and workshop frameworks and tested these at 4 events located in Berlin, Seattle, Bangalore and Taipei. These were all created in the open to encourage designers to learn, iterate, adapt and modify to better understand the principles of OSS participation. We used Ushahidi’s Crisis Communication OSS tool TenFour to test how these worked and to benefit from design OSS contributions. https://github.com/Erioldoesdesign/opendesign @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign https://www.tenfour.org/
Getting ready for designers in your OSS. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Getting collaborative! The ‘workspace’ in Miro http://bit.ly/open-up-2020 @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Adding design into your readme and contributor guides. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Including design in the read me. https://github.com/ushahidi/tenfour/blob/develop/design-contributions.md Making an explicit design section on your read me, or in your contribution section and simply asking for help is better than not having it. ‘Perfect is the enemy of good enough’ in this regard. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
@opendesignis @erioldoesdesign https://pa11y.org/contributing/designers/
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Design labels and design issue discovery. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Clearly explained labels in your readme are essential. https://github.com/ushahidi/ tenfour/blob/develop/README.md @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign https://github.com/ushahidi/tenfour/blob/develop/README.md
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Good first design issues. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
A good first design issue: ‘Empathy map’. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Empathy Mapping. Build empathy for your group What it is used for: Empathy Mapping helps us consider how other people are thinking and feeling. It builds empathy and gains alignment around user needs, goals, and pain-points. Whats the purpose: To zoom out from focusing on behaviours to consider the users’ emotions and experience as well. Mural template: http://bit.ly/OD-Empathy-Map @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign Design activities
Design activities @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
A good first design issue: ‘Sticker sheet’. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
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Other good first design issues. Brad Frosts’ Design interface inventory https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/conducting-an-interface-inventory/ Heuristic analysis https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Things we didn’t have time for :( @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Design sprint framework. Design templates for activities. Rapid Prototyping guidance. Remote/Online participants. User testing in Open Design. Choosing design tooling. Leading open design workshops. Mentoring and skill sharing. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
A community of supportive designers in open source opensourcedesign.net @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
Thank you! Thanks to Adobe fund for design, Designit and Ushahidi for funding, supporting and hosting the initial phase of Open Design. Thanks to Open Source Design, Simply Secure and Newcastle University for supporting the next phase of Open Design. Open Design is still seeking funding for the next phase in supporting more OSS projects to work with design as an open source contribution. Contact opendesignis@gmail.com for more details. @opendesignis @erioldoesdesign
In this active 20 minute talk we’ll start with the basics of how you can get your OSS project set up to encourage and receive design contributions.
We’ll use previous example OSS projects that Eriol has worked with and a live example project to look at how we can improve the repositories contribution documentation, readme, labels and good first design issues.
I recommend you come with your OSS project repository ready and open to editing your documentation as we go through the talk.
for free. You
can too.