Listen to the unfiltered inner worlds and experiences of Designers contributing to critical OSS projects in order to make your projects more accessible to designers and design contributions.

Prerequisite
A concept of what design is broadly beyond UI/UX/Graphics (but the talk covers that)

Outline
In October 2023 Superbloom.design published findings from 10-16 week diary studies reported by designers actively working on OSS contributions. The diary studies aim was to investigate some of the key questions relating to design in OSS and fill some of the larger systemic “gaps” of information from non-code contributors’ experiences in OSS. There is existing research about designers in open source, but it has focused on analysis of data on issue trackers or interviews with designers.

This session will cover an overview of the study, some of the key learnings and recommendations from Superbloom Designers on how to improve and progress design in OSS.

Learning Objectives
- Understand the aspects of OSS that designers find the most challenging
- Experience OSS pains from the perspectives of designers
- Learn the specific format of feedback for design success in OSS
- Understand how an OSS project wants to be entered and exited by designers.
- Learn how to speak the language of design in order to make your OSS project more usable and accessible for more users and contributors.

Experience level
Beginner