Who’s Afraid of Open Design?

A design process can be extraordinarily structured, or entirely missing. Either way, it often requires a remarkable number of conversations with all the stakeholders involves, including people from different departments and the users.

But, what does happen when we add the unpredictable power of a community? In this talk, I’ll share my thoughts, fears and views on working for an open-source product.

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2. Who's Afraid of Open Design? EMANUELA DAMIANI ~ UX SALON ~ MAY 6, 2018
3. Elio Qoshi Open Source Designer and Many Others Things
4. “ Elio Qoshi Open Source Designer and Many Others Things An Open Source Designer shouldn't be worried about getting forked
5. Emanuela @brassy Working at UX designer for
6. 5.8% of market share in Israel StatCounter Global Stats Desktop Browser Market Share in Israel - April 2018
7. 5.8% of market share in Israel StatCounter Global Stats Desktop Browser Market Share in Israel - April 2018
8. 5.8% of market share in Israel StatCounter Global Stats Desktop Browser Market Share in Israel - April 2018
10. Story time
11. 2 years ago…
12. I got the job!
13. yep, I looked up on the Internet.
14. “ ghacks article July 29, 2013 So this is your idea of a great user interface, Mozilla?
15. “ A random guy on reddit 5 years ago Is it just me or has Firefox become a piece of sh*t?
16. TABS
17. TOOLBARS
19. ROUND CORNERS
20. TABS
 ON THE TOP
21. ADD-ONS ANYONE?
22. Your user base will always react to your design decisions
23. More common that we think
25. “ Not to diminish the great work by @elioqoshi but is there anyone else whom has graphical talents and want to do a proposal for a logo?
26. “ I still would love to get a real designer to make sure it (type) is near perfect.
28. There is a problem when we talk about design
29. What process apply? Who takes the decision?
30. It seems easier with code
31. Working in the open requires work
32. Resources Tools Platforms
33. Resourcers
 enable the community to re-use what already exists
34. Design System, 
 a product servings other products
35. Does your company have a pattern library or a style guide?
36. Make the right choice the easiest choice
37. tweet…
38. design system is a shared language
39. increase collaboration
42. Tobias Bernard interaction designer on the GNOME project
44. Tools
 enable the community to create new things
45. design tokens, design decisions make it easy to implement
46. design
 decision
47. token data (.JSON) design
 decision
48. iOS Web token data (.JSON) design
 decision token data (.xml) Android token as variables (.css) token as variables (.sass)
49. iOS Web token data (.JSON) design
 decision token data (.xml) Android token as variables (.css) design system website npm module sketch color palette keynote color palette addons website token as variables (.sass)
50. iOS Web token data (.JSON) design
 decision token data (.xml) Android token as variables (.css) design system website npm module sketch color palette keynote color palette the next hot thing! addons website token as variables (.sass)
53. Not just code
56. Platforms
 facilitate the conversation between you and the community
58. From Add-Ons to Web-Extensions
59. “ The Road to Firefox 57 – Compatibility Milestones February 16, 2016 Firefox 57, November 14th release - Firefox will only run WebExtensions
60. “ Do not deprive us of freedom with an overprotective idea. Please truncate past assets early and do not involve us in a self-suicide suicide.
61. “ I want to add my voice to many other voices all expressing the same idea. XUL and SDK add-ons are currently one of the very few remaining reasons me and many other users stay with Firefox.
63. Communication is the key
64. Tell positive stories
67. The winners of the will be announced on Tuesday, May 8
68. Blogs Bug trackers Social Networks
69. GitHub
70. Not all your users are part of your community
71. Bugzilla
72. Bugzilla
73. But all your users can
 join your community
74. Reddit
75. Listen to the user. Sure, but how?
77. “ So I restarted the browser a few moments ago and was instantly hit with this new quantum crap. I cannot stand how it looks, I cannot get use to it, I literally hate everything about it.
78. “ Is it possible to get rounded tabs in Firefox 57? The current tabs are so square they really disturb me…
79. “ Is it possible to get rounded tabs in Firefox 57? The current tabs are so square they really disturb me…
80. “ Is it possible to get rounded tabs in Firefox 57? The current tabs are so square they really disturb me…
87. Am I still afraid of open design?
88. “ The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H. P. Lovecraft