Open Source Designers

A community of practice for design & user experience people in Open Source

Members

  • Sharda Zoe
  • Günther Mulder
  • Allan Caeg
  • Andrew Eatherington
  • Máirín Duffy
  • Angelika Molly
  • Max Brady
  • Brolin Wolcott

A place to share experiences, projects, experiments, ideas, mental health breakdowns, successes and more with people who know what it's like

 

Welcome!

If you’re doing design & user experience work in an open source community, then chances are we have a lot in common – no matter what community we’re working in. We have some big challenges every day, but we also know that if we can overcome those challenges we can make a really big contribution to the sustainability and increased popularity of open source software.

The purpose of this site is to create a space where we can come together to share our experiences, to ask each other questions, to compare notes and to promote the projects we’re working on and help get some extra eyes on our work – and to act as a support network.

If you are interested in being a contributor to this project, please join our little network here and get involved!

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Leisa Reichelt

Wordpress 2010 Open Design Plan 3 Replies

very excited to see the Wordpress team are looking at ways to further open up their design process - take a look at the post here. 

Tagged: Wordpress

Started by Leisa Reichelt. Last reply by peter sikking Jan 25.

Leisa Reichelt

Project Verity - Another open design project

Mark Boulton and I are working on another small project that we're doing openly (mostly because it's a Drupal based project. We're working on an admin theme that aims to make Drupal as easy as possib…

Tagged: project, projectverity, drupal

Started by Leisa Reichelt Jan 15.

Leisa Reichelt

Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Open Design Project

have you seen this yet? http://passfail.squarespace.com/ it's not really an 'official' design project but is a really nice example of a bunch of designers jumping in to try to solve, together, a wide…

Tagged: airlines

Started by Leisa Reichelt Jan 15.

Leisa Reichelt

Introductions! 36 Replies

welcome to Open Source Designers - come say hello and introduce yourself!

Tagged: welcome

Started by Leisa Reichelt. Last reply by Calum Benson Jan 6.

Leisa Reichelt

Debriefing a design project with an open source community - ideas? 1 Reply

hi all, I'm looking for some inspiration. I've been doing some work with the Drupal community over the past 9 months or so on the UX for the upcoming Drupal 7 release. It was a big learning experien…

Tagged: debrief

Started by Leisa Reichelt. Last reply by peter sikking Jan 6.

Jakob Hilden

UX position at SugarCRM

SugarCRM, the Cuppertino-based company behind the open source CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system of the same name is looking to hire a "UI, Usability & AJax Specialist". Job descripti…

Tagged: job

Started by Jakob Hilden Jan 5.

Jakub Linowski

Looking for a PHP developer for fluidia

Hi, I'm looking for a server side developer (PHP, REST, MySQL, github) to join in and help out with a prototyping tool: www.fluidia.org. Here is the official post: http://wireframes.linowski.ca/200

Started by Jakub Linowski Dec. 8, 2009.

Rodders

Insurance: Online Servicing

I am currently doing a piece of work exploring the extent to which insurance companies offer ‘online servicing’: the ability to amend policy details, submit a claim etc online. I really keen to know…

Tagged: online, servicing, insurance, Online

Started by Rodders Nov. 26, 2009.

Roy Scholten

Another round of introductions perhaps?

Lot of people joining, not that much talk yet. Say hi and tell us a bit about your experiences with ux/design in open source. Which OS projects do you contribute too? Lots of Drupal people here I kno…

Started by Roy Scholten Nov. 20, 2009.

vicki moulder

UI Design sharing Illustator Files?? or not........ 5 Replies

Hi All, Does anyone have advice on sharing illustrator files? We are building wireframes in Adobe Illustrator - the two methods that are on the table for consideration are >build in one Illustra…

Tagged: visual, Illustrator, collaborative, design, UI

Started by vicki moulder. Last reply by Stefan Smagula Oct. 30, 2009.

Blog Posts

Brolin Wolcott

Expressing Yourself at 56k

Ah, dial-up. Those were the days. Before DSL, Cable, and satellite internet connections, even the most elite internet user had to deal with modems screaming demonic verses in tongues fit only for poor ears in hell. Boy, those were the days.

Clearly, I'm joking. Relative to the insanely fast, silent, digital protocols that today's modems speak, the decades stuck on dial-up are not missed. However,… Continue

Posted by Brolin Wolcott on February 4, 2010 at 4:55pm

pat griswold

Open Source and Cloud Computing

A client was asking if open source code could be distributed on a cloud hosting platform and not violate licensing? They are running some sort of open source call center software and want to distribute their workforce using satellite internet service providersContinue

Posted by pat griswold on January 21, 2010 at 5:00am

Robert Jolliffe

Been busy!

Been real busy, working on lots of sites, of which the website for Salisbury accountants Clifford Fry & Co is the latest.....

Christmas break couldnt come sooner.

Posted by Robert Jolliffe on December 22, 2009 at 3:04pm

Scott Weiss

Design in the Open: the Symbian^3 Widget Carousel


What you see here is from a YouTube video featuring a Symbian code prototype of a new way to manage and enjoy widgets for Symbian^3. This is t

Continue

Posted by Scott Weiss on December 17, 2009 at 2:37pm

Samuel Arendt

Exibindo o wordpress online só para você

Muitas vezes precisamos testar um tema ou uma alteração em um site mas não gostaria que esta visão estivesse disponível para outros usuários, em alguns casos o site é novo mas para o cadastro é importante a conferência visual para ver se está tudo correndo bem.

Neste exemplo vou ensinar como aplicar um redirecionamento ou, se preferir, uma tela de manutenção enquanto faz as atualizações ou cadastros necessários.

Leia o artigo completo:… Continue

Posted by Samuel Arendt on November 27, 2009 at 6:01pm

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