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.

1. WHO’S AFRAID OF
OPEN DESIGN?
EMANUELA DAMIANI ~ CODEMOTION ROMA ~ APRIL, 13 2017

2. Elio Qoshi
Open Source Designer and Many Others Things

3. “
Elio Qoshi
Open Source Designer and Many Others Things
An Open Source Designer
shouldn't be worried about
getting forked

4. Emanuela
@brassy
Working at
UX designer for

5. Emanuela
@brassy
Working at
UX designer for

6. 15.2% of market share in Italy
StatCounter Global Stats (Desktop)
March 2018

8. Firefox Developer Edition
Sweet logo, right?

9. Story time

10. 2 years ago…

11. I got the job!

12. yep, I looked up on the Internet.

13. “
ghacks article
July 29, 2013
So this is your idea of a
great user interface,
Mozilla?

14. “
A random guy on reddit
5 years ago
Is it just me or has Firefox
become a piece of shit?

15. TABS

16. TOOLBARS

18. ROUND CORNERS

19. TABS
ON THE TOP

20. ADD-ONS
ANYONE?

21. Your user base will
always react to your
design decisions

22. More common that we think

24. “
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?

25. “
I still would love to get a
real designer to make sure
it (type) is near perfect.

27. There is a problem
when we talk about
design

28. What process apply?
Who takes the decision?

29. It seems easier with code

30. Working in the open
requires work

31. Resources Tools Platforms

32. Resourcers
enable the community to
re-use what already exists

33. Design System,
a product servings other products

34. Does your company have
a pattern library or a style guide?

35. Make the right choice
the easiest choice

36. tweet…

37. design system is a shared
language

38. increase collaboration

39. faster generation of experiments,
easier to create multiple variants

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
websitenpm
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
websitenpm
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. “
The Road to Firefox 57 – Compatibility Milestones
February 16, 2016
Firefox 57, November 14th release
- Firefox will only run
WebExtensions

59. “
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.

60. “
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.

62. Communication is the key

63. Tell positive stories

64. Tell positive stories

66. Blogs Bug trackers Social
Networks

67. GitHub

68. Not all your users are part
of your community

69. Bugzilla

70. Bugzilla

71. But all your users can
join your community

72. Reddit

73. Listen to the user.
Sure, but how?

74. “
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.

75. “
Is it possible to get rounded tabs in
Firefox 57? The current tabs are so
square they really disturb me…

82. Am I still afraid of
open design?

83. “
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

84. Questions?
Emanuela
@brassy on the internet