The document discusses open source design and why designers should contribute to open source projects. It provides examples of notable open source designs like icon libraries, design systems, illustrations, plugins, mockups and font libraries. Contributing to open source can provide career advancement, mentorship opportunities, experience with remote collaboration and building technical and soft skills. It also allows designers to get feedback, help drive user-centric development and maintain consistent style guidelines.

1. September, 2022
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Contributing To
Open Source
As A Designer
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2. What you’ll learn
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Ÿ Why Designers Should Contribute to Open Source
Ÿ Notable Examples of Open Source Designs and
Community
Ÿ Open Source Design in FOSS community
Ÿ What is Open Source Design?

3. What is Open Source Design?
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- Making your design project publicly available.
- Sharing your design process with FOSS communities
- Improving Brand identity and User Interface of Open
Source Softwares
- Publishing design systems with Open Source
Organizations
- Building free design tools, plugins, templates, mockups
etc.
Open Source Design

6. Why should
Designer
participate in Open Source?
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- Career advancement
confidence, team work
- Mentorship and job opportunities
- Remote work and collaboration experience
- Build technical and soft skills e.g communication,
- Broaden professional network
- Portfolio enhancement
How Open Source Can Add Value To A Designer

8. Open Source Design in FOSS
- Easier workflow and Iteration processes
- Broadens access to design resources
- Access to feedback and constructive
criticism
- Usercentric and efficient Product
development
- Consistent style guideline

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Notable Designs
Open Source
And Communitieses

10. Icon Libraries
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- Iconscout
- Fontawesome
- Twemoji
- Heroicons
- Ionicons
- Feathericons
Design Systems
Illustrations
- Google Material
Design
- Microsoft Fluent
Design
- IBM Carbon
Design System
- Manypixels
- Absurd Design
- Blush Design
- Openpeeps
- Undraw
- Ouch

11. Design Plugins
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- Iconify
- Unsplash
- Lorem Ipsum
- Remove BG
- LottiesFiles
- Figmotion
Mockups
Font Libraries
- Freepik
- Graphic Burger
- Unblast
- Mockup World
- Mockplus
- Pixeden
- Font Squirrel
- Font Library
- Google Fonts
- Font Source
- Font Space
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