Designing Your Open-Source Project

Bryan Veloso

The problem

• Designers are picky
• Designers are stubborn
• Designers are just like you (developers)

Pixel perfection === PEP8 perfection Clarity through interface === clarity through documentation

A designer’s ability to code === nosql (things we bicker about)

Designers to developers: “make it work” Developers to designers: “make it pretty”

Recruiting a Designer

• Pitch it on github
• Find them on Dribbble
• The hallway track

To My Fellow Designers

• Open source is experiential
• Open source is crucial
• Make yourself known

Hybrids

• Universal translators
• Knowledge exchanges
• Find them, train them
• Learn from hybrids
• Pair with hybrids

Working with Designers

• Time investment
• They need space
• Restrictions and boundaries
• Death to spec work

Design matters to Django so design should matter to you.