Why are designers relatively rare contributors to open source?
(I have a few ideas but I'm curious to hear others' 🤓)
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Design requires holistic, auteur-like thinking, which doesn’t fit well into incremental participation models of the open source world.
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Design systems are the beginning of the bridge between them
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It’s true, but I feel design systems (as the term is typically used in current trends) are pretty close to the surface in terms of depth-of-design-thinking. I wonder how to build systems which support pushing deeper in OSS.
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Maybe working on design systems can be a great “incremental participation” first step for a designer to later contribute more deeply/holistically? (Maybe that was what you were suggesting?)