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It's a wrap! A big thank you to all the participants, speakers and hosts who made #FOSSDesign 2026 not only possible, but also fun, inspiring and productive: @erioldoesdesign, Larissa Rodiga, Eileen Wagner, @imanijoy, Andy Betts, Dalai Felinto, @pablovazquez Vazquez, and Lahari Chowtoori.
More pictures and a little recap soon!
Recordings of the sessions will be online by the end of next week on our YT-Channel: https://lnkd.in/dfr2aE8p
Thanks to our partners @penpot and @opensourcedesign!
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3rd round:
1) fdroid testing: Was done!
2) Balancing newcomers and powerusers
- What are the effects of breaking workflows
- is it about giving up control?
- Are core values are followed?
3) Resources on opensourcedesign.net
- Highlighting projects that care for design(ers)
- What exactly do you want to work on?
- https://contribute.design/ and design.md
4) Being early adopters
- It might be rough at the beginning but what is done enables others to build upon
@fossdesign second round barcamp:
Onboarding design newcomers:
- by manual and/or by shift in community mindset?
- sharing knowledge of context is hard
- have relevant, non-essential tasks to start with
Low Telemetry research:
- review tutorials, social media etc.
- qualitative research
- which data would actually be needed which not?
community decision making
- communication about design
- vote by community on community suggestions
- balance specialization vs. involvement by everyone
Some highlights from the first round of #barcamp sessions at @fossdesign:
1) dealing with AI contributions:
- AI removes frictions from some tasks (and not from others)
- Think "Community over Code"
2) "Design team of one"
- Use an existing interface guideline.
- Remove distinction between bugs and features
- Grow your documentation based on peer's questions
3) Communicate with devs
- Demonstrate design craft
- Know enough about code to judge if an idea is possible
- Make allies among devs
Welcome to FOSS Backstage Design 2026! We're excited to have you join us for a day filled with great sessions and especially for our barcamp, where the design & UX community in Open Source comes together to share ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
Full schedule: https://26.foss-backstage.design/schedule/
Let's make it a fantastic day! 🎉
We're in the final stages of setting up FOSS Backstage Design 2026!
Happy to welcome you very soon.
Dalai Felinto and @pablovazquez share how they use mockups and prototyping with open source tools to help the design process at @Blender. The session goes over real examples of projects designed – from concepts on whiteboards, the initial low-file mockups all the way to high fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes.
Join us for this talk and much more on March 18! Few tickets left for #FOSSDesign in Berlin: https://26.foss-backstage.design/tickets/
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