I made a short twitter thread of some ideas around this:

https://twitter.com/EriolDoesDesign/status/1233003736836059137?s=20

So y'all ready for a thread on #OpenSource Design contributions to #OSS?

I've had a lot of conversations with #designers ready to contribute but struggling to find OSS tasks and OSS that are ready for #design contribution.

Here's my thoughts, Let's GO!

#OSS maintainers, post on http://bit.ly/OSD-jobs when you think you want a designer to help. Doesn’t have to be exact, it can be ‘We think we have a problem with login page/how people use X part of our OSS tool’

The designers there can help you understand your needs.

#Designers! reach out to the #OSS projects you love. Search on @github and @gitlab search for things you like (e.g. Search: Refugee tech) look at @OpenCollect https://opencollective.com/discover

When you find a project, reach out to them. Email, message and build a relationship.

Ask yourself as a designer, do you have an idea of the kind of Open Source you'd like to contribute to? Something that will help with a particular skill you have or perhaps you feel passionately about a certain cause?

#Design in #OSS is still new and growing so we need to do advocacy as well as completing design issues in OSS repositories.

Support the OSS maintainers and developers to understand Clapping hands signwhatClapping hands signyouClapping hands signoffer!

Hint: It’s not just logos, icons and graphics Winking face

f you want to suggest a good first design issue for any #OSS project I recommend a Heuristic Analysis https://nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ this is a great way to help designers learn this process and also for OSS to learn where some gaps could be in their OSS.