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πŸ™Œ OpenSource & Design collaboration made easy. All through a simple, yet powerful folder in your project.

Welcome to the contribute.design repository

All you need for design engineering collaboration on open source projects
Made with ❀️ by designers and developers for developers and designers

Design contributions for contribute.design

Table of contents

  • Table of contents
  • ❀️ contribute.design
  • πŸš€ For Open Source projects
  • πŸ’… For designers
  • 🌲 contribute.design projects
  • 🚒 Contributing and running contribute.design locally

❀️ contribute.design

Our goal is to foster and enable design contributions and collaboration with Open Source projects.

We care about:

  • Collaboration
  • Transparency
  • Open-source

πŸš€ For Open Source projects

If you're an Open Source project looking for designers – we can help you to get exposure and ultimately designers contributing towards your project.

Get your project ready for design contributions
  1. Add your .design folder with some guidelines to your repository. See examples
  2. Add a contribute.design badge to your README.md
[![contribute.design](https://contribute.design/api/shield/<GH_USER>/<GH_PROJECT>)](https://contribute.design/<GH_USER>/<GH_PROJECT>)
  1. Your project will automatically be added to our database and get exposure to hundreds of talented designers.

πŸ’… For designers

If you're a designer looking for Open Source projects to contribute to – we can help you get infront of the most exciting projects and impact millions of users.

Get your project ready for design contributions
  1. Browse through the projects in our database
  2. Read through their design guidelines and start contributing!

🌲 contribute.design projects

It might look simple at a glance but our setup contains a lot of different services and parts. If you want to learn more about the technical details – check our contribution guidelines.

  • .design/ -Β provides you with some basic guidelines of how we intend to run our design process and relevant information on all the things we design
  • Frontend - the frontend is part of the monorepo and using styletron + a custom baseweb wrapper - Read more
  • API – The backend is part of the monorepo and accessing it's data from Cloudflare KV - Read more
  • Scrapers - We're using cloudflare workers to scrape repos and store them in KV - Read more
  • Design guideline examples - We have a dedicated repository with some sample design guidelines for you to integrate.

🚒 Contributing and running contribute.design locally

Check our design guidelines and contribution guidelines