Community Over Code Europe 2024 - Documentation to Use Open Source Design Templates
In this session, Aparna Sundar shares best practices on the way to create bar raising documentation to guide users to use Figma and GitHub templates. To scale best practices in UX Research, designers of open source software create various design artifacts that can help software builders use and improve on the open source code and curated experience offerings. In this talk, she offers examples of OpenSearch research processes that can scale, documentation and creation of templates that designers and developers in the open source community can utilize in developing experiences for their users. Finally, she outlines best practices in developing documentation for the use of design templates such as the ones shared on Figma and GitHub. In this talk, Aparna shares examples of Figma templates offered to the open source community, and a way in which the open source community has utilized these in creating their software solution.