contribute.design - Cohort #2 - Workers Launchpad Demo Day

Hello, I'm Michael from Contribute Design and we're trying to make open source software and design collaboration easy. The main problem is with open source software that they lack good design, right? They're all eager to get design on board but they, well, actually they struggle with it. And designers, well, they do have pretty nice jobs, day-to-day jobs, but most of them, you know, they just want to do something fun during their spare time and they don't know how. So we're trying to bring both worlds together. We're trying to enable open source software to know and write guides for designers to understand how to contribute to their project. We're also helping designers to identify projects which are eager for new contributions which, you know, they can impact. We're a pretty small team with a very large network on great designers and great open source projects. Well, for example, you know, we're having Mastodon as an open source software which is eager for good design guidelines and we're helping them to find designers to contribute to their open source software. Our ultimate goal and ultimate vision is to bring design and engineering closer together. We're trying to find ways to help them to work together, understand each other better and ultimately, not only helping open source software designers but also engineering and design in the long term to understand each other better. You know, if a designer contributes to open source software, he knows how to deal with engineers. He will have a way easier day-to-day job. If an engineer knows how to talk to designers, it's great for him in his day-to-day job too, right? So that's a gap we're trying to bridge.