394: Open Source Design ft. Joey Banks

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This week, we caught up with Joey Banks to talk about contributing to open source design. In the Sidebar, we ask Joey bonus questions about ramping up in a new job, the design advocate role, and being Twitter famous.

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Main Topic:

This week, we grabbed Joey Banks to help us answer a listener question. Joey is a product designer working on design systems at Twitter. Before this, he was a design advocate at Figma.

flyingjuggernaut asks on GitHub:

Why would a designer contribute to open-source design communities? What are the benefits for a designer to spend valuable time contributing to these? Do you contribute and if so, why? I can see entry-level designers contributing to gain some experience or projects for their portfolio but for designers that have been working for some time, apart from exposure or reputation, I can't make sense of it.

• Joey on Twitter
• @joey on Figma
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• Apple Design Resources
• Teehan+Lax
• Facebook Tools and Resources
• Hand Mirror from Rafael Conde
• Too Beautiful to Live Podcast

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Cool Things:

• Brian shared Screen Rant Pitch Meetings, a lovely playlist of sarcastic movie pitches that pokes fun in all the right ways.
• Marshall shared Olivia Rodrigo – start with drivers license.
• Joey shared HazeOver, a helpful macOS utility to dim distracting windows on the Mac.

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