# SustainOSS Design & UX Working group July discussion topic: Differentiation between design for open source and open design

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**Created:** [July 12, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustainoss-design-ux-working-group-july-discussion-topic-differentiation-between-design-for-open-source-and-open-design/1075 "2022-07-12T12:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/erioldoesdesign/32/142_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustainoss-design-ux-working-group-july-discussion-topic-differentiation-between-design-for-open-source-and-open-design/1075/1 "2022-07-12T12:06:00Z")

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Every month the Design & UX working group chooses a topic from the community to discuss - in July that was discussing the differentiation between design for open source and open design.

We had 4 folks on the community call but I also thought it’d be worth starting a topic here to have statements and questions come in.

Here are the notes from that discussion: [SustainOSS UX & Design Working Group - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_SLKyXFvz6yoeAAk_aDjWghS9e-yQCrt03-l4mojOTQ/edit#heading=h.y6wp1jlw7bs0)

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**Post date:** [July 13, 2022, 7:50am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustainoss-design-ux-working-group-july-discussion-topic-differentiation-between-design-for-open-source-and-open-design/1075/2 "2022-07-13T07:50:09Z")

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Thanks for sharing the notes. Interesting discussion. Maybe it’s helpful to identify some projects/communities that do some of these things really well and write case studies on them? So if another person/project/community wants to “do stuff more openly”, they can see exactly how it can be done, benefits & problems, and whether it fits their needs and wants.

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**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/erioldoesdesign/32/142_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/sustainoss-design-ux-working-group-july-discussion-topic-differentiation-between-design-for-open-source-and-open-design/1075/3 "2022-07-13T13:37:27Z")

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Absolutely - there are plenty of projects doing the open design and open source design side of things well and we actually have a place for that list here:[Case studies & examples](https://sustainers.github.io/design/examples/)

But we haven’t had many (any) submissions just yet but PR’s can be submitted to: [GitHub - sustainers/design: Inventory of design resources, best practices, and content about design contributions in Open Source](https://github.com/sustainers/design)