Open Source

Open Design Ownership: Why You Need a License – and What Kind to Use

Copyright for Designers Working in the Open: From Creative Commons to MIT licenses. What are you allowed to do with other designers' material and at what point does the inspiration become plagiarism.

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Dec 16

What is Open Design?

If you're a designer or someone who's come close to any type of design process, chances are you've used some of the open design tools and...

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Dec 07

Over 30 years ago, before the iPhone and Netflix, the Web was introduced as a democratizing force to enable the sharing of information between anyone in the world. Built on free and open technologies, it was like a '

Ditte Hvas Mortensen

Nov 21

Designing in the Open

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Anushka Jain

Nov 03

Open Source

Democratising Design Education with a Web Monetized Publishing Platform — Grant Report #1

Overall, we found our project to be very ambitious, but thanks to the extension on our project timeline, it's looking in an excellent position. Some big wins were:

Graeme Fulton

Oct 10

Open Source

Design Education

The Future Of Design Is Open Source

How Figma made Open Design a thing, and a look to the future of open source design tools, like Penpot!

Graeme Fulton

Sep 21

product design

Web5 is here. Goodbye Web3? TBD.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block, just launched 'Web5' with his company, TBD. Web5 is a decentralised web platform that puts users in control of their identity and data. So Web5, like Web3, aims to solve the problem of identity.

Rob Díaz

Jun 10

product design

Web

Imagining an Ad-Free Internet: Web Monetization for Designers

Web Monetization is the process of converting website views into revenue using open technology. What does it mean web design and developers?

Sophie Clifton-Tucker

Mar 16

Open Source

Web Monetization

The Freemium Web: You’ve Read All Your Free Articles This Month

The Source is a fortnightly letter from Prototypr for its community of ~600k viewers. Written by Sophie Clifton-Tucker, The Source tackles taboo topics, exposes unseen truths, and gets the scoop on the latest in the tech and design sphere. What do we want? Openly accessible, quality design content! When do we want it? Well, permanently, […]