Design ● OS ● Apps ● Whiteboards ● GNOME Shell ● System Settings ● How to contribute
GNOME Design Team
Contents
The GNOME UX Design Team is a group of individuals work on the design of the GNOME user experience and developer experiences. The primary areas of work are core OS design, core application design, and the visual theme and icons. Resources for each of these areas can be found below.
Getting Design Help and Advice
There are a number of ways that developers and maintainers can make contact with the design team:
Bugs can be tagged with the ui-review keyword
Contact the team on #gnome-design on irc.gnome.org
Providing Feedback and Design Ideas
Design issues with GNOME software should be reported in GNOME Bugzilla.
- More general feedback can be provided via specific module mailing lists.
- If you want to discuss a particular design issue, you can contact the design team on the #gnome-design IRC channel.
If you have design ideas of your own, you can post them on the playground page.
How to contribute
We are always looking for new design contributors, so please get in touch if you want to help
#gnome-design on irc.gnome.org is the primary communication channel for design
Read our contribution guide
Resources
Design Pages
OS - core operating system design documentation
Apps - application design documentation
System Settings - system settings design documentation
Whiteboards - for working notes and brain storming
Playground - an open space for design ideas and experimentation
Repositories
Active:
Mockups resources - templates and so on
Adwaita UI theme (part of GTK+)
Legacy:
Guidelines and Resources
Reading - books, articles and blogs about design, with an emphasis on relevance for GNOME and open source.
Design tools - includes details on the tool we use for mockups
One of the best ways to follow GNOME design is to subscribe to the relevant wiki pages. You can do this by adding the following to your GNOME Wiki notification settings:
GnomeLive:Design/.*
Team Members
Membership of the design team is informal, and there is no application process. Many GNOME contributors, including developers, are involved in design work. Key members of the design team include: