Art and design

5 open ways to help UX designers and developers collaborate better

kriker — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

5 open ways to help UX designers and developers collaborate better kriker Wed, 04/26/2023 - 03:00

Designing with open decisions can help increase collaboration between user experience and dev teams.

Ideally, designers have a good relationship with their product team and users. However, the relationship between designers and developers is more difficult to build and…

Edit your photos with open source artificial intelligence

Don Watkins — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Edit your photos with open source artificial intelligence Don Watkins Sat, 04/15/2023 - 03:00

Upscayl is a free and open source program that uses open source artificial intelligence to upscale low-resolution images.

I've been interested in photography ever since I co-opted my father's Kodak 620 camera as a young boy. I used it to take pictures of the flora and fauna of our neighborhood…

Remove the background from an image with this Linux command

Don Watkins — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Remove the background from an image with this Linux command Don Watkins Mon, 04/10/2023 - 03:00

The power of Python makes image editing easy on Linux.

You have a great picture of yourself and want to use it for your social media profile, but the background is distracting. Another picture has a perfect background for your…

A search engine for Creative Commons

Don Watkins — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

A search engine for Creative Commons Don Watkins Sat, 04/08/2023 - 03:00

Find images and audio with open licenses.

Are you looking for content that is openly licensed that you can reuse? Then you might be interested in Openverse. Openverse is an innovative tool that searches over 300…

5 best practices for PatternFly, an open source design system

abigaeljamie — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

5 best practices for PatternFly, an open source design system abigaeljamie Fri, 04/07/2023 - 03:00

PatternFly is a design system with open code and an open community.

Have you ever admired the facets of a gemstone? The angles and slants are a thing of beauty. You can see that a multi-faceted gemstone shines brighter than a flat one. You may…

Make a web-safe color guide with Bash

Jim Hall — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Make a web-safe color guide with Bash Jim Hall Thu, 04/06/2023 - 03:00

Use the for loop in Bash to create a handy color palette for the web.

When computer displays had a limited color palette, web designers often used a set of web-safe colors to create websites. While modern websites displaying on newer devices can…

3 reasons my Linux team uses Penpot

ekidney — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

3 reasons my Linux team uses Penpot ekidney Thu, 03/30/2023 - 03:00

Penpot is an open source design workspace for designers and developers.

Working with Fedora exposes you to a lot of different open source software. A major Fedora website revamp started over a year ago, with the goal of improving design aesthetics…

Open source tools for mind mapping

Amrita42 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Open source tools for mind mapping Amrita42 Fri, 03/24/2023 - 03:00

Use mind maps with open source tools to make an impactful presentation.

In today's world and social media, many people don't have the patience to read lengthy textual content. Visuals are a great way to capture your audience's attention span. Did…

Open source reimagines the traditional keyboard

luisteia — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Open source reimagines the traditional keyboard luisteia Sat, 03/11/2023 - 03:00

Is the current arrangement of keys on the keyboard the most efficient and intuitive solution? Open source aims to address this question with a circular one-handed keyboard.

After one-hundred years of evolution in typewriting capability, our keyboard layout remains essentially the same: A rectangular board with apparently random clustered keys…

How Wikipedia helps keep the internet open

srish_aka_tux — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

How Wikipedia helps keep the internet open srish_aka_tux Mon, 03/06/2023 - 03:00

Wikipedia embodies the spirit of the original vision of the internet, and you can be a part of it.

Wikipedia is one of the most significant open source software projects, in part because it's a lot bigger than you may realize. And yet anyone can contribute content, and…