Background
With Wikimedia Design System as one of the biggest open source projects on design side at the Foundation, it seems to be an opportunity to share the resources out where designers go: the “Figma Community”.
Originally commented by @RHo at Designer Workshop:
In terms of sharing externally, we could consider publishing the master design file with version marker as a Community file on Figma: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040035974-Publish-Community-files
Blockers
- Clarifying legal questions, specifically around licensing: Would we give up some rights to the Codex Figma resources by sharing them there?
- As every publicly shared, and specifically open-sourced resource, it only thrives by responding to comments. If we set out to share this as Wikimedia Foundation, we would need to ensure to have capacities to respond to community.
Open questions
- Which libraries or Figma files do we want to share with the community?
- Components library: Codex, OOUI or both?
- Assets library (icons, logos and illustrations)
- Design Tokens library (Figma styles)
- Component’s exploration file template
- Do we need a Wikimedia-Design account to share these Figma files with the community as @materialdesign does?
- Decide how often each library or Figma file will be updated