Help : How can a product designer contribute to ODK? :)

Hey everyone! I'm Eshaan Kaul, an engineer turned product designer. Current working at Flipkart (India's largest E-Commerce Company) where I'm working on lending solutions for India.

Before joining Flipkart, I was a designer at Playment, where I worked upon the data annotation crowdsourcing platform for autonomous vehicle companies.

I feel my past experience from Playment can be put to good use in ODK. Please help on how I can start contributing

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hey @Eshaan_Kaul :wave:

That's a great question! We've managed to involve product designers a couple of times in recent memory (on this call and this call). This involved a high level design crit for Collect and also some work on a mock up for a "reskin" and resulted in an effort to move towards Material Design which is currently in progress.

I've been experimenting with a design repo for Collect which you might find interesting. In there I've been working on a Style guide (using the Material Theme Plugin for Sketch), mockups/prototypes for new features and also user research.

In terms of upcoming help you might be able to provide, it would be really useful to pull in a designer on new features to help with mockups or to provide criticism on proposed changes. I'd say joining the Slack and introducing on both #collect-code (our Android app) and #central-code (our newer server) would be a good idea as that would be a good place for people to pull you into conversations. An example would be this discussion around a new user flow we're introducing.

Do you have any experience with conducting user research or writing research scripts? That might be another area you could help out in.

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This is designed for a process such as placing a unique patient ID code sticker on a printed form and then using the ODK Scan app to automatically link the encoded data with the other data elements on the form!