I was one of the 66 people selected for the open-source software program (Outreachy.org) from a pool of 3500+ applicants from across the world.
As an Outreachy intern, under the guidance of my mentors Marie Nordin and Smera Goel, I revamped the Fedora Badge Template, designed the Official Badges Style Guide and worked on design issues along with creating many original graphics for the Fedora Badges Design Project.
From the Outreachy May 2022 Alumni page
The Fedora Project is an open source project that coordinates the development of the Linux-based operating system known as Fedora Linux. It is sponsored by Red Hat (which is primarily an IBM subsidiary), though about 65% of the project contributors are unaffiliated members of the community. In a sense, it is a project made by us and made for us.
The Fedora Design Team is Fedora’s in-house design agency that provides artwork, user experience, usability, and general design services to the Fedora project. One of the projects under the auspices of the design team was the Fedora Badges Design Project.
One of the Badges Design Guide pages I designed
Fedora Badges is a fun initiative, created sometime towards the end of 2012, to gamify the contribution experience and improve contributor engagement and participations for the overall development of the Fedora infrastructure.
The typical timeline for an Outreachy 2022 summer intern was from 30th May to 26th August, but I started early to pull the timeline a little back to adjust some time for college and intern season in the month of August.
My internship comprised of the following work:
The Fedora Badges came into existence in the late 2012, and the badge template stayed the same through the years. Overtime arose the need of a new badge template.
I explored 25 existing digital badges on different platforms in an attempt to get familiar with popular styles and discover the scope of improvement:
Learning from the research and discussing the previously identified improvements, I made a series of iterations. The most common feature in existing digital badges was the use of flat colours and a lack of unnecessary detail (minimalism).
A few of the iterations
In the new version, I reduced all the white space to lay more emphasis on the graphics.