Accelerating Open Source software development with OnlyDust

OnlyDust is accelerating the pace of open source innovation by removing barriers for developers and projects alike, simplifying onboarding, tracking impact, and rewarding meaningful work. We joined OnlyDust in early 2025 as their ongoing design team, helping sharpen their product experience and put a greater focus on project discovery and Developer Experience.

Getting a developer into OnlyDust for the first time is its own design problem. The platform is powerful, but that power needs a clear entry point. We designed an onboarding flow that establishes what OnlyDust is, surfaces the right first steps, and sets up the contributor for their first meaningful interaction with a project.

Project maintainers have a different job than contributors. We designed a dedicated view for maintainers, giving them visibility into their project's contributor activity, open issues, and community health separate from the contributor experience but consistent with the same design system.

A contributor's profile is their open source CV. We designed it to surface what matters most: contributions, languages, projects, and impact in a way that feels earned rather than assembled. Something worth sharing.

The full OnlyDust experience, taken to mobile. We designed across the core flows discover, project view, profile ensuring the experience holds up on smaller screens without stripping out what makes the platform valuable.