] Ricardo explains what brought him into the world of open source design, and how he’s bringing his curiosity, openness, and sense of sharing to design.

] We hear how Ricardo uses Figma for his work.

] Ricardo describes how he sees open source design as a community.

] We find out more about what Ricardo meant when he mentioned open sourcing creative storytelling, and he talks about the book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

] Ricardo talks about the onus of open source communities and how we have the power to bring transparency to the process.

] We hear how Ricardo got into his teaching career.

] Django explains how designing is much like painting.

] Ricardo shares with us his passion of working with design systems or thinking in systems, and he mentions a great book to read called, Thinking in Systems.

] We find out what Ricardo’s ever-recurring career goals are.

] Ricardo tells us about a podcast he writes for called, Full Hearts.

] “Honestly, it’s curiosity that led me to open source design.”

] “The open source community is tight, integrated, curious, intelligent, driven, and passionate to advance the collective.”

] “I continue to believe in Mozilla’s mission that they have about net neutrality, and turning everyone into creators of the web, not just consumers of the web.”

] “The more time I’ve spent in this industry the more I realize that skills are not what lead you to impact change as much as storytelling.”

] “The value of open source is about discovering opportunities.”

] “Thinking in systems and design systems also allow you to do something very similar with a goal of understanding first and then being able to execute in a very rigorous way.”

] “The purpose of a system is to solve problems and create desirable futures.”

] Ricardo’s spotlight is Raycast and a Things Extension by Loris.

] Django’s spotlight is Penpot.