Voices of UX

Pattern-Flyer article topics

The PatternFly community is what makes it special. Here’s how to make your voice heard.

Katie Edwards

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PatternFly

4 min readOct 12, 2023

If you’re passionate about open source, user experience, or PatternFly, and you’re looking for a place to voice your thoughts, you’ve come to the right place. Here on PatternFly Medium, we cover all things UX — from your experience using PatternFly, to how UX relates to the world and media, to open source endeavors… the possibilities are endless.

Whether you’re a designer, developer, content designer, or researcher, we want to hear from you.

Want to be featured on PatternFly Medium, but don’t know where to start? Have no fear — we’ve got topics and topic examples to get those creative juices flowing.

To user experience… And beyond!

We love to relate our daily experiences back to our work. Whether it’s a video game with great UX design, an app that you think could be improved, or even some tips and best practices for getting the job done well, if it relates at all to UX, it’s perfect for PatternFly.

UX topics can include:

UX design, development, research, or writing
Accessibility, usability, and diversity in UX
Learning opportunities
Case studies
Observations of UX in your daily life

Published UX articles:

Accessibility and inclusion

What’s UX if it doesn’t apply to all users? People come in all different shapes, sizes, interests, and abilities — and we’re passionate about creating things that work for all of them. If you have a hot take on accessibility practices, want to share your experiences (positive or negative), or have worked on a project where you accessed or improved accessibility, you’ve found your people.

Accessibility topics can include:

Case studies
Tips + guidelines for improving accessibility
Personal and professional experiences

Published accessibility articles:

Open source values

We’re passionate about open source. If you didn’t know, PatternFly is basically our way of making Red Hat design patterns accessible to all. Us Red Hat designers use PatternFly on the daily to create new products and features, and we couldn’t keep it all to ourselves. Open source tools, products, and projects are great resources for daily use and for building writing, development, and design skills — which is why pretty much any open source topic will fit right in here.

Open source topics can include:

Open source thoughts and best practices
Tips and ideas for working the open source way
Open source UX

Published open source articles:

UX writing

The UX Content Design team runs PatternFly’s Medium account. Who would have guessed, right? We’re word nerds — and any UX-meets-writing content is met with open arms here.

UX writing topics can include:

Tips + best practices for writing within the UI
UX content design working processes
Writing as a visual designer
Case studies and real-life observations

Published UX writing topics:

PatternFly use cases

You’d be mistaken if you thought that we didn’t love to hear people talk about us. We’re open source, not saints. If you’ve contributed to PatternFly and want to show off the results, or used PatternFly for a project, whether you improved microcopy with our content guidelines, used React code to populate a design, or used the design guidelines to inform your usage of those components, we want to hear about it. (We’ll even take constructive criticism! Maybe we are saints, after all.)

PatternFly topics can include: