E65: Bringing Designers & Developers Together with Open Source Penpot

Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz is Co-Founder & CEO of Penpot, the open-source design and prototyping platform. Their core open source project, also called penpot, has over 19K stars on GitHub. Penpot received a lot of attention from the spike in growth following the Figma / Adobe acquisition announcement. They've since announced an $8M fundraise led by Decibel Partners. In this episode, we discuss the importance of open standards in getting developers excited about design, why Figma users have been excited about Penpot,  building a community with design and developer personas & more!