Welcome to Learning Cycles
Welcome to the very first entry to our small, yet ambitious Open Library project. As part of Penpot Ambassador Program, we’ve introduced a unique feat called “Learning Cycles”. These cycles focus on evergreen topics and help our ambassadors both learn and share things with their communities.
For the first year, we’ve picked the learning cycles ourselves. However, moving forwards, we want to form a community council who will get together at the end of each year and go over the insights, check the buzzing topics within the industry and then collectively decide on the next year’s learning cycles.
Following each cycle, Penpot Ambassadors will then create their topics under this category and share valuable, first-hand insights about each learning cycle. What will these look like?
- How their audience reacted to the topic
- What were the key highlights in terms of relevance across the community
- Areas to improve in terms of both learning and sharing the topics
- Notes for future viewers to help any visitors getting started
- Photos, videos, guides, useful resources.
With that, let’s see what 2026’s learning cycles will look like:
Q2 - Penpot 3.0
The excitement is there and we are not far away now. Whether you are familiar with Penpot or a newcomer, we know Penpot 3.0 will be a big topic. More importantly, we know our ambassadors will get lots of questions on it.
This is why we’ve picked Penpot 3.0 as the first learning cycle topic. Rest assured, you won’t be seeing a lot of product based learning cycles moving forwards.
Q3 - Contribution in open-source design
The goal for this cycle is to break down the stigmas around open-source design and focusing on how to get started with the first contributions, as well as finding projects to contribute to.
On top, Penpot Ambassadors in the future will actively keep an eye on open-source projects they can guide their communities to.
Q4 - Tokenization
The main angle on this learning cycle will be not to introduce design tokens, but more approaching it from a “using it as the bridge between designers and developers” as well as “a single source of truth”. Expect design systems of all scales, sizes, variants, but more importantly, how to speak the same language throughout your entire processes.
We cannot wait to see all the different but also common insights we’ll discover together and share with each other.
