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+<div align="center">
+<a href="https://contribute.design"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ZoPpMsS.png" /></a>
+  <h1>.design guidelines</h1>
+  <p>How to successfully contribute ideas and thoughts to the contribute.design example repository.</p>
+</div>
+
+## 👋 Create issues before PRs
+
+Please create issues for your thought and add a `design: 💡 idea` label to them. We will follow those isseues closely and foster a fruitful discussion.
+
+## ❤️ Share your flows, materials and experiences
+
+Feel free to start discussions around anything that is relevant for you as a designer to effectively contribute towards a projects success.
+
+No matter if it's tooling, required materials or other thoughts.
+
+## 💅 Materials
+
+We will make sure to add materials as we go. But for now feel free to browse through our example guides and suggest improvements 😀