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I feel like people should contribute to market actually free/open source projects more. I think it’ll have a snowball effect, of more users, more donators/software contributers, and reach.
While more donations and contributors are always welcome, the thing open source projects really need to break through are project leaders and UX designers to polish the software to make it more appealing.
Blender has come a long way in recent years by concentrating on these. There are also excellent videos by Tantacrul about his work on Musescore and Audacity after he made a video about Musescore and they got in touch with him to fix the problems he brought up.
Well then ask why UI/UX people don’t tend to help out with open source projects. I assume those people are far less idealistic. Which is why I have little respect for them.
The real answer is that the techie nerds willing to learn git and contribute to open source projects are likely to be hobbyist programmers cutting their teeth on bugfixes/minor feature enhancements and not professional programmer-designers with an eye for UI and the ability to make it/talk with those who can. Also in open source projects its expected that the contributor be able to pull their own weight with getting shit done so you need to both know how to write your own code and learn how to work with specific UI formspecs. Delegating to other people is frowned upon because its all free voulenteer work so whatever you delegate ends up eating up someone elses free time and energy fixing up your pr.
In one of the Tantacrul’s videos he says that UI/UX people do try to help and share their expertise, but the programmers running the projects ignore them or are actively dismissive, so they give up.
https://youtu.be/12TJ-zTgiH0 Around 16:20
This is sooo true! We often forget that there are professionals who need a specific UX so their workflow doesnt get hindered.
Open source maintainers need to realise the value of UX, not just “freedom” too…
Youre absolutely right… but it also starts with US, and educate people about the importance of opensource…