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Definitely, but I look at it from the direction of "No one has pulled in the good UX/UI people to do open source work" and that's simply a social/culture proble
by freshhawk 10y ago
Definitely, but I look at it from the direction of "No one has pulled in the good UX/UI people to do open source work" and that's simply a social/culture problem.
I also think it's completely fixable, because all the reasons to do open source programming work apply to UI/UX work. Getting your work in front of a lot of people, gaining experience and notoriety, getting to scratch your own itch.
There just was no Linux for design people to jump start that culture. And Mac's always had such nice design that they didn't have as many itches to scratch.
- pjmlp 10y agoMainly because of culture differences. Good UX/UI people don't bother to pay for their tools, like in most professions, and prefer to work in software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Maya, Poser, you name it instead of constrain themselves to "worse is better" just to feel good. So in the end, most don't feel the need to join any FOSS community and rather build their portfolio on online design galleries and magazines.
- edraferi 10y ago> Good UX/UI people don't bother to pay for their tools, like in most professions, and prefer to work in software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Maya, Poser... Doesn't Adobe continue to charge big $$$ for Creative Cloud? I don't understand how these statements mesh..
- pjmlp 10y agoYes it does. "Don't bother" as in like most professionals they see a value in paying for their tools and don't mind having to pay them.
- diyorgasms 10y agoJust FYI that's basically opposite how the phrase "doesn't bother" is idiomatically used in at least American English.
- pjmlp 10y agoThanks for the hint. I am not native English speaker.
- infinite8s 10y agoYou want to say "are not bothered to pay for their tools"