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System project tends to have bad UI because system programmers live in terminal.

• capex 9y ago
  Agreed, but do you reckon its worth the effort to ask system programmers whether or not they'd be willing to accept UX contributions?
  • vitovito 9y ago
    You can always ask, but many programmers aren't going to be able to/don't have the desire to communicate with non-programmers in useful ways. I wrote about the problems open source projects often face getting design (and other non-technical) help they can use: http://opendesign.foundation/articles/import-designers/ http://opendesign.foundation/articles/import-designers/
    • capex 9y ago
      Your article highlights some of the key issues faced in this context, by both developers and designers. Fauxflake seems to be a completely developer oriented project, so there would probably be a marginal benefit from UX applied to it (of course docs and tutorials would make a difference). I think projects like Audacity that are meant to be used by the layman, probably stand to gain the highest with better design.