The most obvious thing is listening to your designers, if you are in industry and are lucky to have them. But with that said, it’s surprisingly hard to recruit

The most obvious thing is listening to your designers, if you are in industry and are lucky to have them. But with that said, it’s surprisingly hard to recruit designers to work on OSS projects, and I think you need to start out with a half-decent design before people who can actually help you will want to join on. So thank you for the input.