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I agree that UI in FOSS is often terrible, but as munaf mentions below, developers are becoming more design-minded and it's slowly changing. It's hard to get d
by reledi 15y ago
I agree that UI in FOSS is often terrible, but as munaf mentions below, developers are becoming more design-minded and it's slowly changing.
It's hard to get designers to contribute to FOSS, I don't know why. A lot of developers simply don't care or do care but don't know enough about design to do a great job (I fall in the latter category but I think I'm quickly improving).
The recent trend is that FOSS projects want to have good UI, but they need help. Designers don't need be involved with a specific FOSS project, they can for example create beautiful icons and openly release them.
Toolkits such as Bootstrap by Twitter and Foundation by ZURB have been a big help.
- lazerwalker 15y agoI think what's tough is that FOSS design generally ends up as design by committee, with a tendency towards introducing more configurability (and thus more complexity) as a means of appeasing everyone when dissension arises. From an engineering standpoint, that's part of what makes FOSS great. From a design standpoint, that sounds like a gig from hell.