Its worse than recruiting. The main issue is foss projects work poorly with designers. Even if you have good designers their powers tend to diminish. Once any

Its worse than recruiting. The main issue is foss projects work poorly with designers. Even if you have good designers their powers tend to diminish. Once any disagreement comes up if you cant code, if you cant PR it… wont happen. Also design is super hard to modularize and split into small pieces. With code random anybody can come and build/fix a feature. Not possible with design. Its mostly big picture work where you need to have deep context and follow it to get desired consistency. For projects like OS gui that requires huge commitment (most likely full time). But i think copying existing well made software can make this a lot easier. Just need to be very diligent about it and not ashamed (and its a lot less creative work).