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As a professional designer who's spent more time in my life developing FOSS than designing, I generally see FOSS projects refusing to accept design input, period. I've thought a lot about why and I see two broad problems: First, developers have a different fundamental perspective on interfaces than most people. They view interfaces as a wrapper that you use to interact with the important part: the application. To reg…
I definitely agree with these two major pain points. It relates to some of my personal experience as well, you would have to effectively solo an entire design markup just to potentially get key FOSS members on board with design changes. You have the same problem when trying to show an early mockup to a paying client, they keep picking at things that aren't going to be that way in the final, so you wind up rarely invo…
Re: What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
#291Yeah... the big difference with paying clients is that they know there's a need, and they know they can't do it themselves (even if they incorrectly think they know enough to judge why.) Working with FOSS is essentially cold-calling clients having done a design proposal upfront.