[brundozer]

Exactly. It would be amazing to have some of the many incredible UX/UI designers out there help with open source projects like these. So many potential adopters are lost just because of the interface, no matter how awesome the software is.

[tclancy]

I feel like that’s the next step for open source, but it will take committed UX people who are also politic enough to sell developers doing things in their free time to use some more of that time to do things right.

[ethbr0]

> UX people who are also politic enough to sell developers

This, 100%. UX doesn't respect development because devs tend not to care about UX. Development doesn't respect UX because UXers tend not to care about development.

IMHO, devs tend to assume everyone is a programmer. And many people are very much not.

Which is why even graphical OSS tends to look and work like... git.

[rglullis]

"People working on open source are hobbyists doing it their free time" is such a tired idea.

Here is a thought: do you want committed UX people working on open source? PAY THEM!

If every developer set aside a budget of 5-10% they spend on proprietary services to contribute to the funding of open source projects, there would be enough to attract hordes of UX professionals.

It amazes me how much of a premium people for, e.g, Apple products yet can not plan to spare 5-10 bucks a month to support R&D of open source.