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I would like to help an open-source project with UI design and UX design. I have over 18 years of experience in the field and have worked with desktop and mobile software on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Windows Mobile/Windows Phone. Unfortunately my knowledge of Linux is very limited but I'm eager to learn. Could you help me find a project? @thelinuxEXP @linux @macrumors @windowscentral @windows

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I think that one of the projects that needs it the most right now, a complete overhaul, is FreeCAD.

It needs a good, competent UX designer. Nothing has changed UX wise for like 6 years. Everyone who begins to use it quits saying that it is the biggest hurdle.

It is literally the only real classical FOSS CAD software and they have no UX designer as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

@JustEnoughDucks thanks for pointing that project out, my husband is a heavy CAD user so he could help test it too. I'll look into it, see how I could help.

[–] unodostres 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have my vote for freecad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think that FreeCad will have it UX/UI design resolved for good as the software relies heavily on workbenches developed by third parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subjective take: there's worse than FreeCAD - sure it's a bit "old school" but it's bearable. O. The other hand, the solver has crashed on me so many times... The workbench way of doing things requires some time to get usdmed to, sure, but a crashing solver is far worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I get that. I have been making a flight stick with a bunch of curves. There is a ton of problems with solving and the utilities still, especially TNP, midpoint creation, subtractive pipe solving, and QoL things.

However, there are already devs working on it and now a private company devoting resources to it recently. What they still don't have is a UX designer, purely from a resource standpoint.

The solver can definitely be done in parallel. A UX designer can not necessarily just as easily just as well work on multithreaded FEM solver debugging, curved surface resolution, etc... it is a different resource.