Re:The Decline of Usability
by lmm on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:56PM
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Good designers don't work for free. It's kind of strange that programmers have a culture of working for free (or at least of employers agreeing to open-source contributions), but we do, so gnarly algorithms get open-sourced all the time.
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We developers write something for free because we need it. Even if we build something awful we still use it and maybe open source it. Then maybe we improve the UI but it's not our job so we're not good at it.
A designer that can't code will never start a software project so I guess that it's uncommon for them to get involved in one for free.
Then there are developers and designers involved in open source because their companies pay them for that. Gnome's designers are listed at https://wiki.gnome.org/Design#Team_Members
Two of them work at Red Hat, one at Purism, I didn't find any immediate affiliation for the other two.
In addition: If you know a tool well enough that you can design an intuitive UI for it, you don't need it.
> Good designers don't work for free.
Is there any company employing them ? Because i find the user interfaces from the 80-90 even 00 much more usable that the today's crap. Remember help buton ? Remember buttons ? Why does windows 10 looks the same and behaves worse than windows 1.0 ?