[Sigia-l] Salt in Sugar

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> "A friendly developer who might not know so much but has good 
> intentions about user-centered design is 100x more valuable 
> and will get 10x more done than a hot shot designer who 
> thinks hes the coolest thing since Ajax."

Speaking as somebody who has, on a couple of occasions, tried to get
involved in some OSS projects on the UI design side, I'd say that's the
way things are pretty much (at least for smaller projects). If you
contribute code or fix bugs then that's doing something tangible for the
system in development. In submitting wireframes or mockups of (possibly
fictional) functionality that somebody then has to build, it is very
hard not to just get ignored unless you actually roll up your sleeves
and do the presentation layer yourself.

Perhaps it was just my approach as a hotshot UXCD design guru expert
type person that got me ignored.

Jonathan


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