A thread by reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: , on missing professional-class-types within the fediverse communities
A thread by reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: , on missing professional-class-types within the fediverse communities
2/ • there are no or very, very few: • UX researchers, • UI designers, • illustrators, • industrial researchers, • QA specialists, • project managers, • strategists. This is bad! If you want to produce 'good' software that people will want to and like using, you need these people! Someone needs...
Here is a problem with most open-source software projects have, including most #Fediverse software —
• there are no or very, very few: • UX researchers, • UI designers, • illustrators, • industrial researchers, • QA specialists, • project managers, • strategists.
This is bad!
If you want to produce 'good' software that people will want to and like using, you need these people!
Someone needs to do these roles!
Some software developers can also do some of these roles. And that is awesome. But most software developers cannot
I see this same problem with a lot of #Fediverse software, too
The thing is, I know there are people with these skills — UX researchers, UI designers, illustrators, industrial researchers, QA specialists, project managers, strategists — who want to get involved with #openSource projects.
But they don't know how.