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Scott Jenson

There is far too much 'walking on eggshells" in #OpenSource, mostly because the power lies with the people that are the most easily offended. I've been clobbered for saying the "#UX of opensource isn't great". The advice is always the same:
* Go slow
* Don't rock the boat
* Make small changes

That is great advice, for a dysfunctional relationship. To be clear, I'm NOT saying be dictatorial! I'm saying we can't fix a system that doesn't want to be fixed.
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6 April at 7:26 | Open on social.coop
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d@nny "disc@" mc²

@scottjenson on the contrary, i often find more dictatorial maintainership regimes to be similarly less receptive to UX concerns

6 April at 16:48 | Open on circumstances.run
Martin Owens :inkscape:

@scottjenson

You mention maintainers, that's a curious word to use. Because it speaks of static and unchanging babysitting rather than positive and ambitious creation.

In Inkscape our ux design model is to make ux and design skills have the same respect as labor as any programmer. To give developers a way to ask for help and spaced for a ux team to exist and find itself outside of the shadow of code creation.

Adam Belis has done impressive things. Though I admit mostly with patience.

6 April at 18:40 | Open on floss.social
(on holiday) Multiverse Mike

@scottjenson

Pretty sure it was @laurenshof that coined the term "FOSS Brutalism Design" in a thread I once read and I am 💯 for this becoming a regularly used hashtag for this sort of stuff...

..so I'ma tag it here...

#FOSSBrutalismDesign

7 April at 14:47 | Open on toot.wales
Scott Jenson

This needs to be a blog post but:
1. The history of tech is littered with "this will change the world!"
2. e.g. TV, ATMs, CD ROMs,, AI-in-the-90s, Internet
3. These things all had impact!
4. But it was **far** less than the freakout

Note: I'm not saying no impact! Just less than the hysteria.

The secret is seeing the real (and usually boring) impact vs the utopian/dystopian view. Often it's the combination (e.g. Mobile + Internet) that unlocks the bigger change.

It's never obvious

This needs to be a blog post but:
1. The history of tech is littered with "this will change the world!"
2. e.g. TV, ATMs, CD ROMs,, AI-in-the-90s, Internet
3. These things all had impact!
4. But it was **far** less than the freakout

Note: I'm not saying no impact! Just less than the hysteria.

The secret is seeing the real (and usually boring) impact vs the utopian/dystopian view. Often it's the combination (e.g. Mobile + Internet) that unlocks the bigger change.

8 Apr 2023 at 5:18 | Open on social.coop
penguin42

@scottjenson It could end each chapter with a page on VR.

8 Apr 2023 at 11:11 | Open on mastodon.org.uk
Neil Darlow :gotosocial: :silverblue: :xmpp:

@scottjenson I think, for the vast number of people, the only questions they want answered by technology are:

Can it do selfies?Can it do social media?
8 Apr 2023 at 11:56 | Open on fedi.darlow.co.uk
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