Hi Tom, I completely agree with your thoughts on encouraging Design participation in open source projects. I am a part of an open source project where Interaction design is the basis of the project (www.itsme.it) and I know that the project could benifit a lot with designer participation. In the past, we extensively involved potential users, designers, developers to gain feedback on the design features and evaluate the concept. But now i am trying to understand how can I increase the partcipation of designers in the project to a greater level. We are launching a new interactive website in march, and thinking about opening up our design process inorder to discuss design features in greater depth.
I found these opensource projects that encourage designer participation aswell. http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project http://everaldo.com/crystal/ Would be nice to see more comments/ideas on the subject. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38371 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
