“ I can’t code,
I can’t contribute.”
Designer misperception of participating in OS

200,000 open source solutions
1,000 enterprise ready

Many OS projects may not need interface design
.... but they need Design.

our evolution as designers
=
more engineering savvy

But where are the designers?
Learned Helplessness

Case study
Injecting Design
into an Open Source project
Juhan Sonin
26.Jun.08
results TBD until Beta 2 release, community adoption

Business We need a data collection service
Technical Current system was brittle, aging prototype,
required lots of engineering TLC to update
Design More customers asking for the service because of
the design and perceived business impact