Hey #foss /#opensource community, how do you source skillsets outside of your core dev team's wheelhouse, be that volunteer or paid?
@DProofreaders is embarking on a proofreading UI redesign and the dev team doesn't have deep #UX expertise. What we do have are two existing ~20-year-old UIs, a laundry list of requested improvements, and a very opinionated community.
Any suggestions on how you find someone to help you wrangle that?
And like many OSS projects, ours is entirely volunteer run. I'm not against paying someone (people should be paid for their work!) but it's likely to come out of my pocket which aren't leagues deep for this.
@gairdeachas What level of expertise are you looking for? There are a lot of just-graduated UX folk that might be interested in a “real” project they could add to their portfolio as they job-hunt. The university of Toronto near me has a summer intern program for their masters of information UX program, which is really good. (I’ve hired a number of people from there).
Although if you are talking full redesign, I’m guessing you want someone with more experience.
@jvschrag Some just-graduated UX folks would likely be a huge help vs going it all on our own (and I do think it could be a good portfolio builder). Part of the problem is I don't know what I don't know -- or rather as a dev I know I don't know enough about this.
I suspect we'd benefit most from someone who could help us look at our current UIs (remember: 2 of them), our most-important feature requirements, and distill that down into some mockups we could discuss with the community and iterate.
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