@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.