Why are designers relatively rare contributors to open source?
(I have a few ideas but I'm curious to hear others'
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Replying to @devonzuegel
Design requires holistic, auteur-like thinking, which doesn’t fit well into incremental participation models of the open source world.
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Replying to @andy_matuschak @devonzuegel
Holistic approach/thinking is not incompatible with executing/evolving in smaller steps
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Replying to @adrianmg @devonzuegel
Yes, that’s true, and great designers do make use of that fact! Requires very “4-D chess” mindset on the part of the designer, though, which does represent a barrier to entry.
2:27 AM - 22 Nov 2018
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