I work in web and educational design and we always have to keep accessibility in mind. It does limit the type of design we can do though, so it can be a bit frustrating as a designer. On my end I try to get the AA accessibility score, it's a good middle ground. I make sure to have good contrasts in my Headings, colours, add desciptions to images etc.
Yeah, as a designer I'm a mac user on my main work machine. A decade ago I installed some version of linux to revive and old laptop and it was... Ok. But I recently got a steamdeck with steamOS and I really love the look and customization of desktop mode, which made me look into different linux distros, comparing interfaces and it's true some of them look pretty cool. I think the main thing is to set it up as simple or as complicated as you need, the option to work without all the windows or macos bloat.
UI Design?
Hey all. Kinda new-ish to open source (always loved the idea, been using some of them for years, like VLC, audacity, handbrake, Firefox, etc) but started getting more and more into it recently, messing around with linux, running a NAS with various docker apps etc. I'm a designer, and one thing I noticed is how a lot of FOSS have terrible user interfaces. I know they are often made by engineers who focus more on functionality than design, but I also read some comments about doing kind of bad design on purpose. Like keeping things plain, boring, "function over form" kind of design. Is that a thing in the scene? I'm asking because I would like to get involved. I don't code but I could help with design assets, user interface design etc. I'd love some small projects to build a UI/UX portfolio slowly on spare time. Anyone knows where I should look to get projects I could get involved in?
Love mastodon but Bluesky has a lot of cool features like starter packs and lists and feeds + the ability to do your own moderation. It’s really customizable that way + there a lot of users… In the end people will go where people are. Besides, mastodon is cool because its still underground and is filled with nerds like the early internet. Do we really want all the normies to join?