It's not just design, but implementation.
As a developer, I don't care about UI/UX because I have more important things to do (functionality).
The only way that anything I build will ever have good UI/UX is if someone else takes care of it.
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I disagree with this take. As a developer, UX is your responsibility, core part of the job description.
The key is UX for who exactly.
When you're the only developer working on something, the next users in the critical path are other developers/contributors, not normies.
Also important to acknowledge your weaknesses. For example, Linus Torvolds isn't great at UI. If that's what he focused on (rather than function) Linux wouldn't exist.
Nobody cares about functionality if the app provides a terrible user experience and has Windows 98 UI. Functionality and UX/UI are all equally important.
There's plenty of experienced designers out there willing to help if you're willing to listen.
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Everything is open source. Designers are free to contribute.
Sure, I listen to them.
"Let's build a ski chalet on top of that mountain, it can have a sauna and an ice bath, we'll put a wood burner in the middle, a drying room, a small workshop for fixing skis, oh and we can paint the walls blue that will look great! I'll stay here and make sketches, you go build it."
Then it's just a matter of implementation of course....
I honestly didn't know what a complete bunch of douches normie developer types have become until joining nostr.
I'm fairly astonished by it.
People don't care about UI as much as they seem to need to think they do.
People have different skills. The architect's job isn't as physically demanding as the builder's, but without the architect the builder will struggle to build a home people enjoy living in and the home value will suffer.
Absolutely. My fiat job hired a UI UX designer for this reason, because none of our code monkey's could do it properly.
I've been saying this for a year now in relation to Nostr. Most Nostr developers don't have designers. It's just a developer and that's it. And most don't worry about it or don't have the designer eye to be able to worry about it. We have some exceptions now, but in the grand scheme of things, we need proper development and design teams consisting of more than one or two people.