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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answer d) all of the above
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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.