I see posts occasionally asking for advice on building portfolios and getting work to practice ones skills. We always see and encourage new designers to never work for free, there is even a rule for this sub against asking for free work.
I feel there is a place for new designers or even veterans to hone in on their skill and experiment with new ideas while giving back to the community. A lot of community owned open source projects are in desperate need of good design and are not for profit companies.
A lot of popular projects have no clear design consistency and have a rep for being ugly and difficult to use but quite often underneath all that UI is a damn decent tool. Some off the top of my mind: Audacity, Gimp, QBittorrent, many component of desktop environments for Linux such as Gnome and KDE and so on.
What are your thoughts on this?
Great design resource
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Submitted November 01, 2016 at 08:19PM by nightofgrim http://ift.tt/2f7cpSy
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