Hi inkscape devs,
We are a group of UX, UI designers and front-end devs from Kaleidos http://www.kaleidos.net/community/, a company from Madrid, Spain. We are also designers and developers of the open source tool Taiga.io. We use inkscape in our everyday work and we love it, *so we would like to collaborate with our expertise to help make it even better.*
Some months ago, we started to think on how we could improve usability and design in inkscape and other open source tools. We found out that inkscape improved in the last years, but still have some issues. We made some initial wireframes and designs, but nothing has been developed until now.
In our company we enjoy a *free* week every six months to work and collaborate (or develop) in open source projects. This week is called ΠWEEK [*a.k.a. Personal innovation week] *(piweek.com). *This ΠWEEK we decided to focus on inkscape to do a first approach on how could look the inkscape we would love* in terms of look & feel as designers and front-end devs.
Of course, we know that is hard work and it is not just designing it so we decided to write to the list *to get some advice on how to collaborate in the best way possible for designers and developers and hopefully fit in the inkscape development roadmap. *
Even if this week we will probably be doing just a creative exercise it would be amazing if we could get some parts of this work and focus on it in a longer term to be part of the inkscape development roadmap for the future with your feedback and fitting in the inkscape needs and conditions.
It will be amazing if you show us what is the best way to contribute, what would be your needs and how we could be part of this amazing community.
Soon we will publish the result and hopefully we get some feedback as well.
Thanks!
Xavi *Front-end developer in Kaleidos and UI designer in taiga.io http://taiga.io*