Hi Xaviju,
In short, scratch your itches. You'll be most passionate and effective with either what you know best, or what you desire the most.
When you say some initial wireframes and designs were made but nothing had been developed until now, are you saying you have created something recently to share or that you will create something in the upcoming week? Even if nothing had been polished yet, sharing existing wireframes sooner might not be bad.
Obviously we would love some mockups or feedback on the interface design. We do have some constraints on our end due to the cross-platform toolkit that we use. In other words, there might be some of restrictions we will face or run into which might make implementing things very challenging or potentially not practical.
It seems like your company focuses on web oriented design. If you wanted to do a UX review of the website and create some design mockups in that area, I don't know that anyone would be terribly insulted in that category either.
Inkscape is primarily created by volunteers and other people who are passionate... share your passion with us. Whatever way your team goes, we're excited to see what you come up with. :) We're also happy to have you as users and in our development community!
Cheers, Josh
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Xaviju Julián <xaviju@...400...> wrote:
Hi inkscape devs,
We are a group of UX, UI designers and front-end devs from Kaleidos, 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
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