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Paul Moore

@mairin I'd be curious to hear how community projects looking for designer/UX help can go about finding people with that background who are willing to help.

Some projects naturally draw designer/UX oriented and talented people due to the nature of the project, others aren't so lucky and we need to go searching for help.

I have similar questions for people with a technical documentation background if anyone wants to chime in on that front too ;)

@securepaul Yes! I want to know about this.

I went to a talk recently about this hoping to learn something, but their approach felt very corporate open source and was not what I was looking for. 😥

I was looking forward to an interesting analysis of what barriers keep designers from contributing to open source, but the talk was basically "give them recognition and merch!". I'm sure many people around here will have far more deeply considered answers than that!