Hi!
Welcome. 🙂Hello,I am new to the field of designing websites & UI-UX. Recently came across a post regarding UI-UX update of gimp https://news.itsfoss.com/gimp-ui-edward-snowden/
< snip the many links for discussion clarity >I want to contribute to this movement as an entry level designer. Please Share the further steps. A brief of my work sample assignments are attached to this email.
Please feel free to put your comments/reviews on the work
I don't have much to comment, I just had a quick look at the first links. It's fine, but I would note that you are mostly showing us composition design (layout, typeset and such). When people talked about design in GIMP, they mostly mean software design (there is still a part about layout of course), which is a whole other beast, stuff about workflow, understanding people's work with the software, make it simpler while having advanced capabilities, and so on.
Just wanted to make sure you are aware because the links you
showed made me feel like maybe not. 🤷
& tell me how can I contribute to the next design update of GIMP.
Well the first thing is to understand the program and what we do. So the first question I'd have is: Do you use GIMP?
You could still theoretically perfectly well help improving GIMP
without using it, but then you'd still have a lot of work having
to understand what it does, its purpose, then how other people use
it, what works well, what doesn't. Very often designers would run
user research/study, with interviews, usability testing and the
like.
Though really the best is that people use the software. "Eat your
own dog food" as they say.
Then finally you can choose a point where it doesn't (work well)
and think about how to improve it. Then do again more user testing
to have people test your improvements. I'm not going to do a full
course on software design (it reminds me my university years! 😆)
but probably you know about all this?
Now it could work with the world as your research subject, since
we are Free Software. We don't have to do such research as black
box. Actually we definitely don't wand to work in black box mode
even. We are a Free Software, and even more a Community Free
Software, something we care about. So it's normal for us to do
everything in the open with the most transparency possible.
So yes, feel free to exchange ideas with us, on this mailing list or on IRC (where you can find most devs) for quicker discussions: #gimp on irc.gimp.org.
You can also propose directly your improvements and mockups on
our bugtracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/
Though depending on what you want to propose, it might be a better
idea to discuss it here or on IRC first.
Basically contributing design is similar as contributing anything else: we discuss, you give input, patches, mockups, specifications… basically you work in your area of expertise, and things go from there. 🤗
Have fun with GIMP.
Jehan
P.S.: also whatever you want to contribute, you should work from
the development version, not the stable version. You can find
development releases for Windows and Linux there:
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/ (no macOS release for the
dev versions so far)
Regards,Biplab Roy.
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