A UX Focused Guide to Building a Linux Distro for Normies
The article discusses the need for a more cohesive user experience in open-source software, particularly in Linux distributions. It highlights the inconsistencies in design language among existing tools and aims to create a polished Linux distribution with a unified design philosophy. The project focuses on establishing UX design guidelines and standards for better implementation of applications.
- ▪The article emphasizes the inconsistency in user experience within open-source software.
- ▪It critiques existing solutions like Gnome for not prioritizing common tools in their design.
- ▪The goal is to create a Linux distribution with a cohesive design and a suite of applications that adhere to these standards.
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This work is licensed under CC-BY Open But Polished Why must an open ecosystem of software have such inconsistency in user-experience, and design language? There should be no reason open software cannot be as polished or as cohesive as proprietary alternatives. Therefore, lets make it polished. The problem I find with existing solutions such as gnome, is that common tools still aren't first class citizens. Libreoffice doesn't exactly fit in to the design language does it? This project has an end goal of a cohesively designed linux distribution. But currently that is a yacht problem. The aim currently is to build a suite of apps with a consistent design philosophy(see below).
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