By the Affinity and Canva Teams

An update from Affinity and Canva on the acquisition of Affinity/Serif by Canva. They have made 4 pledges, including to maintain perpetual licenses.

  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Totally agree, but the thing that makes me angry is that many, many open source projects miss this opportunity because of absolutely garbage UI/UX.

    Look at LibreOffice, for example. Lots of features that do more than what people need from MS Office most of the time, but even I cannot bring myself to use it long term because it’s UI/UX is trash.

    The open source industry has the problem that its devs think functionality is 99% of what matters, and most users disagree.

    We need to have some project that is crowd funded to hire some awesome designers and UX people and have them constantly working on important open source projects. I’d sponsor that in a heartbeat.

    • EddoWagtEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      This is why I love the Gnome desktop, while some decision are definitely controversial, they really put the user experience first. All libadwaita apps have the same basic styling and layout, so it’s always clear what you can and can not do. Libadwaita apps are just a joy to use, although some are a bit too basic for my liking

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’ve actually been pretty impressed with LibreOffice as of late. It’s fairly easy to adjust the theme (they have proper dark theme support now!) and layout to something pretty darn cozy feeling. Maybe for a power-user it’s not enough, but for my simple needs, like fiction writing and simple documents, I honestly can’t complain, they’ve done a solid job. Could it be better? Sure. But it’s in a good place, IMO.

      I think GIMP is a better example of a really user-hostile UX. That, almost more than any other open-source app, needs a UI overhaul.