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0 pointsAaronChampagne15y ago0 comments

|Most times, when I team up with some designer they'd want to make pretty icons...

The designer should know enough to you visual symbols that have real-world equivalents to convey the meaning of the button visually. Envelopes for mail. phones for contact button. Thumbs up to like, thumbs down to dislike.

This is my first time learning about the open source project (never been on hacker news before). Can anyone provide a link to what you would call a typical open source project in need of a designer. I'm terrified of working with you guys but am starting to feel like maybe I should get over that and lend a hand.

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jbk15y ago

> I'm terrified of working with you guys but am starting to feel like maybe I should get over that and lend a hand.

You shouldn't be terrified.

My advice: start with a small open source team (not small project) on a project you like. Maybe do not start with your real name (it will be easy to change aftewards). Come on one IRC channel of a project ( like #videolan on freenode) and propose your services. See how people react. If you like them, go on, if you don't, move along.

nfriedly15y ago

Here's the one that had been mentioned in jbk's post: http://www.videolan.org/

VideoLAN makes VLC. VLC is one of the best video players in existence, it's also fairly ugly.

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