Hi, I&#x27;d love to hear feedback on the following idea: a messageboard where people can review and discuss interface ideas for software or hardware.<p>For some time, I have been thinking of creating a discussion board where people can post interface ideas for open source software. These might be visual mock-ups or interface flows. It could even be ideas for an API or a language for laying out web pages.<p>UX design (by which I primarily mean visual and interaction design) has always had a difficult relationship with open source software (IMO). So why create a discussion board? I think designers work best by solving problems by themselves or with a small group of fellow collaborators. The large, distributed nature of many open source projects (with many developers) simply doesn&#x27;t work well for UX design.<p>A discussion board will allow anyone with a mock-up to post their idea and seek feedback from other designers or developers. They can then take on board that feedback or ignore it. Someone else may take that same idea and expand it in another direction (much like forking software).<p>The important point is that the seed of the interface idea comes from an individual or a small group of collaborators, not a committee or the wide open web. That may sound a bit undemocratic, but when everyone has a say in the design of a user interface, the result is often a UI that pleases no-one.<p>What do readers think? A good idea? Something you would be interested in participating in?
Ask HN: Would you participate in a messageboard for open source UX ideas?