Here's what it would take to get me to make bring my product design/interaction design skills to open source software: * Easy way to and keep track of 'what p

Here's what it would take to get me to make bring my product design/interaction design skills to open source software: * Easy way to and keep track of 'what projects are underway now and which need HCI or UX expertise'? * Way to speak with the team over email or IM about what UX challenges there are, and learn the constraints * Confidence that designers will be adequately recognized for their contributions Reading the thread here makes me realize that we're all so specialized--and this is a big part of the problem. UX designers need to learn to use a command line, need to learn to do at least some coding. Likewise, software engineers (including open source contributors) need to become more discerning about the basic principles of human-computer interaction and user interface design (not just visual styling). Once both roles start to become generalizing specialists, better collaborations will just happen.