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Opensource Icons for my app? [closed]

I'm working on an opensource project in C# which is basically a small desktop application in WinForms. What I need is a set of icons/images to add to the UI elements such as toolbars and command ...
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How are GUI and User Experience issues, approached by open software developers?

In my opinion, among open software developers there is not much attention given to the GUI or how it is used. With very notable exceptions of course, Blender, Ubuntu, VLC, and maybe others I've not ...
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Contributing UX/UI to Free/Open Source Projects?

I'd like to exercise some of my UX/UI knowledge by contributing to a couple of the FOSS projects that I've used over the years. I've found that these projects usually have a huge deficiency in the ...
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Open source / free screen capture tools for user testing [closed]

What free tools are there on the Windows platform that I can use to capture what mouse movements and clicks a user makes during an evaluation? Ideal product would: Not be likely to crash and freak ...
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Context sensitive help for wordy user preferences

Current UI Here is a poorly designed panel on a preferences dialog for the open source audio editor 'Audacity'. I'd like to do something about it. How it got that way In the past the text beside ...
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Which Free Wireframe and Mockup Application do you recommend? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which prototyping tools? Things I would like: Open source No restrictions Simple and powerful
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Which open source project should I consider to improve their usability and visual design

I am available for 5 hours per week and want to contribute to open source community. I would like to keep focus on business or health related web application for now. I have tried Sourceforge to ...
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What is the most effective way to solicit and manage open source project UI feedback?

I'm planning to release a project which will integrate with several popular content management systems as a plugin and operate as a stand-alone service - beyond providing users with a simple contact ...
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Usability testing for open-source projects?

I'm working (slowly) on an open-source project, and I was hoping to do some usability testing once it's a bit further along. Also, hopefully the GIMP devs will notice this question ;-). I'm not sure ...