Thanks! Yes Friendica is interesting, too! I took it for a quick spin and and yes, I think there are some opportunities to improve things for new and non-technical users that could be tackled with some user research and user-centred design! Are there places i should look if I want to contribute to Friendica or Fedilab? If you have suggestions for an active Friendica server I could try out as a newbie that’d be great.

Indeed, there are some UI differences between servers. But I think several of the Fedi services share difficulties related to high priority user tasks (sign up, logon, find posts / threads of interest, reply, post). I’m thinking some attention to users’ mental models and development design patterns might benefit several projects and many servers all at once, perhaps. Just a thought.

Thank you again.

I agree with your caution against moving fast and breaking things!

I think that user-centred design tools can be very useful for big projects and existing services as well as small projects in development :)

Thanks! It is useful for me to have more of a poke around there, for sure!

Of course, human-centred design and UX is more than just bug reports (sorry I’m probably telling you stuff you already know).

I am also interested to connect with other people thinking about the UX (end to end user experience) of Lemmy: find out what’s already been done in terms of speaking with diverse potential users, finding out how people want to use it, thinking about mental models and user stories, etc.