just wanted to vent and ask for advice/opportunities:
basically I'm moving soon and it'd help significantly to get some more income... the big problems being I'm autistic with low spoons and my skillset is at a weird intersection (system architecture, UX design, AR/VR, and Rust) where the only jobs I could find that fit the first 3 are at facebook or apple who would rip apart all the projects and eat up all the spoons i've got.
I did find a great job that I was able to do, https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg/113012322798382346, where because I know UX design and native development and system architecture and all I could help explain and provide examples to copy from to improve the UX! problem is, I just can't seem to find any more opportunities like this. It was low spoons (i can identify UX patterns like this easily and figure out how to practically implement them) and fit into my skillset.
I mean, i've been working on an XR display server (https://github.com/StardustXR/) from scratch with primitives designed to make good UX, even made a declarative UI toolkit and IDL for it and everything but display server knowledge is so utterly niche there's like 20 display servers in the whole world so getting a job for that is laughable and super rare.
I just kinda don't really know what else I can do? regular normie jobs with the commute and all are gonna eat up spoons really fast and so are the more corporate UX design jobs (figma mockups that a separate team of engineers implement is inefficient and difficult on my brain). Anyone have any advice or recommendations or opportunities like this?
I'd love to do UX design consulting as a freelance thing, it's something I'm actually good at and it's rare to find someone who knows good UX and system design and native code in 1 person.
Please give advice or boost for reach!
[#]design #ux #autism
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for our followers: Nova is a very talented full-stack developer and designer, a rare combination. they'd be a good addition to any team, and could really use some financial stability. @technobaboo
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@technobaboo @azonenberg Any more work Nova could do on ngscopeclient? Would be happy to contract them directly to get some more polish in by 0.1 (or future work for 0.2).
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@aleksorsist @technobaboo We were already talking about this. v0.1 feature freeze is in a week and I have some filters to finish before then (and other non-scopehal work keeping me busy), from then until the 0.1 release emphasis will be entirely on packaging and bug fixes and documentation and stability.
As soon as we start moving towards v0.2 early next year, I definitely want them to have another look at all of the recent UI changes and give additional comments. We can worry about the details of who's funding the work when that happens but I want to get 0.1 out the door, looking the way it does today but less buggy and better documented, first.
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@azonenberg @technobaboo Gotya, let me know if there's anything that can be sped up (especially packaging) with some more funding. I've got some more put aside as the campaign went better than I could have expected!
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@aleksorsist @technobaboo I can definitely find uses for budget, I just don't want to delay v0.1 by embarking on new feature development this close to the target release.
Get something decently polished we can point new/early access/beta users at, then worry about making it even better once we have something with a download link.
Artwork will definitely need additional funding too. Checking my spreadsheet, your last donation was very helpful but after that and my one GH sponsor I'm a net of $1422.88 in the red on the project YTD, most of that due to artwork and GUI/UX stuff.
WRT packaging, let me get back to you on that.
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@azonenberg @technobaboo Yah priority for funding is 100% packaging and usability rn - especially getting a smooth install available on Windows. Every EE that uses Altium is stuck with Windows, so it should be given first class treatment for a test equipment client.
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@aleksorsist @technobaboo Yep. We actually have MSI install packages for Windows now being built by CI that as far as I know are good (haven't personally tested but people tell me they work).
MacOS is still pending then a lot of stability and doc work which I expect to be the main focus in December.
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@aleksorsist @technobaboo And an icon for the application itself. We still don't have one.
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Yeah, we actually looked at glscopeclient at one point at work for tying in multiple measurements.
But all windows machines for the hardware and embedded folks there. Linux is only for devices and servers.
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