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Beautiful design can drive user adoption of open source software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 4, 2013

Open source software always has the advantage of offering a free alternative to mainstream solutions, but it doesn’t guarantee user adoption. Your end user – whether an individual or a business – will care about two main points:

1. Does the product do what it is supposed to do to make our life/business efficient/productive/easy/connected/fun etc.?
2. Does it feel right to use it?

Everything else comes afterwards. Even if there is a free open source alternative, people will often pay for the premium product if the open source one fails in either of the above points.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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