“Within the Appeal environment the practices of art, usability and software development are brought together during the earliest phases of development and supported through ongoing communication and periodic in-person meetings. Appeal serves as an incubator for emerging technologies that reflect this philosophy of work.”

“To me it seems the KDE project is not only trying to improve the look & feel of KDE - they want to include design in their strategy. Finally they need to help Linux to get a competitive user experience.
It is a good sign. But we should never forget the spirit of the early 1970ies where user interface design was about inventing interaction patterns - and not so much about selecting preferable color schemes. There have been very few inventions recently (but a lot of tiny ones to be fair).”