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Rushabh is the founder of ERPNext an Open Source ERP product for Small and Medium Sized Businesses and loves writing code in Python, Javascript and HTML/CSS. He lives in Mumbai, India and you can find him on Twitter @rushabh_mehta. Projects at GitHub
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Nicu, thanks for your thoughts. When we started off, getting a high quality design was seemed like a very hard thing to do, but it turned out to be a lot simpler, so we wanted to share that. I truly believe that with good design, open source projects can have a much bigger impact.
Regarding engaging the community, it is a great point. If we had good quality designers in the community, we would not have gone with a third party. To be honest, we did not have much control on the re-design either, other than the brief, which was open to the community. Given our budget, we did not have room for many iterations. But it turned out to be pretty good. The design is free (with the same license) and anyone can modify it they way they want. But yes, we could have gone and let the discussion simmer for a few days in the community, which we did not. Will surely do that next time.
Thanks @Clive, @Steve!
@Hans, Took the decision ~10 years ago. Also technology is continuously design and architecture so starting late is sometimes an advantage.