Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he's trying to convince open-source projects to experiment more and drive the desktop beyond the age-old " windows, icons, menus, pointer " (WIMP) model. At Akademy 2026 , KDE's annual developer conference, he shared his complaints and ideas in a talk aimed at convincing those in attendance to take the lead on desktop design. He introduced himself as someone who has been doing UX for a long time, much of that time at Google. He said that over that time he had noticed a cultural shift, " because back in 2005 when I joined, we weren't evil; we were really trying to do the right thing ". He had worked on the Chrome team for a while, which he said was " filled with people who wanted nothing but open-source, open-web " projects. Things had changed radically, which led him to leave Google, " but I'm trying to atone for my sins working for these companies ".…