You’d be surprised, behance and the like are full of people doing case studies for rebuilding popular apps for example.
There are hobbyists and people trying to get experience eveywhere, but there’s a fundamental disconnect between communities.
There are hobbyists and people trying to get experience eveywhere, but there’s a fundamental disconnect between communities.
Some of the bigger open source communities, like GNOME, do some amount of these things. But I think very few people are excited enough about user studies or marketing to do them as a hobby, unlike writing code. It's hard to see how you could beat Google/Apple/Microsoft at their own game like this without a lot of money. Red Hat is probably the biggest company that might be interested in this, but still about 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the giants.