Who's working on free open-source projects that needs a Brand or UI/UX facelift? Hoping I can get designers (myself inclusive) to work on more open-source projects here.
You might be interested in https://opensourcedesign.net/ which is an organization which tries to pair designers with open source projects.
Try to contribute to a open source project you are using. A good UI design involves groking what the software can do and groking what the user wants to do, and it's very difficult to do that if you are not a user.