How a graphic/type designer can help?

Hi everybody. I need you again, this time is to find out what is the best direction to follow in the project for my master thesis, that is about digital music writing and musical fonts particularly. The point is I would not like to do only a research about the present situation, but I would like to produce something concrete and useful.
I know somebody in the community collaborate in developing Musescore software or, at least, have ideas on what is needed and where you need some research or development.

So, if you manage to think about a graphic designer with knowledge in type design and in music reading, can you think about a possible element in the projects of your work team, where his knowledge would be useful to develop any element wich is needed someway?
Or, more simply, there is any element missing, to be designed or rationalised? Where you need to work more to do better?

If I manage to draw out an useful project, maybe it will be really useful to the development of Musescore.

Chiara