Design

Purpose
The Wikimedia Foundation User Experience Design group is responsible for the look and feel of projects, from a functional level to a final pixel level released design. The UX group works closely with existing Wikimedians as well as new users to socialize our designs and plans, and works with the Product Management group to establish product roadmaps.

Team
The User experience team has over 40 years of combined user experience design and research, engineering, information architecture, HCI, visual design, and usability experience.

How to work with team members
Each feature area at the Wikimedia Foundation has an associated Primary & Secondary Designer, and as new feature areas are created they will be assigned Design points of contact. If your feature area is not in the Product or Engineering Groups, please contact Jared Zimmerman. Current Primary & Secondary roles.

How to work with us in general

 * Review, fix, or create Phabricator design tasks
 * Join the [//lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design Design mailing list]
 * Learn about the Wikimedia design principles and how to give design feedback
 * Help with Micro Design Improvements
 * A #wikimedia-design IRC channel exists and may be in active use by design folks or not.

Internal process

 * Design Critique
 * Design Team Roles
 * Usability Research

Design team titles

 * Associate Designer
 * Associate Design Researcher
 * Designer
 * Senior Designer
 * Research Lead

Projects
Projects we're working on can be seen on our Trello board.

Design exploration
Every Friday the Design team takes time to think about longer lead projects, areas of personal interest, or design problems that aren't their primary area of focus to spend time brainstorming, sketching and collaborating on. Many of the projects created during Explore will hopefully turn into roadmap projects or Beta Features.

For the projects we've researching in Explore time, check out Explore on our Trello board.

Volunteering
We welcome help in any way, but we have limited time and have priorities based on our yearly roadmap to focus on. We want to make sure we foster an environment where community designers can contribute to the projects as well as developers.

A few ways to help out by volunteering your time:
 * Join the [//lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design Design mailing list]
 * Review, fix, or create Phabricator design tasks
 * If you decide to take on or propose some design improvements, the best way to get feedback from the design team is to create a card for your work on a special trello board where the designs and the community can give feedback. Check it out here. 

Design resources
When designing with us bear in mind our Design best practices.

All our graphics assets are licensed under open licenses, apart from many of the logos which are trademarked. All our user interface software is developed publicly in open source projects.
 * Typography
 * Iconography
 * WikiFont (ongoing)
 * Mediawiki.ui - User interface library