Design Research-Editing Department KIT

This is a tri-weekly meeting between the Editing Design team and the leads of the Editing Department's teams (Collaboration, VisualEditor, Multimedia, Language, Parsing, Design) to coordinate and plan Design and Design Research work. This meeting is intended to clarify priorities, define work, schedule work, manage conflicts, share findings, and ensure Design Research and Editing stay aligned in their work. See the Meeting Standard Operating Procedure.

Last meeting 30 Mar 2017. Next Meeting 20 Apr 2017.

=New Items for next meeting= = Teams =
 * Collaboration
 * Daisy and Joe met with Pau to spec. out user interviews:
 * one on satisfaction with now,
 * second to test the usability of the thing we're going to build afterwards (Recent Changes Release 2)
 * have defined specific metrics for baseline before release
 * Have been looking at it, think it's done. Neil is working on a new metric to cover new user retention rates.
 * Should Neil attend these meetings? Probably, but he's busy enough that it may not be worth it.


 * VisualEditor
 * NWE: [still:] no update with fixing things. not close to another round of feature changes/DR yet.
 * visual diffs went out (as secondary feature, within VE only)
 * Going through community member feedback
 * Does design team need to review the feedback? No showstoppers yet.
 * Mobile long-form editing conceptual work still paused.


 * UX Standardization
 * Volker: nothing new to report


 * Language
 * ongoing content translation tool/template testing
 * Pau: We are doing some research sessions on templates
 * Daisy: trying to schedule more sessions, at least 5. Problems with dropoff.  Hoping for continuous scheduling and feedback.
 * Daisy: Update next meeting on details.


 * General
 * save/publish went out yesterday except for English and German.
 * German waiting for better translation text
 * English waiting for appropriate time re: community focus