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 Wikipedians as well as new users to socialize our designs and plans, and works with the Product Management group to establish product roadmaps.

Process
How to work with us as team members

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

How to work with us in general Internal Process Design Team Titles
 * Review, fix, or create [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=design&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=209584&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cvotes%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_status%20DESC%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&query_based_on= Bugzilla design bugs]
 * 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.
 * Design Critique
 * Design Team Roles
 * Usability Research
 * Flow Prototype Testing
 * Visual Editor Usability Testing (coming soon)
 * Associate Designer
 * Designer
 * Senior Designer

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.

Projects
Active projects we're working on:
 * Flow
 * Limn Dashboard Creations
 * Mobile Applications
 * OAuth
 * Search
 * Onboarding & Account Creation for Translators
 * Content Translation
 * Visual Keyboards
 * Anonymous Editor Acquisition
 * Article Creation

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.

What we've created in Explore time:
 * Mobile Homepage
 * Mobile Citation Interface
 * Compact Personal Bar
 * Fixed Site Header
 * Mobile Profiles
 * Mobile Edit History
 * Data & Developer Hub
 * Barebones MediaWiki

Volunteering
How to help as a Volunteer… (coming soon)

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
 * Translation/Localization
 * Mediawiki.ui - User interface library