Wikimedia Research/Design Research/2015 workshop

Design Research Workshop

November 20, 2015

Links

 * Slides: LINK TO COMMONS
 * Youtube stream (for second part of workshop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJFR0VW3SI
 * Interactive website: http://design-research-methods.wmflabs.org/

Comments

 * The referenced user testing for UploadWizard led to the Multimedia team writing an in-editor upload tool for VisualEditor (WikiEditor on the way...)
 * Another important consideration about sample size in usability testing is that if you have resources to put 15 people in front of your solution is it better to do 3 rounds of testing with 5 users each and improving your solution after each one rather than doing a big round with 15 users that allows to catch all issues but having no room to check if the solution to those was effective.
 * The exercise of completing the spreadsheet was really good! It's not only useful to plan and understand current workflows, but also, to better understand how to collaborate cross-teams (María).
 * Personas! Would be great if you can give us a guide to how to make our own personas if we don't see them in the list you have created.
 * http://design-research-methods.wmflabs.org/ is beautifully designed, and seems to contain useful information, but I doubt many people will remember the URL two weeks from now, and the content doesn't seem searchable or editable. Also, Labs doesn't seem a good place for publishing text in the long term (we'll still be interested in this stuff two years from now, right?). How about putting a copy on Meta-wiki or mediawiki.org?

Questions for design research
1. From Halfak: Is there documentation for persona research on MediaWiki/Meta? Where can I find it?
 * Answer: TODO add links to related resources to Meta/MW

2. what is understood by "the Global South"? And do you think one persona will represent "the Global South"?
 * Answer: not one persona for Global South (first part of question not really answered...)

3. what is the Ghana research? Can we access that?
 * Answer: analysis is ongoing, results will be published on wiki (TODO)