Design/Participate

We welcome help in many ways. We want to make sure we foster an environment where community designers can contribute to the projects as well as developers. Wikimedia movement is work of many diverse members of our communities. Your participation in designing for Wikimedia Movement is key to building useful and usable products.

Ways to Participate
You can participate in many ways based on your interests, availability, and capacity. Understanding our design process may help you determine how you'd like to be involved.
 * Our Process
 * Our Projects / Products
 * Design Style Guide

Our Process
Our process can be broken down into following broad areas A guide on how Wikimedia Foundation designers typically work in collaboration with other members of a Product team (Product Managers, Engineers, QA, etc) can be viewed here.
 * Understand and discover
 * Uncover and frame the problem statement
 * Explore ideas and solutions
 * Build and evaluate prototypes
 * Develop solutions
 * Document solutions and rationale
 * Learn from how design is getting used

By projects and products
If you are interested in contributing to a particular project or product that Wikimedia Foundation develops, you can find the ongoing work and person to contact

Design Style Guide
Wikimedia Design Style Guide ensures consistency in how our products look and behave. Its guidelines enable interactions between our diverse communities and users. We encourage collaboration and participation in evolving the Wikimedia Design Style Guide.

Ways to participate

 * Request a change or an addition - Raise a ticket on our workboard to request a change to the Style Guide
 * Provide feedback - Get in touch with us on IRC
 * Follow us - Follow @WikimediaDesign on Twitter
 * Contribute - Read contributing guidelines on Github
 * Play around - Download Wikimedia Design Style Guide