Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Design

Few members from Design Team at Wikimedia Foundation will be attending the 2018 Wikimedia Hackathon

Purpose
Design team's intent is to help community developers and members create usable and consistent design solutions for projects related to Wikimedia movement.

Wikimedia Foundation design team is a multidisciplinary team with extensive experience in user experience design and research, engineering, information architecture, HCI, visual design, and usability.

Design support
Design team is always keen on working with community developers to build better software. Well designed software. Here are functional areas that you can get help from the Design Team at the Hackathon
 * Heuristic review
 * Usability recommendations
 * Visual design
 * User Interface Design
 * Interaction design
 * Wikimedia Design Style Guide usage
 * User Research

Activities
Design team will be conducting few activities at the Hackathon for participants who are interesting in Designing for MediaWiki and Wikipedia.

Design research
Design at WMF is beginning a project researching mobile personas. Though the primary background research and user outreach will begin in late March, we hope to take the opportunity of the hackathon to potentially speak to the community about their interactions with our mobile media (apps, mobile web, desktop on mobile).

Where: TBD

When: TBD

Point of contact: Daisy Chen

Design consultation
We will be available for any type of consultation around design. Look out for Design Consultation table.

Where: TBD

When: All days

Point of contact: Pau Giner

Design Sprint Workshop
We would like to conduct a design workshop to better understand how editors use mobile devices and also create a space for editors and community members sketch ideas to solve the problems they face.

Learn more about the workshop

Where: TBD

When: TBD

Point of contact: Nirzar Pangarkar

Why and how to use Wikimedia Design Style Guide
We present the style guide and developments since last year – including OOUI demos and extensive developer documentation.

Learn more about the style guide

Where: TBD

When: TBD

Point of contact: Volker Eckl

[eventually, depending on time available to prepare:]

Accessibility consultation for your project/extension/gadget
We introduce attendees a variety of resources on accessibility and fundamentals on how to design for impaired audiences. We will also go and provide hands-on help.

Where: TBD

When: TBD

Point of contact: Volker Eckl

Members attending

 * Nirzar Pangarkar
 * Alex Hollender
 * Carolyn Li-Madeo
 * Volker Eckl
 * Pau Giner
 * Daisy Chen