Design Research-Editing Department KIT

This is a bi-weekly meeting between the Design Research team and the leads of the Editing Vertical teams (Collaboration (Flow), Wikitext, VisualEditor, mobile editors, Multimedia, Content Translation, Upload Wizard) to coordinate and plan 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 8 Sep 2015.

to talk about next meeting
=September 8, 2015=
 * James to send Abbey link for testing with experienced editors VisualEditor when cursor is near a link (evaluate both experiences)
 * Change of direction; does not need its own DR evaluation
 * Abbey and Daisy did a heuristic of visual editing on iOS and Android phones.
 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gj7a5pjw8SP3Z-Wmj87dZQHSTtLdYRyfylwReL_U-T0/edit#slide=id.p
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113061
 * quick debrief of mobile contribution research (wikimania research)

New Action Items

 * Abbey & Nirzar to synch about AN prototype mobile Web version before Fri Sept 11
 * Daisy and Abbey did a heuristic evaluation of ve on mobile (both iOS and Android)
 * the conclusion is that there are a lot of bugs and things to fix before usability testing can be done.
 * other things are inconsistent rendering of various parts of the VE
 * inconsistent behaviors
 * We need to have CLs in our meetings
 * Abbey to follow up with CLs in their team meeting

Older Action Items

 * Abbey and DR team present mobile contributions research to full editing team when it is ready (still working on it) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106422
 * Not quite ready
 * Trevor to create an initial meeting for "Concepts in broad user interaction" project (DONE)
 * Started process
 * Nirzar: Link recommendations in VisualEditor – 'ACTION: Nirzar to add Phab LINK?'
 * Still open
 * James to send Abbey link for testing with experienced editors VisualEditor when cursor is near a link (evaluate both experiences)
 * Change of direction; does not need its own DR evaluation
 * Erica's request to fix the feedback tool UI and calls to action https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100011
 * Nirzar working on

Projects

 * 1) Support unforeseen VE Launch issues
 * 2) No news 8 Sept
 * 3) VE Mobile Research (independent from Demo effort) T101333 / report: T106422
 * 4) Mobile edit contributions at Wikimania
 * 5) Very generative
 * 6) ETA week of Aug 31 to complete analysis
 * 7) Then all 4 DR team members to write report to maximize number of perspectives
 * 8) 8 Sept: still in progress
 * 9) Create and execute a test plan for the VE mobile prototype T88756
 * 10) VE team is publically committed (mediawiki.org, quarterly goals) to undertaking some user testing of mobile prototype by end of Q1 (end of Sep 2015)
 * 11) Evaluative on a piece of software
 * 12) We have a design (based on design principles, not testing) that is the basis of current implementation tasks; may be able to use this for testing
 * 13) Persona: casual editor
 * 14) 8 Sept: James: prototype will be good enough on Fri Sept 11 Ideally, recruit once prototype is ready
 * 15) NEW ACTION: Abbey & Nirzar to synch about AN before Fri Sept 11
 * 16) Research on Curation Tools (exploratory) (was: Flow: Exploratory Notifications Research Phab. T100650)
 * 17) 8 Sept: targeting early Q2
 * 18) VE Education Features – T108620
 * 19) Next steps: engineering work now that initial designs are done
 * 20) Plan usability testing once we know timing
 * 21) VE Link Inspector T101166
 * 22) Next steps: engineering work now that initial designs are done
 * 23) Plan usability testing once we know timing
 * 24) Content Translation Translation Dashboard
 * 25) 8 Sept: * Initial tests done with 2 users. Good feedback to iterate designs (but low participation.Summertime?). More to be done (with specific users). Summary of testing sessions (so far): https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/1WEYPo8rUj-sEFmucj7rtNb98fggnMM6-Go6fzJdOHs8/edit?usp=sharing
 * 26) ContentTranslation: Translation lists T104353
 * 27) Need to complete by Sept 30
 * 28) Samantha can help with scheduling
 * 29) Amir: Mobile in CX parent task: T106396, DR task: T108700
 * 30) Identify user targets
 * 31) not starting immediately, but notification
 * 32) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 33) 8 Sept: Nirzar worked on a flow and will set up iteration with Prateek
 * 34) Abbey: DR is available to discussion
 * 35) Card sort for Info Arch in toolbar in VE: T97001
 * 36) 8 Sept: started a long time ago, waiting for when Editing has time to finish it
 * 37) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 38) 8 Sept: ACTION: Trevor ready to schedule meeting
 * 39) High level on the project: research question? / time lines? / persona this is for
 * 40) start planning generative research
 * 41) Link recommendations in VisualEditor – 'ACTION: Nirzar to add Phab LINK?'
 * 42) 8 Sept : meeting today
 * 43) Project that Data Research are working on
 * 44) Nirzar working conceptual designs with them
 * 45) Needs a lot of work to integrate

Discussion

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100308
 * need help understanding what this one is. Does it need research?
 * should be part of broader research on editing tools in general
 * Abbey suggests survey

Next Meeting
22 Sept 2015