Wikimedia Research/Design Research/Sandbox

What we
Design Research collaborates with Design, Analytics, Engineering, Product and the Wikipedia Community in order to help define what, at a high level teams should build and why (Generative Research). Also, Design Research supports iteration of concepts and functionality toward a usable and intuitive experience for users (Evaluative Research). Design Research, including both generative and evaluative research rely on a toolkit of research methodologies to provide findings informing decision making, concept development and concept iteration. Though the design team has been performing evaluative research to support iteration, design research is a new department at Wikimedia Foundation, and is growing and evolving to support the movement, the community and the foundation.

Project Queuing
|Trello Planning Board

Core Features
Flow
 * Echo
 * Completed Research
 * Flow
 * Completed Research

Growth
Acquisition of new users: Activation & Retention of new users: Reactivation of existing users:
 * Editor campaign
 * Anonymous editor acquisition
 * Account creation user experience and Login redesign
 * Timestamp position modification
 * Guided tours
 * Onboarding new Wikipedians
 * Wikipedia article creation and a new Draft namespace
 * Post-edit feedback
 * Task suggestions
 * Necromancy

Account Creation Guided Tours Onboardingnboarding
 * Account creation
 * Guided Tour
 * Onboarding New Wikipedians
 * Draft Namespace
 * Wikipedia article creation

Visual Editor iOS
Mobile Web Visual Editor
 * Heuristic Evaluation for Visual Editor (iOS)
 * Guerilla Testing for iOS App
 * Guerilla Testing iOS ipad Visual Editor
 * Heuristic Evaluation for Mobile Web Visual Editor (Android)

User Experience / Beta Features

 * Winter / Fixed Header

Archives
Wikimedia Research Portal

Tools
Usertesting.com — Unmoderated remote scripted usability testing

Conceptcodify.com — Unmoderated card sorting tool

SurveyMonkey.com —Unomderated survey tool with some analysis tools