Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Design/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 to sketch out ideas to solve the problems they face.

Why
Editing on mobile devices is a big focus point for the Wikimedia Foundation's product teams, along with formal design research, this could be a good opportunity to collaborate with community members and learn about possible directions for providing editing workflows like Recent Changes, Watchlist, Diffs on mobile devices.

Problem statement
There are numerous editing workflows that are missing from the Mobile Web version of Wikipedia. If we were to implement these workflows on the mobile website by various technological methods, how would they work? How would they look? Are there any low hanging fruit solutions? How can we keep a balance between ideal solutions, and simple solutions that overtime become ideal solutions?

Method
We will be using the Design Sprint Kit to run this workshop.

The workshop will be broken up into 3 parts:

Phase 1: Understand
The purpose of this phase is to understand processes by sharing experience. After sharing personal experiences, there will be some time for writing down pain points. This will be followed by affinity mapping of these pain points. We will group the problems into buckets.

After the buckets have been made, there will be a quick vote to decide priority.

Phase 2: Sketch
As the name suggests this will be time for sketching solutions. A framework will be provided to participants to sketch ideas. This is a divergent exercise. After sketching, participants will share their solutions.

After this, to converge there will be another round of voting.

Expected outcome

 * Understand level of interest in community members and editors on solving this problem statements
 * Understand the importance of individual pain points
 * Explore possible direction on approaching this problem
 * Build working relationships with community members
 * Exercise collaborative design methods

Who is needed

 * Participants interested in design, editing and curating, communities, sketching, Wikimedia, Wikipedia
 * Process: Max
 * Design: Nirzar, Alex, Carolyn (optional)
 * Product: Olga

Roles

 * Facilitator (Program Management)
 * Observer (Designer)
 * Note taker (Designer/PM)
 * Time Keeper

Time required
~ 3 hours