Design/Participate
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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.
Contents
- 1 Ways to Participate
- 2 By Process
- 3 By projects and products
- 4 Design Style Guide
Ways to Participate[edit]
You can participate in many ways based on your interests, availability, and capacity. Understanding our design process will help you figure out what are appropriate interventions you can partake in.
- By Process
- By Projects or Products
- Design Style Guide
By Process[edit]
Our process can be broken down into following broad ideas
1. Understand and discover[edit]
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2. Uncover and frame the problem statement[edit]
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3. Explore ideas and solutions[edit]
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4. Build and evaluate prototypes[edit]
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5. Develop solutions[edit]
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6. Document solutions and rationale[edit]
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7. Learn from how design is getting used[edit]
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By projects and products[edit]
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
| Project/Product | Team Resonsible | Ongoing Work | Design Point of Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia for Mobile and Desktop Web | Reading Web | Phabricator Board | Alex Hollender / |
| Wikipedia for Android | Android | Phabricator Board | Rita Ho |
| Wikipedia for iOS | iOS | Phabricator Board | Carolyn Li-Madeo |
| Multimedia and Structured data on Commons | Multimedia | Phabricator Board | Pam Drouin |
| Content Translation tool | Language | Pau Giner | |
| Language tools | Language | Pau Giner | |
| Collaboration tools | Collaboration | Pau Giner | |
| Visual Editor | Editing | Jess Klein | |
| Accessibility | UI Standardisation | Volker Eckl | |
| Design Research | Audiences Design | Daisy Chen / Abbey Ripstra | |
| Prototyping | Audiences Design | Prateek Saxena / Jan Drewniak | |
| Design Style Guide | UI Standardisation | Volker Eckl | |
| Design direction / principles / values | Audiences Design | -- | Nirzar Pangarkar / Margeigh Novotny |
Design Style Guide[edit]
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[edit]
- 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 @WikimediaUX on Twitter
- Contribute - Read contributing guidelines on Github
- Play around - Download Wikimedia Design Style Guide
