Design System Team

Wikimedia Foundation projects Design System Team Our mission is to develop an overarching strategy for front-end design and engineering across Wikimedia. This includes building and maintaining a design system that provides tools and guidelines for building user interfaces in an efficient, scalable, and equitable way. This work supports audiences that are critical to developing new knowledge experiences by ensuring that they are successful in creating, maintaining, and extending front-end features across Wikimedia with consistency and ease. Group: Product Team members: Anne Tomasevich, Bárbara Martinez Calvo, Christopher Ciufo, Eric Gardner, Lauralyn Watson, Nat Baca, Roan Kattouw, Sarai Sánchez, Volker E., Derek Torsani

Vision

Main page: Design_System_Team/Vision

To provide a comprehensive, reusable, extensible way to design and build front ends on Wikimedia platforms, by following a universal style guide and a shared development kit that codifies the visual and experience principles and guidelines in a library of user-interface (UI) components.

Current Work Streams

Main page: Design_System_Team/Workstreams

Codex, design system for Wikimedia and user-interface library

The Codex design system for Wikimedia is the place where all of the components and patterns that designers use to create products are systematically organized, in such a way that they are easy to find, modify and create new parts. The design system is grounded in a set of principles and guidelines designed with for consistency, efficiency, web accessibility and internationalization by default.

Part of Codex is the frontend development toolkit for implementing the design system in code. It provides engineers with UI components that are built in CSS-only and JavaScript (Vue.js), with design tokens to store data for design values, and user-facing documentation.

Front-end Technology

Wikimedia's medium-term Platform Evolution plan set out to prioritize modern engineering practices, performance, and ease-of-use for contributors of varying experience levels. As a result, the Design System Team organized the Vue.js Developer Summit 2021 which led to the decision to adopt Vue.js as the official programming framework for MediaWiki.

Team

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  Christopher Ciufo
  Senior Platform Product Manager
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  Roan Kattouw
  Principal Software Engineer
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  Nat Baca
  Senior Engineering Manager
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  Anne Tomasevich
  Staff Software Engineer
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  Eric Gardner
  Senior Software Engineer
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  Bárbara Martínez
  Senior User Experience Designer
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  Volker E.
  Lead User Experience Engineer
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  Lauralyn Watson
  Software Engineer
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  Derek Torsani
  Lead Visual Designer

Introductory Links

• Request help from the Design System Team - Includes Phabricator task template.
• Current Status - High-level overview of Design System Team work streams.
• Planned Components - A list of components we have planned to take on in time.
• FAQs - Frequently asked questions.
• Design System Governance Model - Design/development flowchart for new Codex components and additions.
• History of user-interface libraries and frameworks in MediaWiki - How we arrived here.
• Resources - Our collection of helpful resources about Codex, the Wikimedia Design System, the Design System Team, and front-end technology.

Contribution Guidelines

You can volunteer and help us!

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