Last Friday we had a brown-bag presentation & discussion session at the WMF San Francisco office with Brandon Harris showing the "Athena" skin design mockups he's been building.
This effort is built around a "mobile-first" design direction that could eventually combine with the main web UI to make a scalable universal interface... in the short to medium term, we expect to use these designs for the mobile web / mobile app UI, a great place to experiment where today we have a blank state.
Mockup images & the ideas behind this design direction are on mediawiki.org, please give feedback!
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena>
The full-size screen & video recording of the session is now on Commons (1280x800, about 45 minutes, ~500 mb):
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athena-brownbag-brandon-harris-2011-11-04.ogv>
and also a lower-resolution version which may play smoother inline (640x400, ~115 mb):
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athena-brownbag-brandon-harris-2011-11-04-small.ogv>
(Thanks to Roan for importing the oversize video files to Commons for me!)
If there's interest I'd love for us to do more of these kinds of sessions showing things that we're working on "at the office" to keep everybody in the loop and socialize ideas more during the early stages... we could probably rig up real-time streaming so people not at the office can watch live and participate (questions via IRC?).
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
Lead Software Architect
Wikimedia Foundation