This is probably old news for a lot of you, but still wanted to share
with those who've not seen it:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
A bit overloaded in terms of the visual effects, but IMO still lots of
great UX ideas in there for a more immersive reader experience.
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hi, design folks,
I added three items to the UX review queue [1].
These are three Wikimedia Commons gadgets, enabled be default for all
(including unlogged), and "user-centered" : the "How to reuse this file"
buttons, the slideshow, and the large image viewer.
They most certainly need some design review, and I was hoping you folks
could help with it, if time allows.
If I can be of any help, I would be happy to.
Cheers,
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Jean-Frédéric
[1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_experience_review_queue>
P.S. Thanks to Sumana for explaining to me how to get help with design
stuff. :-)
The Language Engineering team is in the process of redesigning the Translate
extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate>.
The Translate extension turns MediaWiki into a localisation platform, and
it is used in Meta-Wiki, mediawiki.org and a few other Wikimedia wikis, as
well as other opensource projects, to make them available in multiple
languages.
We are planning to do a walkthrough for the latest revision of the designs
tomorrow.
Since the extension is used by many different projects and users, we want
to make this meeting open to get feedback from anyone interested.
So we welcome you to join us in the discussion:
*When.* Wednesday 27 of February at 8:30 PST (San Francisco), 16:30 UTC
(UK), 17:30 CET (most of Europe), and 22:00 IST (India).
*What.* During the meeting we'll discuss information from our design
specification<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Translate-workflow-spec.pdf>
and the current implementation available at
translatewiki.net<http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&tux=1>.
Feel free to take a look to the docs or try the new UI before the event.
*How* to participate. The event will be broadcasted using Google Hangouts
On Air, so that it can be seen live or accessed later. We'll share the URL
as the event approaches. The #mediawiki-i18n IRC channel will be used to
get questions from the audience.
If you are interested in entering the hangout for a face-to-face
participation, you can ping me and I'll send an invite as long as there are
free seats remaining.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
Pencil <http://pencil.evolus.vn/> is a Firefox-based tool to create
clickable prototypes.
It has several templates to export the prototypes as an interactive HTML
prototype, but none was suitable for testing with users. That forced me to
tweak the generated CSS to remove extra navigation elements and adjust the
layout.
Finally I refactored those adjustments as a Pencil template that others can
use. For those interested, the template is available for
download<https://github.com/pauginer/pencil-showcase-template/raw/master/pencil-show…>and
the project
is hosted at GitHub <https://github.com/pauginer/pencil-showcase-template>.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi, fyi.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Proposal: name and logo for Amsterdam Hackathon
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:37:42 -0800
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Organisation list for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2013
<hackathon-org(a)lists.wmnederland.nl>
Hi, as promised in the meeting today:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Proposal_for_n…
Looking forward to your opinions.
I will forward this to Erik, Jay, Design mailing list and the MediaWiki
Group Promotion to see if there is more feedback, asking anybody to
reply in that thread.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
