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.
--
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,
--
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
--
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
--
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.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
http://openitp.org/?q=openitp_first_round_of_2013_project_funding_now_open_…
OpenITP's first round of 2013 project funding is now open for proposals!
Deadline: 31 March 2013
"OpenITP project grants are meant to support specific technical efforts
to improve users' ability to circumvent censorship and surveillance on
the Internet. "Technical" doesn't have to mean software or hardware --
for example, we also consider efforts to improve user experience through
translation, testing, projects to improve documentation, meetings that
get developers together in person to solve specific problems, etc. The
main thing we're looking for is that your proposed project is finite
(e.g. has a deadline, is scoped) and contributes to OpenITP's core
mission of enabling freedom of communication on the Internet.
We're interested in all good proposals, but note we're especially
receptive to proposals that improve user experience (UX) and in
translation (of both software and documentation). Don't take that as a
filter, though: if you have a good proposal that's not about UX or
translation, we still want to receive it.
While our grants don't have a hard limit, they tend to be in the
$5k-$30k USD range: enough to fund a specific piece of work, or to
provide seed funding for a new idea, but not enough to be a primary
long-term funding source. Therefore we try not to burden applicants with
a lot of bureaucratic overhead and paperwork to apply for a grant. It's
enough to send us a brief description of what you have in mind, and
point to public URLs for further details. Since we only fund open source
work, we expect that most proposals we receive will already have been
discussed in publicly-archived forums anyway, and perhaps written up on
a public web page -- though there may be exceptions, such as projects
that are becoming open source but aren't all the way there yet. In any
case, we're comfortable clicking on links and reading stuff on the Web.
You're not required to package everything up in one PDF to make a
proposal. Just tell us what you want to do, make it easy for us to find
what we need to find, and we'll take it from there. We'll ask you
questions as we have them."
The page also includes examples of things OpenITP funded in their last
round. Please take a look! It would be *amazing* if someone could use
this opportunity to help people read and contribute to Wikimedia safely.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
https://maletsabisam.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/usability-guidelines-for-open…
FLOSS Outreach Program for Women intern Maletsabisa Molapo is working on
a usability guidelines project
"For our User Experience-at-large project, we are working on producing a
guidelines document on how human-centered design techniques can be best
incorporated into the development of Open Source software, to improve
the usability of open source tools....
"Our guidelines document will also seek to answer the question of how,
then, can open source tools be developed to cater for
internationalization and diversity? Recommendations will be made after
our discussions, surveys, and interviews with developers, designers,
product managers, and users.....
"The target audience of the document we are working on is the developers
and designers who contribute to FOSS projects, with focus on developers
of internet surveillance and censorship circumvention tools (free and
open internet tools), the kind that OpenITP particularly works on."
She's tsabi on IRC in case you want to ask her more.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/01/2013-call-for-proposals-now-open/
"Some talks from last year that we really liked and felt captured the
spirit of our event include:
Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a Community,
Brandon Harris"
Congrats, Brandon! :-)
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Development/Contribute/Design
"Are you motivated to make software better? Do you have an eye for
design, usability, or user experience? The Mozilla Developer Network is
looking for motivated individuals to share their thoughts on changes we
make to the site. ....
"Explore your options. Take a look at our progress board
<https://mdn.kanbanery.com/projects/32137/board/>. Everything in the
Design column is ready for discussion. Graphic design, usability, user
experience, and even just opinion. Nothing it out of the question here."
Thought volunteers on this list might be interested in giving it a try!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
I don't have a preference for whether we add the buttons or not, so long as
we don't do anything like what was suggested on the bug, i.e., add a list
of all the userjs- options and let users delete them one by one. I think
that'd be ridiculous and unnecessary.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:26 AM, James Alexander
<jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Thanks Siebrand,
>
> Hopefully we can get more comments in general but I'm going to sleep on
> this and try and respond tomorrow. I'm really worried that there is no good
> way to do this without making it really confusing ... but trying to come up
> with a good alternative. The only option I've come up with so far is
> a separated out 'repair' type option for people having issues (especially
> if it's just one button).
>
> James
>
> James Alexander
> Manager, Merchandise
> Wikimedia Foundation
> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) <
> smazeland(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear designers and other stakeholders,
>>
>> Your input on the following please. If at all possible, please use the
>> bug -- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43960 -- for feedback.
>>
>> MediaWiki has a feature that allows JavaScript to set arbitrary user
>> preferences starting with "userjs-". They are currently in no way exposed
>> in the user interface. The bug requests "Arbitrary userjs- preferences
>> should be shown in the GUI, with the possibility of clearing them
>> one-by-one".
>>
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/48576/ contains a patch set by Tyler
>> that "adds two new buttons to the reset form of Special:Preferences that
>> allow users to reset only registered site settings or only userjs- custom
>> settings. The main reset button still resets all settings as it has always
>> done."
>>
>> We know that our preferences can be very confusing. Adding two more
>> buttons to "do stuff to it" could potentially increase user confusion. I
>> have added Brandon, Munaf and Pau to this patch set as reviewers and I
>> added them as a CC to the bug.
>>
>> Before we are going in a direction with our Special:Preferences that may
>> be contrary to where (a) Wikimedia's designers want to go, or (b) could
>> increase user confusion, I think it is wise to gather some opinions on this
>> issue, and possibly the wider issue of preferences, that James Forrester[1]
>> at one point indicated he would be taking up as a project, but seems be
>> have stalled since then.
>>
>> Thanks for your input!
>>
>> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27258/ (bottom comment states
>> "[..] we're waiting on availability of someone in Product (possibly me) to
>> work out a socialisation plan for informing the community of our intent to
>> significantly simplify preferences."
>>
>> --
>> Siebrand Mazeland
>> Product Manager Language Engineering
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> M: +31 6 50 69 1239
>> Skype: siebrand
>>
>> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
>
>
>
Dear designers and other stakeholders,
Your input on the following please. If at all possible, please use the bug
-- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43960 -- for feedback.
MediaWiki has a feature that allows JavaScript to set arbitrary user
preferences starting with "userjs-". They are currently in no way exposed
in the user interface. The bug requests "Arbitrary userjs- preferences
should be shown in the GUI, with the possibility of clearing them
one-by-one".
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/48576/ contains a patch set by Tyler
that "adds two new buttons to the reset form of Special:Preferences that
allow users to reset only registered site settings or only userjs- custom
settings. The main reset button still resets all settings as it has always
done."
We know that our preferences can be very confusing. Adding two more buttons
to "do stuff to it" could potentially increase user confusion. I have added
Brandon, Munaf and Pau to this patch set as reviewers and I added them as a
CC to the bug.
Before we are going in a direction with our Special:Preferences that may be
contrary to where (a) Wikimedia's designers want to go, or (b) could
increase user confusion, I think it is wise to gather some opinions on this
issue, and possibly the wider issue of preferences, that James Forrester[1]
at one point indicated he would be taking up as a project, but seems be
have stalled since then.
Thanks for your input!
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27258/ (bottom comment states "[..]
we're waiting on availability of someone in Product (possibly me) to work
out a socialisation plan for informing the community of our intent to
significantly simplify preferences."
--
Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Language Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
See attached screenshot.
I spotted this today when making some comments on Le Bistro. Did anyone
working on Agora help the French community, or did they just do it? :)
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Last weekend I attended FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2013/> in Brussels.
Although FOSDEM is "renowned for being highly developer-oriented" as their
website states, there were several interesting talks for designers too:
- Alexandra Leisse presented the design process she is following with
especial emphasis on user research, prototyping, and usability testing. More
info and slides <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/userresearch/>.
- Felipe Erias emphasized the need for rapid prototyping as a means to
quickly exploring the solution space for a design problem. More info and
slides <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/sketching/>.
- Quim Gil gave a lightning talk about how to contribute to MediaWiki,
which included some design tasks for our community to get involved. More
info, slides and
video<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute/Presentation>
.
- Dave Neary gave the talk "Using Personas to Target Users".
Unfortunately, the Wikimedia BoF meeting was set at the same time and I
could not attend. More
info<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/using_personas/>
- Many talks at the Mozilla dev room were related to Mobile and web
technologies such as Firefox OS (view
video<http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2013/maintracks/Janson/Firefox_OS.webm>),
latest CSS improvements (view
info<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/whats_new_in_css/>),
and L10n tools among others. View list of talks from Mozilla dev
room<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/mozilla/>
.
The FOSDEM organisation is uploading the videos, so if you are interested
in any talk, keep checking the information links in the upcoming days since
the recordings will be added soon.
Pau
--
Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
I just saw the launch of a new open source discussions system:
http://www.discourse.org/
Have any of the people working on Flow taken it for a ride? Any thoughts?
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
