Design April 2013

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Re: [Design] [Wikitech-l] Making inter-language links shorter
by Jon Robson 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jon Robson" <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> Date: 19 Apr 2013 00:41 Subject: Re: [Design] [Wikitech-l] Making inter-language links shorter To: "A list for the design team." <design(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: The alpha version (here be dragons more) of the mobile site exposes talk pages in an overlay. Currently working on allowing contribution to this page. Try it out by going to settings opting into beta then going back again and opting into the dragons mode... feedback welcomed! On 19 Apr 2013 00:38, "Mathieu Stumpf" <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote: > Le 2013-04-19 00:12, Brion Vibber a écrit : > >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Mathieu Stumpf >> <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org**> wrote: >> >> Oh by the way, is there an access to discussion pages on the mobile >>> version now? Last time I checked it wasn't accessible directly, but at >>> the begining it wasn't possible to access other languages if I'm not >>> mistaken, so I thought that may also come with an update. >>> >> >> I believe Jon may be working on something to expose talk pages, but >> it's not quite ready yet. We were kind of hoping to wait for a more >> structured discussion system to come into place, but we're still >> waiting on that. >> >> In the meantime, you should be able to jump to them via the search >> box, it just won't be very pretty. :) >> > > My personal work around is: going to the desktop version>going to the talk > page>going to the mobile version > > On mobile following links is, in my experience, easier to do than typing > words. ;) > > -- > Association Culture-Libre > http://www.culture-libre.org/ > > ______________________________**_________________ > Design mailing list > Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/design<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design> >

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Re: [Design] [Wikitech-l] Making inter-language links shorter
by Mathieu Stumpf 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Le jeudi 18 avril 2013 à 12:57 -0700, Brion Vibber a écrit : > On the mobile site we've collapsed the whole thing to an "Other languages" > section or button (depending on if you're in beta mode) at the bottom of > the article, and this seems to have gotten good usability responses from > mobile users. Oh by the way, is there an access to discussion pages on the mobile version now? Last time I checked it wasn't accessible directly, but at the begining it wasn't possible to access other languages if I'm not mistaken, so I thought that may also come with an update.

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how to improve visual & interaction design skills
by Sumana Harihareswara 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

For those of you who haven't obsessively followed Brandon Harris's answers on Quora http://www.quora.com/Brandon-Harris-1/answers -- check out his suggestions on how to improve your skills at interaction design and visual design: http://www.quora.com/Communication-Design/How-can-I-get-good-at-visual-and-… A few key tips from Brandon's answer: design is about understanding problems. Look at problems and try to re-solve the problems you run across every day, both simple and complex. Research why people created existing solutions and made certain decisions, and think about what you'd do differently. Learn to communicate your designs, and practice a lot. Brandon, thanks for the writeup. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Help requested
by Steven Walling 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hey all, Mabdul, an English Wikipedian, is looking for someone with CSS skills to help pretty up the latest version of his Articles for Creation helper script. Discussion at the Village Pump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#CSS For context: Articles for Creation, or AFC, is how new users and IPs can create a draft of an article and request review by an experienced editor. The process is severely backlogged, so enhancements to this script may make a big impact on new editors by speeding up reviews. The script is used somewhat like Twinkle to automate accepting, declining, or reviewing a submission. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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"It's not a web app. It's an app you download from the web."
by Steven Walling 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

I highly recommend you try this out to get a feel for the experience. http://blog.forecast.io/its-not-a-web-app-its-an-app-you-install-from-the-w… -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Favicon
by Steven Walling 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

FYI: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Favicon Started by MZMcBride, original thread on Wikimedia-l. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Today's Inspiration: Transitional Interfaces
by Munaf Assaf 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

https://medium.com/design-ux/926eb80d64e3

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Re: [Design] [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Iconathon Remote Participation
by Waldir Pimenta 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Sorry, but this announcement was frankly too little, too late. I had looked at the Wikimedia blog post, the Noun Project blog post, the eventbrite page, the talk pages of the event pages in mediawiki, meta and wikipedia (btw, why so much duplication? where was the central hub?) and there was nothing even suggesting that remote participation would be possible, or that a hangout could be expected. This is even worse considering that it was asked a while ago ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-March/000423.html) but nobody seems to have answered. Apart from that, where were the results posted? All I found were pictures from the event, spread across several categories. I've collected them on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Iconathon_2013 and cleaned up the other categories they were polluting (e.g. Category:I !!). I would expect the results to be uploaded to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Noun_Project but so far I haven't seen any new icons there. Is this coming soon? Self-answer, after doing a little research: "Afterwards, The Noun Project will take the pen/paper sketches and have their vector artists render them in SVG. They will be released about a month after the event" — from http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-March/000421.html. Yet this wasn't mentioned anywhere in any of the page I listed above. A "results" section would be most welcome for those who weren't able to participate. Related, for anyone interested: I recently came across interesting resources for the kinds of icons that the Noun Project seems to focus on, and tried to organize the categories in commons to make them more findable: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Plain_black_icons (and subcategories) and fontello.com (font-based icons, all of them freely licensed). --Wadir ps - I don't understand why this announcement wasn't also posted to the design mailing list. I'm CC'ing it. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Munaf Assaf <massaf(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > You can watch the iconathon here: > http://youtu.be/sei9SeoObJA > > If you would like to participate in the hangout, please email me, Pau Giner > (pginer(a)wikimedia.org) or Vibha Bamba (vbamba(a)wikimedia.org). > > Thanks! > Munaf > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Prototypes For the Win!!
by Vibha Bamba 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi Team, Saw a relevant little tweet today! [image: Inline image 1] I would encourage us all to do more of this. Anyone can do this using simple things such as keynote to complex css. The positive is that prototypes giv you a real sense of an experience since you find yourself naturally responding to an experience as opposed to thinking about how you might respond. Conversations resulting from playing with a proto are also much more detailed and informed. Reach out if you need help but lets make more prototypes! Vibha

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papers requested re participatory HCI research
by Sumana Harihareswara 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

>From the Wikimedia researchers' mailing list. -Sumana Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:05:14 +0100 From: Jodi Schneider <jschneider(a)pobox.com> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Air-L] CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings Message-ID: <CAP5TGf9127XHyZc_S90qPqGu5iy1U6tQWL88madUR9M3MEL2Vg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" For those doing participatory HCI research, this may be relevant. First deadline July 31st is an indication of interest. Details below. -Jodi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Vines <john.vines(a)newcastle.ac.uk> Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:48 AM Subject: [Air-L] CFP IJHCS Special Issue: Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Apologies for cross-posting ************************** Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Int. Journal of Human-Computer Studies Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles and endings http://di.ncl.ac.uk/participation/special-issue/ ************************** Scope ************************** Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI community. Traditionally, the term has been used to suggest a democratized approach to the design of technology that calls for end-user involvement in the design process. This may vary from researchers inviting specific users or stakeholders to participate in design workshops, through to long term engagements with communities to define research questions and study deployments of new technologies. As HCI is an interdisciplinary field, however, there are multiple understandings of what participation in research might mean, from subjects and disciplines such as social science, participatory and performance arts, international development, and action research. Beyond these influences, there is also increased pressure from funding bodies and public institutions to involve a wider spectrum of the public in academic research. The convergence of these factors has drawn attention to the potential benefits and challenges, both theoretical and practical of involving users and the public in HCI research. While user, citizen or stakeholder participation in design processes can offer great insight into the applicability of technological interventions in certain contexts, the HCI community would benefit from critically reflecting on how participation is planned, managed, and sustained. The mundane yet still significant details of how participatory HCI research is performed are rarely documented and discussed by the community. The coming together of multiple perspectives from different disciplines – some of which have existing frameworks, some debate the very notion of participation – provides an opportunity for HCI researchers to reflect critically on how people are involved in design processes. Specifically, we call attention to the following three phases of performing participatory HCI research: How we begin: How do researchers establish relationships with communities, participants, or users and stakeholders prior to commencing participatory research? Who here determines the research context and the setting it takes place in, or what research questions are formed? Furthermore, what agendas, skills and assumptions do researchers bring to a participatory project? Why are certain participants selected or invited to take part over others? How we reflex and reflect: How do researchers reflect upon and manage the complicated processes of participation and engagement while working with groups or communities? How are researchers and participants given space to document and reflect upon the activities they perform and how does this inform the research or design process throughout? How do we understand our practice when busy doing it and can we develop strategies to elicit generative reflections on practice as it is enacted? Furthermore, is it possible to document participatory work along the way without skewing the process itself? How we end: How do researchers determine whether deployments or interventions should be sustained beyond the formal completion of research, and what are the practical challenges of leaving a legacy of a participatory project? Is sustainability or legacy always positive outcome of participatory research, and are there ways of empirically understanding transformations within a context beyond the uptake or success of a specific technology or intervention? ************************** Topics ************************** This special issue aims to present a set of high quality, thought provoking, original research articles that address one or more of these stages through topics including, but not limited to: -- Empirical studies collaborating with organizations and communities in the design or evaluation of new technologies. -- Studies of participatory HCI that target specific populations or communities, such as older people, young people, activist groups, charities, rural communities, among others. -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks that unpack the questions and related problems of participation as a process. -- Critical reflections on existing and historical examples of participation in HCI. -- Strategies for documenting and eliciting reflection from both researchers and participants engaged in research. -- Considerations of the ethical, moral and political implications of designing technologies with communities of users and stakeholders. -- Interdisciplinary perspectives on participatory HCI research. -- Case studies discussing experiences of beginning, reflecting on or sustaining participatory HCI research. It is anticipated that submissions will tackle at least one stage of participatory research/design processes in use, as described above, and that accepted papers will comprise examples from each phase. Papers addressing theoretical issues will only be considered where the contribution is exceptional. ************************** Paper submission ************************** Authors are requested to contact the guest editors (email: participation.di(a)gmail.com<mailto:participation.di@gmail.com>) prior to making a submission by July 31st 2013 to inform them of their plans to submit to the special issue. All submissions should be made to the IJHCS submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs selecting "SI: participatory HCI" as the Article Type. Full manuscripts should be submitted according to the IJHCS Guide for authors and will be blind refereed. Articles must be based on original research, although extended versions of published conference papers may be acceptable if they contain at least 50% new material. All manuscripts should be submitted online. The IJHCS Guide for authors and online submission is available at http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs. ************************** Key dates ************************** Email guest editors prior to submission: 31st July 2013 Paper due date: 31st August 2013 Review completion date: 15th November 2013 (Notification of 1st review) Re-Submission by: 17th January 2014 Final Acceptance: 21st February 2014 (Notification of 2nd review) Final Version due: 7th April 2014 ************************** Guest Editors ************************** John Vines, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) Rachel Clarke, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) Ann Light, Northumbria University (United Kingdom) Peter Wright, Newcastle University (United Kingdom) _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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