Everyone,
It is my great pleasure to welcome Kaity Hammerstein to the User Experience
team. Kaity joins us as a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati
School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning with a degree in Graphic
Communication Design.
Kaity joins our Wikimedia Foundation as an Associate UX Designer, and will
be working with the team on everything from mobile, to content translation,
Flow, Wikipedia Zero, multimedia initiatives, and upcoming theme changes
and onboarding and learning. Kaity’s focus for her senior thesis was how
interaction design can improve the relationship of a user to journalistic
content and media. Her experience in both Interaction Design and Visual
Design will be a great addition to the group.
Kaity has worked with Cooper and Apple (twice) as an intern and has
experience working with a range of platforms. She enjoys working with
people from many different disciplines, such as engineers, artists and
writers. She is thrilled to be part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission
and looks forward to becoming more involved in volunteer opportunities. She
enjoys exploring the beautiful Bay Area and baking pastries.
Photo of Kaity — http://cl.ly/RAll
Kaity will be sitting with my team in our new space in the Northwest corner
of the 3rd floor, please come and introduce yourself.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia
Foundation
M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
http://ee-prototype.wmflabs.org is for now the Velvet Revolver of UX
changes, where you can see how they play together. As the main page says
before spammers get hold of it:
MediaWiki core on this server has UX patches that change the appearance of
the site:
- *Trevor!* I63e073b4 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52169/> "Add
Agora mw-ui-button classes to various buttons"
- *Jon Robson! *Ica0b69ad
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79948/>"Apply mobile typography
lessons to Vector on desktop"
- *Mark Holmquist! *Ia215c587
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74662/>"Implement agora-style
checkboxes experimentally"
- - - -
Try logging in at http://ee-prototype.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin to
see all three jamming. Try editing a random page to see an edit (source)
form with Agora buttons.
I hope to soon have the *Jorm! *Agora Flow prototype on it, though until
someone merge its CSS into mediawiki-ui it'll be a solo project.
(Naming the patches is not to ignore the contributions of many other
people.)
Rock on,
--
=S Page Feeetures supporting engineer
Matmarex has submitted a patch set to remove the font stack that is used
in certain parts of the interface (e.g. login, signup, post-edit feedback).
This triggered a re-opening of discussion at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44394 , which had been
dormant for a while.
To summarize:
There are basically two reasonable directions:
1. Pull out the custom stack used in these isolated parts of the
interface. Matmarex and Ori favor this approach.
2. Do a global Vector font stack. Initially, I would recommend we just
use the body stack (which is really the subject of the bug), and
consider the heading later.
I think #2 is the right direction, and I recommend we get serious about
it. But if people don't think we can do #2 in a reasonable period of
time, we should do #1.
Please reply at the bug
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44394)
Matt Flaschen
Hi design folks,
At some point during the Wikimania DevDays, Benoît and I teamed up to
imagine & try a few quick tweaks to Wikimedia Commons interface.
What we achieved in the end is a big “Upload a file” (« Importer un fichier
» in French) button on the French-language main page. [1] [2] Our rationale
was that it is unreasonable to have people look for the tiny link in the
left menu bar.
Any thoughts on this? Good, bad, ugly?
I will probably suggest on the Village Pump in the next few days to have it
on the English-language Main Page too (though the discussion will probably
drift in the necessity of redesigning completely said main page and ending
up nowhere in the end, or that we need a Guided Tour for that, or etc. ;-þ)
[1] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accueil>
[2] Diff <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AAccueil%2FEnt%C3…
>
Cheers,
--
Jean-Frédéric
In case you haven't seen, User:Rillke on Commons has implemented a
(default-on!) gadget that makes it possible to subscribe to
notifications of different types, e.g. policy changes, new features,
etc. These are shown as watchlist banners and upon login.
Here's a screenshot of the "subscription" interface:
http://i.imgur.com/gdImENz.png
IMO that type of gadget lends supports to the notion of shooting for a
subscription model to be ultimately integrated with Echo so that users
can get standard read-once notifications about things they care about
while keeping the core UI clutter-free.
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
