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Re: [Design] Commons app design input wanted: reconciling upload details/add category screens
by Tomasz Finc 14 May '13

14 May '13

Thanks Jared. What are you thoughts on pre vs post category addition ? --tomasz On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jared Zimmerman <jzimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > The variable height is nice for the panoramic images especially. It would > certainly require us to come up with something different in the detail > views. > > …will give it some more thought. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 12, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Here's a quickie alternate mockup of the gallery & detail screens: > https://brionv.com/misc/commons-mockup/ > Source at https://github.com/brion/commons-mockup > > Mockup uses actual items from this month's Picture of the Day feed. > > This explores the more 'mosaic'-style model to the gallery view where items > aren't cropped and have variable height. I like this for a single column, > but I'm not satisfied with how it could work sensible in multi-column. > > Clicking/tapping on individual images transitions to a detail screen, with > the image stretched, cropped and darkened in the background as we currently > do on Android's title/description screen. We can imagine a fancier > transition, such as animating the image from its place in the gallery view > as it zooms in to the full screen (oooh!) but I didn't mock up the > transition yet. ;) > > Detail screen contents are based on one of Jared's mockups, using a more > compact category view. The items on the detail screen load asynchronously, > so be warned they jump around a bit. We'd want to make such things much > smoother "for real" of course... we'd also probably use this screen to > provide sharing controls, etc. > > If the categories, description etc are large, we can easily go beyond a > screenfull, and have to scroll this screen. Should the background image stay > still during scrolling or should it move a little, parallax-y? (ooooh more > visual effects) > > Do we want to use the detail screen as the data-entry screen on new uploads > as well, or keep them distinct? > > Do we need a separate 'view image' screen that can handle pan/zoom? > > How will we scale this up on tablets? > > Thoughts, ideas? > > -- brion > > > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> Thanks Brion. >> >> Vibha & Jared, it would be great to get you guys to weigh in on this. >> --tomasz >> >> >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> > Currently we have very different upload detail and add-category screens >> > between Android and iOS versions of the Wikimedia Commons uploader app. >> > >> > I've put descriptions and quick comparative videos on mediawiki.org: >> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Apps/Commons/Categories >> > >> > Impressions and ideas welcome! >> > >> > >> > (Y'all can try the Android version with categorization from Google Play >> > -- >> > the iOS version in the App Store doesn't yet have categories but you can >> > try >> > the older version to get a feel for the layout and the first data entry >> > screen. For those on the beta group, there'll be a push via TestFlight >> > later >> > today.) >> > >> > -- brion >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Design mailing list >> > Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >

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Re: [Design] Commons app design input wanted: reconciling upload details/add category screens
by Brion Vibber 13 May '13

13 May '13

Jared was showing me an iOS app that has a cool-looking (but IMO a little disorienting) tablet view with the mosaic model... I'll record a screencast so y'all android folks can see what it looks like. ;) Not sure I like it but it's a good thing to compare against. -- brion On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > I'll note that if we start doing variable heights we need a solution for > multiple items in the same row of differing heights - for tablets and > phones in landscape mode. When we last looked around for 'MosaicView' > widgets there weren't any good ones, so we might have to build our own if > we go that way. Not sure about the situation on iOS though. >

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Commons iOS beta signup
by Brion Vibber 13 May '13

13 May '13

Reminder for folks interested in testing beta versions of the Commons app for iOS: you must register on TestFlight.app or you'll only have access to the App Store builds which are way behind what we're working on! Register for the beta team at http://tflig.ht/Zl9Ef7 -- then don't forget to go to http://testflightapp.com/ on your iPhone/iPod/iPad and register the device! Without this step we won't be able to include you. Note that Android betas don't require registration; we'll also be updating in the Google Play store more often than in the Apple App Store. -- brion

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Flow Prototype
by Brandon Harris 10 May '13

10 May '13

I have thrown together an interactive prototype of Flow. It's fairly functional and I intend to make it even more so. You can play with it here: http://elohim.gaijin.com/flow/ Nothing is saved to disk. You can reply to topics or even add new ones but on refresh everything reverts to state. Right now, the "you" you are logged into is "Jorm" but I'll be adding functionality to handle that. In the sidebar are a couple links to various "board examples": * Fully Chaos (everything is generated randomly.) * Jimmy Wales * Maggie Dennis (Moonriddengirl) * Me * A single topic (this is what you get to if you get an echo notification) Speaking of, if you click the echo badge, and then click on the unread notification, you'll get the experience of the user getting a reply and going to the single conversation view. You can also click the "Feed" link and you'll be brought to your feed. The "feed" view is different from the "Board" view. The feed is private - it's all the conversations that you my be interested in or are subscribed to (have a solid star). You also see activity from the boards of *people* you're subscribed to as well, but it floats away fairly quickly if you don't subscribe to it. Known bugs: * The "New Topic" dialog doesn't close when you click the "X" button. No idea why; it worked the other day and now it doesn't. * Some of the conversations are threaded weird. This is an artifact of the JSON. * The tab highlights are a bit goofy. Upcoming: * The search functionality will work * You'll be able to add and edit tags * Stuff like archive/split/whatever * Edit your own post, etc. Please share your thoughts. --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Design] [EE] [Product] Flow Prototype
by Brandon Harris 09 May '13

09 May '13

On May 9, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > BTW, I found it hilarious that you put words in my mouth to show my fictional comments history for this prototype -- you were actually really close to my character, expressing gratitude profusely, as I'm prone to do. So this is as much a work of art as a technical prowess. Wait? Where did I do that? As far as I remember, you (the real you) didn't show up in the coded/pulled responses, and I know I didn't write any for you. You may have been reading comments that I wrote that the prototype attributes to you after you've "logged in". --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Umeå university interaction design students
by Quim Gil 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hello, I just had a call with Mikael Wiberg, Professor, Head of Department Department of Informatics, Umeå university, Sweden He is now a new member of this list. Hej! They want to get involved in different types of Wikimedia contributions. One area of high interest among their students is interaction design. We could start with a small and quite informal collaboration. From time to time people come here asking for feedback or help about a UX problem, a new workflow, some gadget needing some UX love... These students could simply join the list and get involved in the discussions, bringing feedback and ideas. From there many progressive paths are possible: * Start working on "design" AND "easy" bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=design%2C%20easy%2C%20&… * Help kicking the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_review_queue * Get involved in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Micro_Design_Improvements ? And probably more, but I think it's important to go for first things first, and start with simple feedback to requests made to this list. Welcome Mikael, we hope you bring more participation to this list and we are looking forward to the first results. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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How best to get a heap of changes into the Erudite skin
by Nick White 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hi design list, You may remember me as the person who introduced the Erudite skin a few months ago. Since that time I've made lots of changes to it locally that are almost ready to go back up to the version on Mediawiki's servers. Major changes include: - ability to set a top banner to an your own image in LocalSettings.php - ability to add extra content sections to the columns on the footer using system messages (the same way the main navigation can be customised; editing pages like MediaWiki:Erudite-extracontent-column2) - width is not fixed, but flexes to use the space appropriately - generally heaps of smaller style improvements There are two issues I see in getting the changes upstream, though. 1) Any visible style change seems to have great difficulty being accepted. I found this with a few changes I submitted months ago: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/32035/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/32036/ With the reviews always coming back "fine, needs approval from someone else". I think this may be a more general issue making design changes difficult to do. 2) Partly due to the above difficulties, partly due to my own time pressures, there are a large number of changes between the version currently in git and my current code. Moreover I would like to update the current code to conform to the Mediawiki style guide, but this would make the diff even more massive. I could rejig my code into some separate patches, but they would each be quite large and interdependant. What would be the best way to contribute my improvements? Nick

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Submit OKCon talks by 24 May - travel subsidies available
by Sumana Harihareswara 07 May '13

07 May '13

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/05/07/okcon-2013-call-for-proposals-out-now/ OKCon is the annual conference for Open Knowledge (Foundation), 17th-18th September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. It was called "OKFest" last year. It's a well-attended and well-organized conference for anyone interested in open knowledge, sharing, open hacking, etc. Opportunities for Wikimedia lighting talks, workshops, etc.: - Wikipedia Zero (see Open Development & Sustainability track) - Analytics and open data (see Technology, Tools & Business) (UserMetrics API? privacy? Limn?) - SOPA/PIPA and related activities (see Evidence & Stories) - Hack events: use their hackspace. Teach folks to make bots, gadgets, apps, and Lua templates. Get user testing from other open culture advocates and learn what tools they need. This conference is eligible for subsidy of travel costs -- see Participation Support https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support to put in your request. Thanks to Sarah Stierch for the heads-up. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Free Webinar: Discussing Design - The Art of Critique
by Pau Giner 07 May '13

07 May '13

Mad*Pow are organising a Webinar on April 30 about design critique and getting effective feedback on designs. Those interested can register for free at: http://mpwebinar11.eventbrite.com Pau -- Pau Giner Interaction Designer Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: Jared Zimmerman joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of UX
by Erik Moeller 06 May '13

06 May '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:44 AM Subject: Jared Zimmerman joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of UX To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on the team, contributing his own design work. It’s still a small team (Brandon, Vibha, May, and Pau), but we expect to hire an additional 3-4 designers in the coming 12-18 months. Prior to Wikimedia, Jared was Principal Interaction Designer at Autodesk, where he worked with engineers, visual artists, and user experience researchers to create new software solutions for architecture and design professionals with an emphasis on AutoCAD for Mac and soon to be released online design collaboration tools. Jared has led cross-disciplinary design teams in his roles at Autodesk, Ammunition Group, and iconmobile, including creative direction. At Autodesk, he was part of the transition to agile development and helped his design teams apply those principles to their work. During his time there he worked with design management to establish designers as product owners in the scrum process, to further integrate them into the development process from start to finish, as well as teaching his team best practices for use of agile design tools. Jared has degrees in Graphic Design (BGD) and Fine Art Photography (BFA) from the Rhode Island School of Design. His photography has been in featured in publications such as Travel + Leisure Magazine, ZonaRetiro, and Huffington Post. In addition to starting in his new job, Jared is also planning his wedding in July to his fiancée Shannon. [1] In his spare time Jared is wrapping up a remodel to their home, working on his first iPhone app, experimental cooking, photographing the bay area & abroad [2], and answering questions on Quora. [3] I look forward to Jared’s leadership in helping elevate a delightful, consistent and efficient User Experience to becoming a key measure of success for our work. Please join me in welcoming Jared! :-) Erik [1] http://shannonbadiee.com/ [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/spoinknet/ [3] https://www.quora.com/Jared-Zimmerman/answers -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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