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.
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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! :-)
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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!
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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."
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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? :)
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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
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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?
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation