On 03/01/2013 11:05 AM, Steven Walling wrote:
In my view, the healthier solution is not to try and
grab more time from
paid design staff with schedule UX sprints, but to recruit volunteer
designers.
Agreed. QA sprints are a way to recruit QA volunteers (not the only one)
and UX sprints could be also one way to recruit volunteer designers.
Maybe we can run those sprints at a community level, and if WMF
designers have time to join - great. If not, no problem.
Then again there is another problem: can WMF be a blocker of the UX
review queue if there are not enough resources to keep it moving? Maybe
those sprints could be useful to find out whether an item in that queue
is good enough, or to discuss and file bugs about specific issues.
For instance, in the case of the Commons gadgets waiting in the queue:
wouldn't be useful to have a one week sprint to discuss and decide the
quality of the proposals? What is the Commons community and the
volunteering designers that joined share an opinion at the end of the
week? No matter what is the outcome it would be probably better than
keeping waiting.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
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