On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thinking of this email and the "lack of time" answers...
Would it make sense to have periodical UX sprints where we would focus on
certain item(s) at
https://www.mediawiki.org/**
wiki/User_experience_review_**queue<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_…
Those sprints would be scheduled ahead and would be planned and promoted
as group activities involving the developers of the features reviewed,
members of this list and anybody else interested.
A bit in the style of
https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/QA/Weekly_goals<https://www.mediawiki.o…
but starting with one sprint per month.
This could raise the attention (and the fun) around this queue and our
design related activities in general.
This sounds suspiciously like LevelUp or 20% time for design work.
To be blunt: things get left behind because that's how prioritization
works. I think designers et al. should lend a hand to design review of
items like Commons gadgets when and if they have spare time, but if they
don't, it's a consequence of the fact that more important work is taking
our focus.
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.
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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/