[Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

[Tim Starling]

On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote:
> MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
> 
> The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
> emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff
> inside of my email when I get notification about changing my talk page).

The main problem is that they are plain text instead of HTML. You
don't really need a designer to make that change, all our developers
know how to use HTML.

> But, then I've realized that we don't have a designer. By "designer" I
> mean a person who is employed by WMF and who is constantly working on
> improving MediaWiki look and feel.

Actually we have two: Brandon Harris and Parul Vora.

-- Tim Starling