[Foundation-l] Design for wikipedia's front page (and corporate)

[Ben Yates]

Alright, cool.  Of particular intrest to me was also the note from
Catherine Morley:

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"If you decide to go the pro-bono route, what Wikipedia needs to do is
put out a call for portfolios, select one designer (or design company)
with a fit to work pro-bono, write up a detailed design brief, agree
on ONE person as a contact between the designer and Wikipedia (no
designer in their right mind would agree to design by committee as it
hinders the process on both sides), then work closely to create your
new look and feel.

If you need help with the process just drop me a line and I'll walk
you through it. In addition to supporting your pro-bono design call on
NO!SPEC (www.no-spec.com), Creative Latitude
(www.creativelatitude.com) would also put out an email to our members
to alert them of your needs, as well as request that they pass it
around.

Wikipedia can also get the message out via design forums, design
blogs, adland ... and possibly BoingBoing. We'd be happy to assist
with some of this (note: we have no ins with BoingBoing).

-- Catherine Morley Project Manager: NO!SPEC & Creative Latitude"
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I think we should cast a pretty wide net, starting with feelers out
into the general design community -- discussion forum posts, etc -- to
get a sense of what they think the best thing to do is and maybe start
building interest/momentum.  (Catherine's advice looks good to me, but
it's also prudent to double-check.)


On 5/18/06, Łukasz Garczewski <tor at oak.pl> wrote:
> Ben Yates napisał(a):
> > It honestly
> > doesn't seem like a very important issue right now considering the
> > number of improvements that could potentially be made if we were to
> > set the issue aside for now.
> >
> Quite right.
> > For example: has wikimedia/wikipedia ever been formally tested for
> > usability, to see (in hard data) how the interface could be improved?
> >
> Well... Gandalf (Mozilla Europe Board Member, Lead Developer of Aviary
> PL etc.) has thrown one example of bad (usability- and
> accessibility-wise) design after the other at us during the meetup I
> mentioned. But I don't think he did a thorough test. I do know that he
> is a pro and that he was the first person I though of when I saw the
> overhaul proposal.
>
> I am going to try to contact him this weekend and get him involved in
> this. Will keep you posted.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Łukasz "TOR" Garczewski
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Ben Yates
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