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We design with and for curious humans who rely on trustworthy content.
We as a design team work with a global community of humans who come from different experiences and places, with different goals. We are ever-evolving, learning, and growing. We remain open to change and feedback.
When making design decisions, we are guided by our principles. We use these guidelines to hold ourselves and each other accountable. We invite the broader community to engage with our design work on the basis of our Design Principles.
Team
Design Principles
Design with Others
We collaborate with others through inclusion of ideas, research sessions, and working as openly as possible.
- Is this design the outcome of collaboration?
- Did we listen to and learn from people with different backgrounds and perspectives?
- Have we learned from the target audience that their needs are met?
For Curious Humans
We welcome and consider a universal audience, striving to remove barriers to accessing knowledge which satisfies human curiosity.
- Is this design accessible, inclusive, and equitable?
- Does this idea encourage or allow for adaptability based on the preference of the person using it?
- Is there opportunity for wonder in the experience?
Trustworthy
We design to enable the sharing and greater understanding of trustworthy knowledge, while maintaining the integrity of people's privacy.
- Are we minimizing the data we collect about people in both our design solution and the process to create it?
- Are we communicating information explicitly and honestly?
- Does this design help users confidently access and share well-sourced, reliable knowledge?
Content First
We aim for content to be at the center of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate its comprehension and use.
- Is this design prioritizing the most contextually important information?
- Is the content presented in a way that supports clear understanding?
- Does this design help make it easy to learn from, improve, and spread content?
Get involved
We welcome help in many ways, but we have limited time and have priorities based on the Foundation's roadmap to focus on. We want to make sure we foster an environment where community designers can contribute to the projects as well as developers.
Join us
Projects
Most of our cross-disciplinary product teams have a designer embedded into the team. Here's a list of the teams in which designers are currently working.
| Team | Description | Designer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Consumers | ||
| Reader Experience (formerly Web team) | Focuses on the reading experience on web. | Sneha Patel |
| Reader Growth (formerly Web team) | Focuses initiatives to attract new readers to Wikipedia. | Justin Scherer |
| Android | The Android team focuses on building inclusive mobile-first experiences, equitably filling knowledge gaps and increasing quality contributions to Wikipedia. | Sarah Chekfa |
| iOS | The iOS team focuses on building mobile first inclusive, consistent, and permeable features to make editing, reading, and participating on Wikipedia intuitive for iOS app users. | Taís Lessa |
| Future Audiences | The Future Audiences Team explores strategies to expand beyond our existing audiences of readers/users and contributors. | Maryyann Crichton |
| Contributors | ||
| Editing | The Editing team works on products for editing—generally across MediaWiki and the suite of editors including VisualEditor, as well as initiatives like on-wiki collaboration and Edit Check. | Nicolas Ayoub and Bárbara Martínez |
| Growth | The Growth team focuses on features to encourage activation and retention of new editors. | Amin Al Hazwani |
| Moderator Tools | The Moderator Tools team focuses on content moderation needs and processes, including page protection, deletion, reporting, and recent changes patrolling. | Olga Tichonova |
| Connection | The Connection team builds tools to help campaign and event organizers engage and retain contributors. | Julieta Fernandez |
| Languages, Content Growth, and Communities | ||
| Language and Product Localization | The Language and Product Localization team focuses on reducing barriers to access and share knowledge (content and section translation). | Pau Giner and Sudhanshu Gautam |
| Abstract Wikipedia | The Abstract Wikipedia team builds Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia toward a multilingual Wikipedia. | Gregory Onyeahialam |
| Community Tech | The Community Tech team improves tools crowdsourced via the Community Wishlist Survey. | Ruth O'Donoghue |
| Product Safety and Integrity | The Product Safety and Integrity team focuses on features to increase digital and physical safety and security on the Wikimedia projects. | Katie Coleman (interim coverage by Kieran McCann), with support from Ruth O'Donoghue |
| Platform | ||
| Codex Design System Steering Committee | Stewardship of Codex priorities and design/engineering resourcing. | Derek Torsani |
| MediaWiki & Data Platform | Core platform engineering and end-to-end data capabilities for data producers and consumers. | Sarai Sanchez |
