Statement of Purpose
Design at Wikimedia Foundation makes sharing of all human knowledge easy and joyful. For everyone.
The Foundation Product Design team's goal is to ensure that Wikimedia products and communications follow a design process centered on the user. Based on research to understand people’s needs and motivations, we explore solutions that meet those needs.
We design in the open with a transparent and participatory process. We collaborate within the Wikimedia Foundation and with the global community of contributors. We create well-designed solutions, together.
Read more about the
background for this statement of purpose
.
About the team
The product design and design research team has over 500 years of combined
user experience design
and research, engineering,
information architecture
,
HCI
,
visual design
, and
usability
experience.
Product Design
Design Research
The Product Design team works closely with Design Research (also known as Design Strategy). More info on their team page
here
.
Process
How to get involved and work with us
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.
A few ways to help out by volunteering your time:
Projects
Product teams
Many
(but not all)
of our cross-disciplinary product teams have a UX designer embedded into the team, where they focus on the User Experience (UX) for the team. Here's a list of the teams in which designers are currently working.
Team
|
Description
|
Designer
|
Area of focus
|
Web
|
The
Web Team
focuses on the reading experience.
|
Justin Scherer
|
Consumers
Managed by
Carolyn Li-Madeo
|
Android
|
The
Android team
focuses on building inclusive mobile-first experiences, equitably filling knowledge gaps and increasing quality contributions to Wikipedia.
|
Robin Schoenbaechler
|
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.
|
Olga Tichonova
|
Editing
|
The
Editing team
work on products for editing?generally across MediaWiki, and the suite of
editors
including
VisualEditor
, as well as initiatives that facilitate more productive contributions (such as
On-wiki collaboration
and
Edit Check
).
|
Nicolas Ayoub
|
Contributors
Managed by
Rita Ho
|
Growth
|
The
Growth team
focuses on features to encourage activation and retention of new editors on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
|
Julieta Fernandez
|
Moderator Tools
|
The
Moderator Tools
team focuses on content moderation needs and processes, including page protection, deletion, reporting, and recent changes patrolling.
|
Aishwarya Vardhana
|
Campaigns
|
The
Campaigns Team
is focused on building tools to help
campaign and event organizers
effectively engage participants as successful editors and retain them as contributors on Wikimedia projects.
|
Gregory Onyeahialam
|
Languages
|
The
Languages team
focuses on reducing barriers to access and share knowledge. main focus is on
content
and
section
translation to support the translation of Wikipedia articles into more languages.
|
Pau Giner
|
Languages & Content Growth
Managed by
Pau Giner
|
Inuka
|
The
Inuka team
focuses on aligning with the needs of audiences from historically underserved communities, and regions of recent digital growth, particularly through mobile devices.
|
Sudhanshu Gautam
|
Abstract Wikipedia
|
The
Abstract Wikipedia Team
is focused on building
Wikifunctions
and Abstract Wikipedia, both efforts towards a multilingual Wikipedia where more people can share more knowledge in more languages.
|
Amin Al Hazwani
|
Design System
|
The
Design System team
focuses on creating, maintaining and improving the Wikimedia Design System that provides the building blocks for everything we do.
|
Barbara Martinez
,
Derek Torsani
|
Platforms
Managed by
Matthew Williams
|
Structured Content
|
The
Structured Data Across Wikimedia team
is focused on structuring content on wikitext pages in a way that will be machine-recognizable and relatable, to make reading, editing, and searching easier and more accessible across projects and on the Internet.
|
Sneha Patel
|
Trust and Safety Product
|
The
Trust and Safety Product team
focuses on features to increase digital, and physical safety on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
|
Joydeep Sengupta
,
Katie Coleman
|
Trust and Safety
Managed by
Joydeep Sengupta
|
Community Tech
|
The
Community Tech Team
is focused on equity and community impact, building and improving curation and moderation tools crowdsourced from experienced users through the
Community Wishlist Survey
.
|
Supported on a project basis
|
Community Tech
Managed by
Joydeep Sengupta
|
Design resources
Our resources for majority of our work are public and in open source projects. Have a look at the
Wikimedia Design Style Guide
(on
Github
) and its
Resources section
.
When designing with us bear in mind our
Design best practices
.
All our graphics assets are licensed under open licenses (but note that many of the logos are
trademarked
). All our user interface development is public in open source projects.
Reach out or stay up-to-date
Archived, obsolete resources
For historical context:
Design Fellow Alumni