Wikimedia Product Design Team. Designing for @Wikimedia, @Wikipedia and beyond.
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2014
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In exciting news, the @Wikimedia's Design System team has unveiled the new system Codex in version 1.0 for wide usage. Get the best and latest in design and engineering resources and tools, #a11y compliance, and multilingual & #i18n support. Backed by us in @WikimediaDesign.
Excited to announce Codex 1.0 – the new design system for @Wikimedia.
Providing more equitable experiences for all Wikimedians & streamline the design and building of consistent user interfaces.
The Design Systems Team is not just making changes – we're setting new standards.
Today, as we celebrate #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay, @Wikimedia's vision of a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge is perfectly aligned.
Join us as we unite forces and break down further barriers.
#GAAD #DiversityAndInclusion
Revisiting on #GAAD – How the new Wikipedia design focused on accessibility, released earlier this year…
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In our latest blog post, Sneha Patel, Lead UX Designer for the Structured Data team, explains how searching has improved on Wikipedia.
design.wikimedia.org/blog/20…
uxdesign.cc/improving-search…
Have you already had a look on how @derrellwilliams brought 26 people, 5 continents, 14 countries, 9 time zones together? And how he applied #designthinking to planning of such team offsite… design.wikimedia.org/blog/20…
Congratulations to everyone involved in the Design team at @Wikimedia Foundation & to the dedicated @Wikipedia volunteers worldwide who collaborated on this fresh new look. The exciting update was made possible by the strong focus on design research and UX in the entire process.
On using a feminist framework to understand harassment on @Wikipedia and build products that make Wikipedia safer for all genders… design.wikimedia.org/blog/20… by our own Aishwarya Vardhana
Hey, check out this egg-laying wool-milk-pig — said no one ever. @scblr and @ItsJazTanner just published an article on how designing for customization led to inclusion on Wikipedia, and what an imaginary animal has to do with it. wikimediadesign.medium.com/h…
English Wikipedia today features Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD #GAAD2022 – raising awareness about digital access/inclusion, a topic close to @WikimediaDesign's heart and @Wikimedia's mission.
English @Wikipedia is featuring tomorrow's Global #Accessibility Awareness Day in its “On this Day” section. Happy start into #GAAD everyone!
As result of a fruitful collaboration with the Wikimedia Accessibility User Group t.me/wikimedia_accessibility and admins, myself as ideator
ALT “On this day” section on English Wikipedia 18 May 2022 featuring tomorrow's Global Accessibility Awareness Day
The @Wikimedia Foundation's newest platform, Wikifunctions, is launching this year! Product designer Aishwarya Vardhana explains the design journey here: design.wikimedia.org/blog/20…
Replying to a conversation publicly is challenging as it is, but if the editing tools are hard to use - do you give up? Principal Designer @iamjessklein shares some design tactics for keeping @Wikipedia discussion page contributors engaged. design.wikimedia.org/blog/20…
The @Wikipedia Android app just became more #accessible. @cooltey's article explains and let you compare the improvements provided!
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Senior Design Manager @lucyblackwell shares an activity to surface and embrace diversity within your team. lucyblackwell.medium.com/sur…
“…we follow a philosophy that has been paved by artists, designers, and architects” — @scblr on designing Wikipedia apps
“Instead of creating one more cheap and fast mass feature, we follow a philosophy that has been paved by artists, designers, and architects (...).”
I just wrote an article on designing apps at @Wikipedia, together with my friends @carolynlimadeo @baba786 @Volker_E. Check it out!
Anti-harassment tools team designer @prtksxna shares how the team is balancing the needs of patrollers and unregistered editors on the wikis. 👉🏾 design.wikimedia.org/blog/20… or wikimediadesign.medium.com/p…
Congratulations to our own @pauginer and the Wikimedia Foundation Language team!
@baba786 explains how the WMF Inuka Team improved the Wikipedia reading experience on feature phones to accommodate the unique needs and preferences of historically underrepresented users. Read on our Design Blog design.wikimedia.org/blog/20… or on Medium wikimediadesign.medium.com/i…
We are all excited! Congratulations @margeigh, our new Vice President of Product Design.
We are excited to announce the appointment of two new Vice Presidents: @AnushaA100 as Vice President of Communications, and @Margeigh as Vice President of Product Design! Learn more about them. ⬇️ wikimediafoundation.org/news…
Our own Alex Hollender, designer for Readers Web, describes his team's process for thoroughly and thoughtfully designing an updated @Wikipedia reading experience. diff.wikimedia.org/2021/08/1…
It’s been ~3 years since we started experimenting with designs aimed at getting more newcomers to edit Wikipedia. The Growth team’s product designer @reetssydney tells the story of how we’ve found success in “nurturing newbies” in small, steady steps: design.wikimedia.org/blog/20…