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Statement of Purpose

At Wikimedia, 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.

Design Principles

Design with Others

We collaborate with others through means of 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?


Read more about the background for this work.

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

area 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. 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. Robin Schoenbaechler
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

area managed by Nicolas Ayoub, with Amin Al Hazwani

Growth The Growth team focuses on features to encourage activation and retention of new editors on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. 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
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. Julieta Fernandez
Language and Product Localization The Language and Product Localization team focuses on reducing barriers to access and share knowledge. Main focus is to reduce knowledge gaps across languages with content and section translation. This team was created as the union of the former Inuka and Language teams. Pau Giner and Sudhanshu Gautam Languages & Content Growth

area managed by Pau Giner

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. Gregory Onyeahialam
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. Bárbara Martínez,

Derek Torsani

Platforms

area 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
MediaWiki & Data Platform Engineering teams The MediaWiki Engineering Group specializes in working with MediaWiki and various parts of its core software, whilst the Data Platform Engineering team comprises data teams and systems from across the Product and Technology department with a goal to deliver end-to-end data capabilities for data producers and consumers. Sarai Sanchez
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. Katie Coleman, Joydeep Sengupta Trust and Safety

area managed by Katie Coleman

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. Joydeep Sengupta (FOTW project), Wishes design support on a by-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

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