Wikimedia Product Design Team. Designing for @Wikimedia, @Wikipedia and beyond.
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2014
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Discover how @WikimediaDesign planned an offsite that united team members from 5 continents, 14 countries, and 9 time zones. Read how it improved collaboration and fostered a culture of creativity in this inspiring read by @derrellwilliams:
design.wikimedia.org/blog/20…
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Discover insights on why we've been creating and how we crafted a richer and enhanced #designsystem: Codex, Design System for Wikimedia. Follow us on the journey to elevate the #design landscape of one of the largest open knowledge communities. diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/2…
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Designing a customized and distraction-free reading experience lead to more #inclusion on Wikipedia. Read why in this article by @ItsJazTanner and me:
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ALT How designing for customization lead to inclusion on Wikipedia – header image.
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Oops!…I –ahem, We– Did It Again. I played with your version numbers. Got lost in the game: Internet Explorer 9 and 10 are removed from @mediawiki powering @Wikipedia. Wham! #2022 phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2… And it does mean that I'm serious.
What did you do last couple of weeks? Building reusable rockets to Mars? Working on a vaccine for a global pandemic? I've spearheaded removal of Internet Explorer 8 support on @Wikipedia's software @mediawiki. Boom! #2020 phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2…
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The encyclopedia anyone can edit only works when everyone can communicate about content. Read about our work to help more people take part in discussions. design.wikimedia.org/blog/20… #Wikipedia @WikimediaDesign
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Improving search on Wikimedia Commons buff.ly/3CUvNdk — by @WikimediaDesign
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Happy #EarthDay2021 release: Dark mode on English @Wikipedia for all logged-in users to save #energy on their OLED devices while browsing your favorite knowledge resource. Check Preferences > Gadgets > Dark mode and enjoy. #EarthDay #ClimateAction
ALT English Wikipedia in dark mode via gadget
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I think hiring processes need to be much more transparent for the applicants, so I've just written a blog post about how we hire designers at Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)! lucyblackwell.medium.com/how…
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Do you have an iPhone? If so, have you tried out the Wikipedia Top Read widget?
From @Gizmodo: "the Top Read widget gives you instant access to information about anything that's currently trending." gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-…
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Obvious Always Wins – the @Wikipedia edition. Here’s a Before and After comparison of the article search in the official Wikipedia for #Android app. If you’re interested in more details, check out the #usability test findings here: phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2…
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@WikimediaDesign Style Guide has reached 500+ commits in 400+ pull requests by 22 code contributors and many more in Design team yesterday. It has been starred 60 times so far, which makes it one of the popular @Wikimedia repos on Github github.com/wikimedia/Wikimed… Come contribute!
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Wow. 📸👀
Rodney Ee won @WikiCommons Photo of the Year for this image of a traditional Indonesian bull race. @CC_ID
This is the @Wikicommons Photo of the Year.
Learn more: medium.com/freely-sharing-th…
Photo by Rodney Ee/”eastcoastrod”, CC BY 2.0.
ALT wo bulls scrabble for footing, sending mud flying everywhere, as they race down a rice field. Behind them, a solitary man is holding onto their tails for dear life.
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More than happy about both, strong continuous commitment by org leadership & the @Wikimedia Movement volunteers in being (more) inclusive meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stra… Contributed in collaboration with @cameliaboban, @marcmiquel & @jorgevargas to the 2030 Movement Strategy. Happy #GAAD
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Tomorrow is Global Accessibility awareness day! @mseckington & @mattbee inspired me to write this – Designing an inclusive and accessible product: Yes we can! via @FutureLearn link.medium.com/drl1WiY4D6 #accessibility #inclusive #YesWeCan #Technology #GAAD @BarackObama @uxdesigncc
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Have you ever asked yourself what #free and #OpenSource software @Wikimedia provides?
Come see the newly overhauled doc.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Open Source landing page… Kudos to @TimoTijhof cc: @mediawiki @wikimediatech
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Every January, Wikimedia's staff gather in #SanFrancisco for our annual All Hands event. Follow @iamjessklein's experience through her sketchbook of sights, sessions, and surprise speeches. ⤵️ medium.com/@iamjessklein/wik…
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Can we share human knowledge in a more inclusive way? Rita Ho is Lead Designer at @WikimediaDesign the organization that hosts @Wikipedia. At #DesignMatters20 she'll talk about how they're helping non English speaking communities create more content in their own languages.
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Moreover we've ensured, that the wikimediafoundation.org website is free of #accessibility errors. Numerous colleagues have been involved in this successful relaunch, @nirzardp as lead, @prtksxna & @GregVarnum (again) to mention a few. (IV/IV)
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…an official #Accessibility Statement to wikimediafoundation.org that
emphasizes our vision to include every single human being wikimediafoundation.org/acce… … @wikimedia (II/IV)