Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Hi Isarra, somehow I missed your email from the 16th and only just noticed it when I saw Kevin's response, which I think is totally spot on. I've added some additional responses inline below: On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:16 PM Isarra Yos wrote: > Okay, so you want to clarify... something, and build

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Hi everyone, a friendly reminder that if you would like to share your perspective on the draft statement of purpose , please do so no later than this coming Sunday, 27 November, 2016. Big thanks to everyone who has been a part of the disc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

I have only been peripherally involved with the process leading to this draft statement. My perception is that this statement is merely the first step, to lay a foundation for shared understanding. Once that has happened, then more interesting details will come. If this baby step is non-controversi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Well said. P -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Isarra Yos Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2016 2:16 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose Okay, so you want

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Okay, so you want to clarify... something, and build trust. What needs clarifying? What has been unclear? For whom, and building trust with whom? Are these even the right questions? A problem here, from what you're saying, seems to be that things with Design have been historically overly compl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Overall I like the statement on wiki. Quick question though: "rigorous research" can be very time consuming, very expensive, and probably difficult to do well given Wikimedia's vast number of languages, number of projects, and multiple platforms. Could this be made more nuanced? Other than that, I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Hi Isarra, thanks for the excellent questions. Here's my attempt to answer them: The purpose of the statement of purpose is to gain clarity and build trust within the design group and with their principle stakeholders. With the statement itself, we seek to gain clarity and shared understanding abo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

I'm going to ask this here since the talkpage on-wiki is a flow board and I find those very difficult to use, but I'm a bit unclear what the purpose of this is. All the things listed sound good in theory, but the language is ambiguous and very high level, to the point where it's hard to see how

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Hello all, Over the past few months the Design team members at the Wikimedia Foundation (user experience [UX] designers, design researchers, user experience engineers, and communications) have been working with Arthur Richards from the Team Practices Group to identify the high-level themes that mo