I should note it was a WMF design consultant that did this and not a volunteer (well - that it was not a committee volunteer I can verify). My understanding was they were working from UX team's guidelines as they design other banners for WMF. The request that we received was to go with a banner design that was intentionally not the same as others. However, I will pass the notes along for the next designs.
Also, I recognize it wasn't about the banner's existence or performance - I meant that I hear complaints about the design of nearly every banner that goes up. I cannot, off the top of my head, think of a recent banner that I haven't heard a few folks offer opinions about improving the look of. My personal opinion is that it's an ongoing process, and the banners used often reflect a snapshot in strategies being tried at that exact moment. -greg On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Szymon Grabarczuk < [email protected]> wrote: > Oh, it's not about the idea of banners or about their usual performance, > it's about this particular ribbon. When I set anonnotice or sitenotice on a > big wiki, I aim the statement to be aligned with UX... discoveries. Don't > set extensive dark backgrounds (unless it's about to be > accessibility-oriented), use one colour palette, don't use many icons, > borders or any additional/unnecessary/redundant elements in general, be > consistent. WMF has UX team (it even has a Visual Experience Designer), I > kindly suggest to watch their efforts and make our users benefit from that. > > On 22 April 2015 at 16:58, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > To be clear by "our banners" I meant Wikimedia banners - not elections > > banners. ;) > > > > -greg > > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Gregory Varnum < > [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > I appreciate that there are basically always concerns with our banners. > > > Generally, I hear from volunteers on nearly every banner we use. ;) > > > > > > That said, it would be helpful to have some more constructive feedback > to > > > pass along to the next committee. What exactly would you suggest be > > > changed? Passing along the note "and some people disliked the banners" > is > > > unlikely to produce much actual change. > > > > > > Anything specific we can pass along? Also, any examples of alternatives > > > can be saved and passed along as well. > > > > > > -greg (User:Varnent) > > > Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Szymon Grabarczuk < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> I must agree with that. I've received clearly negative feedback from > > >> several volunteers. > > >> > > >> On 22 April 2015 at 13:18, Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> > > >> > It's horribly ugly, I expected more. > > >> > > > >> > I don't want to de-value someone's work (a person or persons that I > > >> don't > > >> > know) but we had way better designs before. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Best > > >> > -- > > >> > Amir > > >> > _______________________________________________ > > >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > >> > [email protected] > > >> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > , > > >> > <mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> *Szymon Grabarczuk* > > >> > > >> Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU > > >> Head of Research & Development Group, Wikimedia Polska > > >> pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_Lócesilion > <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > > <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > > >> <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > > >> <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > >> [email protected] > > >> < > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/[email protected] > > > > > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > , > > >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > *Szymon Grabarczuk* > > Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU > Head of Research & Development Group, Wikimedia Polska > pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_Lócesilion > <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
