Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

2015-11-17 Thread Pine W
FWIW, Foundation staff members have told me more than once that they don't entirely understand WMF's org chart. My understanding is that the org chart is missing important pieces like consultants. Also, some users who are not native speakers of English have commented that the diversity of titles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

2015-11-17 Thread Richard Ames
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Pine W wrote: > FWIW, Foundation staff members have told me more than once that they don't > entirely understand WMF's org chart. > > My understanding is that the org chart is missing important pieces like > consultants. And volunteers!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

2015-11-11 Thread Gnangarra
the more you mess around with name changes the harder it becomes for the community to follow who is doing what and why. Thats just for those of us who are english speakers I would hate be someone who doesnt speak english trying to follow the changes On 11 November 2015 at 16:53, Quim Gil

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

2015-11-11 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, this is a very interesting conversation, and I hope the most informative bits are reflected in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design By the way, we are discussing the use of the term "Design" in the WMF product development process, as a stage involving not only visual/UX design but also

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

2015-11-10 Thread Isarra Yos
According to the Staff and Contractors page, May is a 'Visual Experience Designer', which sounds like exactly what you're describing when it comes to the overlap between interaction and visual design. Is it just that you lack the visual design resources currently (one visual designer who isn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

2015-11-10 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Isarra Yos wrote: > On 10/11/15 22:25, Isarra Yos wrote: > > Hi, thank you for your response. This does clarify a lot. > > Why do you make the distinction that UX designers also do visual when you > stated already that you also have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

2015-11-10 Thread Isarra Yos
Er, forgot to cc the main list, since I did cross-post in the first place. Sorry about that! On 10/11/15 22:25, Isarra Yos wrote: Hi, thank you for your response. This does clarify a lot. Why do you make the distinction that UX designers also do visual when you stated already that you also