Design/Participate

We welcome help in many ways. We want to make sure we foster an environment where community designers can contribute to the projects as well as developers. Wikimedia movement is work of many diverse members of our communities. Your participation in designing for Wikimedia Movement is key to building useful and usable products.

Ways to Participate

You can participate in many ways based on your interests, availability, and capacity. Understanding our design process may help you determine how you'd like to be involved.

• Our Process
• Our Projects / Products
• Design Style Guide

Our Process

General guide to how Wikimedia Product Designers work

Our process can be broken down into following broad areas

• Understand and discover
• Uncover and frame the problem statement
• Explore ideas and solutions
• Build and evaluate prototypes
• Develop solutions
• Document solutions and rationale
• Learn from how design is getting used

A guide on how Wikimedia Foundation designers typically work in collaboration with other members of a Product team (Product Managers, Engineers, QA, etc) can be viewed here.

By projects and products

Refer to this table for contacts on specific projects.

Design Style Guide

The Wikimedia Design Style Guide ensures consistency in how our products look and behave. Its guidelines enable interactions between our diverse communities and users. As of late 2023, it was moved under the Codex in recognition of these guidelines as forming the basis of the Codex, the Wikimedia Design System managed by the Design System Team.

Find out how you can participate to Codex via the DST Working with us page.