Wikimedia Engineering/WMF Tech Days 2013/Design at WMF

Design at the WMF

Leads

Jared Zimmerman + other presenters

Schedule

2:45 pm - 90 minutes - North side of 3rd floor

Audience

• Front-End Developers
• Product Managers
• Anyone else interested in design and pattern thinking

Outcomes

• Explain how Design will be functional cross-team across the WMF
• Consistent, appropriate cross device experiences
• Q & A

---Break---

• How Extension:BetaFeatures / Beta Features can help with community mindshare (Jared Zimmerman & Mark Holmquist)

• Reusable frameworks for controls, typography, and layout:
  • The new look of Agora (Jared Zimmerman)
  • State of the CSS (S Page)
  • Building CSS with LESS (Ori Livneh)
  • Guidance on Grid systems & demo (Pau Giner)
  • Flow prototype and why we need to think mobile first (Brandon Harris & May Galloway)
  • Revising the font stack (Vibha Bamba & Jon Robson)

Discussion

• Creating awareness about the work of the design group (agora controls, typography) (other than a PDF) so people can participate and give feedback

• Start conversation with a design intro, transitions to technical aspects
• Who uses and will use Agora controls
  • Teams ready for Agora controls: Flow, Onboarding, OAuth, Visual Editor, Account Creation/Login, Language Engineering.
• Discussion vs. presentation (e.g. LESS) ratio?