How we hire UX designers at Wikimedia

This article attempts to answer some of the questions that people who want to apply for a UX design job at Wikimedia may have.

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Embarking on a design refresh of Wikipedia Talk pages — in three acts

In search of the perfect search for Wikipedia

The Android app team improved one of their core features—searching for articles on Wikipedia. Along the way of making discovery more intelligent, personalized and efficient, we experienced a surprise.

Translation on Wikipedia — Inclusion begins with discovery and ideation

Using remote international research to ensure diverse user groups are represented at the earliest stages of product development

Design Strategy Website Launch

Making design research more accessible to our wiki project contributors and to the global design community

Transparency by Design

How making page issues more visible on Wikipedia mobile helps foster trust and participation

Organizing a remote offsite for a global team

Whilst this design team has always been a fully remote team, they annually get together in person for a few days somewhere in the world for a team offsite, but this year, all travel was cancelled!

Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years. Here’s why.

The desktop design is particularly important to new users who have come to the internet for the first time over the last decade.

Democratizing Modern UI Design From The Bottom Up

Designing the way millions of users access knowledge requires lots of considerations. The Wikimedia Style guide is an effort to compile good practices to facilitate this task for designers and developers