Nomination: populate Design quality review group #16

mbernst · 2017-12-14T17:57:39Z

Right now the Design quality review group is empty. We need it to have people, as we are facing several designs coming down the pike.

My proposal

To match prior practice, I propose that we initialize the group to the set of people with formal design training who DRI’ed design efforts in the past. Formally, this means that I nominate @mbernst, @karolina, @christopher.diemert, and @varis. If I am missing somebody, please let me know! (By the way @markwhiting, my reading on the gov docs is that someone can self-nominate for a position: "To gain these privileges, the person must be nominated by a member of the Collective". Do we want to allow self nomination, like I'm doing here?)

Nomination paragraphs:

@mbernst has led multiple design efforts and design reviews on the site over the past few years. This includes multiple design review passes with @dmorina on the task feed, authoring page, results review, and homepage.

@karolina crafted the overall design language of the site, including final color scheme, and several graphics for the papers and the site.

@christopher.diemert was very active early on designing elements such as (IIRC) the logo, task feed, early color schemes, and aspects of the homepage.

@varis led a redesign of the authoring environment and review page.

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markwhiting · 2017-12-14T19:22:53Z

I think self nomination is not a problem. The decision making method is not compromised by that.

neilthemathguy · 2017-12-18T01:42:22Z

Thanks @mbernst.

Could you clarify what are the things fit under the design umbrella--- are you referring to information design, visual design, mockup creation, mockup design, frontend coding, logo creation, graphic design, UI and workflow design, color schema selection?

I nominate @karolina @mbernst @varis. In addition to these names, I would also like to nominate following people who have contributed till date in various phases of design---

Nominations

Alipta (Poster for CSCW, Logo, Figures, Task Review Mockup)
Durim (Material UI design, User profile page, Front end coding)
Paritosh (Contributors page design, Design credentials)
Shirish (Material UI design, Task Authoring Interface, Homepage and Demo pages along with Varis, Animated video for UIST paper, Front end coding)
Neil (Initial design of the platform using Bootstrap, DRI for several design milestones, Front end coding, Conference posters and paper figures with Karolina, Alipta, HCI training at CMU and MIT, etc )

shirishgoyal · 2017-12-18T01:51:25Z

Just to update @varis not just worked on redesign of the authoring environment and review page, but he pretty much designed all pages which exist right now on the platform including homepage, demo pages, requester and worker interfaces.

mbernst · 2017-12-18T19:53:09Z

Could you clarify what are the things fit under the design umbrella--- are you referring to information design, visual design, mockup creation, mockup design, frontend coding, logo creation, graphic design, UI and workflow design, color schema selection?

Good question @neilthemathguy. I do not think that "frontend coding" should be reviewed by the design QR, as the group is not designed to be coding experts. However, the design QR group should be reviewing frontend code insofar as it produces changes to the design.

I would suggest that the group's jurisdiction include changes that involve changes to the visual design, information design, or interaction design of the platform. This specifically would include UIs, mockups, the design language (e.g., colors, fonts, logo, grid), layout. I'm open to others.

dmorina · 2017-12-19T20:46:25Z

@mbernst @neilthemathguy if you want less disagreement/friction between "teams" then you probably want to select real graphic designers rather than designer wannabe's or people who know some bits of design (like most of the list of Neil and partially Michael's) and this applies to every group/team

My suggestion would be to include people either who hold/are pursuing a graphic design degree [insert applicable degree here] or have professional experience which qualifies them for this.

mbernst · 2017-12-21T00:02:18Z

Nominations in this proposal are now entering a voting phase. Votes will close as of the group meeting on December 27th. Please see votes for each nominated individual below.

mbernst · 2017-12-21T00:03:12Z

Vote: @mbernst (@michael Bernstein)

This vote is for @mbernst to be added to the design QR team.