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Volker E.

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Volker E.
Lead User Experience Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
Find the standards, question the standards, improve the standards. Follow the standards!

About me

I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in May 2015. Information architecture, information design, in short bringing information in most pleasingly way to the user are the things I'm interested in. Personal information: I've started as (German) Wikipedia contributer while my studies of philosophy in 2004.

My work

I'm working on the Reading Experience team, having been strongly involved with bringing great user-experience and consistency to the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. One of the drivers behind our design system Codex, it's predecessor OOUI, dark mode and Vector 2022. Always happy to discuss challenges you're running into!

Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

  • Email: volker@wikimedia.org
  • IRC: Volker_E
  • Twitter: @Volker_E