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Quick synthesis of what we know from past research on the mobile editing experience
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(This is being filled out by Debra, based on my conversation with Sonja)

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The request from Sonja is to have a design researcher do a quick synthesis of what we know from past research around the mobile editing experience -- behaviors, needs, pain points, desires, etc - to inform a new initiative they are starting around improving the mobile web editing experience. And, gathering input from the working group on potential open questions for new research (to be prioritized for Q1 or later).

Details here (private link): https://docs.google.com/document/d/18vQEPOiQAQDWKtL5G0vffwZFz_f6N7A7iwwBDohkZH0/edit?tab=t.0

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Synthesis - format and where to put it TBD. My understanding is that this can be a quick and lightweight synthesis, and does not need to be a polished deck.

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Small - a design researcher can synthesize past research in likely 2-3 days' max. They will need to first ensure they have gathered all the relevant past research reports, including any from Research/Applied Science/external. I (Debra) would like them to synthesize together with the similar synthesis that Kadeem is doing of the quant data from analytics, on mobile editing, so that it is one synthesis woven together, vs. disjointed by qual and quant - so that part will take a bit of the time.

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Due Date
May 30 2025, 5:00 AM

Event Timeline

@SonjaPerry I am determining right now who from Design Research can create this synthesis. Could you just confirm for me when is the latest you would want to have it completed?

Thank you @DKumar-WMF! If we could have this completed at the latest by the end of Q4 that would be great. And confirming your assumption above that we don't need a polished deck but instead it can be light-weight. Ideally, I love to get research's assessment of what we know from previous research, including an interpretation that connects the dots between different studies we've done in the past and a recommendation for areas to focus on based on those findings. An added outcome might be a recommendation for future research to close gaps in data we may perceive. Thanks for helping out with this, and please let me know if you need anything else!

Assigning to Claudia. She is going to finish working on this by 16th of May.

DKumar-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.May 5 2025, 9:02 PM
DKumar-WMF set Due Date to May 30 2025, 5:00 AM.
DKumar-WMF moved this task from FY2024-25-Research-April-June to Staged on the Research board.

Synthesis was completed and sent to @DKumar-WMF and Kadeem Khan for review on 16 May. Debra, please review for close?

Thanks Claudia - let's consider closed once Kadeem has woven in the key insights from quantitative research into this same doc. Please ping him if he hasn't gotten to that by later this week as we had discussed.

We finished this back at end of May but I had forgotten to close out this ticket.