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Aishwarya vardhana
Senior UX Designer for Trust and Safety at The Wikimedia Foundation
I lead design for Trust and Safety at Wikipedia. I am currently designing Wikipedia's first harassment reporting system. We build tools that make Wikipedia a safer and more accessible place for its diverse volunteer community. My portfolio includes an AI-enabled dashboard, editing tools, tools for developers and multimedia experiences. I’m interested in systems thinking, misinformation, surveillance, and racial and gender equity. I write a newsletter on design, make art, mentor, and support low income rural youth in India.
Work experience
2021-current
Senior UX Designer at The Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco, CA
2020-2021
Design Researcher at Joe Biden for President
Portland, OR
2017-2020
Product Designer at Knowhere
San Francisco, CA
2016-2017
Co-founder at Verbatm
Palo Alto, CA
Projects
2022-current
Our long term goal is to build a system for users to safely and privately report harassment and abuse. Our short term goal is to build an MVP for a pilot wiki (i.e small wiki community) where a user can report a message, a comment, an account, or an edit summary with a certain level of anonymity (the level of anonymity is still being defined in collaboration with the community). The reporting UX should be intuitive, painless for the target of harassment, create a base level of trust between the user and the reporting system, and produce a harassment report with enough information to be helpful to the responder. Here is a Loom video of an early interactive prototype.
2021-2022
Wikifunctions
How do we build multilingual Wikipedia, where everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge, in any language? Wikifunctions is a collaborative platform for devs and non-devs to write code. It is a stepping stone towards Abstract Wikipedia, a language-independent database of all of Wikipedia's knowledge.