ARipstra (WMF)

Abigail Ripstra

Lead Design Researcher, Wikimedia Foundation

About me

I am a graduate of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and lived in Chicago for many years. I've been in San Francisco since 2006. Prior to Wikimedia Foundation I worked as a design researcher at Cisco Systems and Salesforce collaboratively defining, testing, and iterating software functionality for communication and collaboration. I worked at Steelcase to understand the context, goals and needs of remote, distributed team mates. I have also worked at a few design consultancies on various projects. For the past 11 years, I have been observing, researching and defining products for people to collaborate and communicate in various cultural, socio political, economic, and geographic contexts.

My work

As Lead Design Researcher, I am working with many teams across the Wikimedia Foundation to help build and extend our ability to do impactful qualitative research as part of developing solutions.

Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try 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: aripstrawikimedia.org