Estela Rueda 5:37 pm on December 9, 2020  

Design team taking an end-of-the-year break

The design team will be taking a break during the holidays from 17 December 2020 to 12 January 2021.

During this time there will be no meetings or triages and the activity in the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel may be minimal.

If you have questions or need access to Figma, please feel free to post it and expect a slower response than usual.

We hope that everyone else takes a break and enjoy their time. Once we resume our regular activities be ready to come back with the spirit of the new year energized and ready to contribute to this great community.

Happy holidays from the design team. And see you on 15 January for Triage.

Estela Rueda 4:17 am on December 17, 2020
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Design team meeting notes Dec. 16, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Housekeeping

We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.

Announcements

This is the last design team meeting for 2020. We will be back on 15 January with a design triage.

Don’t forget to tune into Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word on the 17th of December (tomorrow).

Learn WordPress is live now. Whether you are new to WordPress or a seasoned developer/designer, there is always something to learn.

Updates

@estelaris (that’s me) was invited to WC Sevilla on 26-29 December to lead the Documentation table and work with both the documentation and polyglots teams to understand what features are needed for better translations in HelpHub.

Discussion

Last month we made changes to our triage sessions and agreed to have only one session and do a review of labels and keywords to move the tickets. The length of the triage session was also shortened. The idea was to have fewer meetings and work more efficiently.

After a few weeks, we have noticed that contributors expect working sessions and we have had to add unscheduled sessions to review tickets. Also, the number of tickets and PRs that are not being worked on has increased, both in Track and GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

Our idea is to keep to only one session, increase it as need it, between 30-45 minutes and give feedback/assign design work.

One of the questions focus on the reason why triage is not working, is it due to the length of time, or time when triage is run and content?. There were several points made and expect a post about how to run triage in the next few days.

#meeting-notes

#design

Estela Rueda 1:54 pm on December 16, 2020  

Design team meeting agenda for 16 December 2020

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday in the #design channel of the WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Here are the suggested topics:

  • Housekeeping
    • Call for note-takers and triage facilitators
  • Announcements
    • Today is the last team meeting of the year. We will be back on 15 January 2021 with a triage session
  • Updates
  • Discussion
    • Bringing back a more productive triage session (45 to 60 mins)
  • Open floor

If there is anything you would like to see added to the agenda, please leave a comment also.

#meeting-agenda

Tim Hengeveld 6:41 pm on December 9, 2020
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Design team meeting notes Dec. 9, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Housekeeping

We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.

Announcements

WordPress 5.6 is available! A huge shout out goes to the hard working 605 volunteers who made this major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. possible.

The design team will be taking a break during the holidays from 17 December 2020 to 12 January 2021. Normal working routine will resume after that. Enjoy the holiday break!

Don’t forget to tune into Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word on the 17th of December. Deadline to submit questions is this friday! To submit your question, upload it as an unlisted video (YouTube works great for this) and send a link to [email protected].

Updates

@estelaris recounted her great experience being part of the WordPress 5.6 release team, and encouraged anyone else who might be interested in working on a release to do it, and she would be glad to offer guidance.

@joen made a post on the blog sharing with us the status of the new iteration of the Gutenberg UI, codename ‘G2’. Exciting things are happening there. Please feel free to read the full ticket and participate directly on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

Be sure to also read what’s next in Gutenberg this month.

Discussion

We discussed the idea of adding an autoresponder message for new contributors to the #design channel on the WordPress Slack. It was found to be a good idea, and a draft message will be written up for the new year.

#meeting-notes

Tim Hengeveld 12:19 pm on December 8, 2020
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Design team meeting agenda for 9 December 2020

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday in the #design channel of the WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Here are the suggested topics:

  • Housekeeping
    • Call for note-takers and triage facilitators
  • Announcements
    • Today is the release of WordsPress 5.6
  • Updates
  • Discussion
  • Open floor

If there is anything you would like to see added to the agenda, please leave a comment also.

#meeting-agenda

Estela Rueda 5:59 pm on December 7, 2020  

New design team rep as of December 2020

Last week the design team approved @chaion07 as the new team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.. We want to welcome him into his new role.

Ahmed is not new to the design team, he has been part of the note takers team for over a year and he is always willing to help out.

As we begin the new month, join us on Wednesday for his first meeting as a team rep.

Joen A. 7:31 am on December 3, 2020  

Sidebar Controls & Component System

“What is G2?” It was a codename for the block toolbar redesign that happened as part of WordPress 5.5, and it’s also been the codename for a followup effort to evolve the design language of block controls. This post is meant to give visibility to the effort since the question came up yesterday.

The initial effort is focused on bringing systematization to blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. controls in the editor sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.. Here’s a specific example of what the effort is trying to solve for:

Typography tools, concretely, have been expanding with different blocks requiring a slightly different subset (with or without line height, with or without font weight, etc). These groups of controls need flexibility and clarity. Both themes and blocks need to be able to specify which elements are configurable by the user and the interface needs to be able to accommodate different configurations in a pleasing and consistent manner.

That means there are two complementary goals with this effort: an improved design system and more functional control typologies that neatly organize the complexity of information and actions. We can start with some of the basic and most recurrent panels that can provide a baseline for others.

Please feel free to read the full ticket and participate directly on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

Estela Rueda 9:55 am on December 1, 2020
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Design meeting team notes December 2, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Housekeeping

We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.

The team is also looking forward to a holiday break, a post about this will follow the notes.

Announcements

Release 5.6 is scheduled for 8 December, this is the first all-female team release and both @mrahmadawaisand @estelaris are part of the release team.

The #core team posted a wish list for release 5.7

The marketing team wants your input for The Month of WordPress, they meet on Wednesdays at 2.00 pm UTC in the #marketing Slack channel.

Updates

@ibdz has recently reincorporated to the work on the visual regression report for color schemes with the #core-css team.

@hedgefield continues working on mockups for the notification center project and it should be ready to being prototyping soon. There are still several issues going in the WP notify repo, if anyone wants to follow up.

Main topic

The call for design team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. closed on 30 November and we only had @chaion07 nomination. Since he had several +1 from the team, we decided to name him next design team rep and will be replacing @karmatosed. There is an announcement to follow.

Open floor

@hedgefield asked about the progress on G2. For those unfamiliar with it, G2 is the next iteration of the post editor UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing.. At the moment, @joen and @itsjonq are working on the project. Here is a calendar of the current status and there will also be a summary of the work being done. In the meantime, you can read more about it in @itsjonq‘s blog.

@ibdzalso mentioned that the WP Notify project is inviting designers to challenge the direction now.

#meeting-notes

#5-6-release, #color-schemes, #g2, #team-rep, #wp-notify

Estela Rueda 8:00 am on December 1, 2020  

Design team meeting agenda for 2 December 2020

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday in the #design channel of the WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Here are the suggested topics:

  • Housekeeping
    • Call for note-takers and triage facilitators
    • holiday schedule
  • Announcements
    • Release 5.6 is scheduled for 8 December, you can review the field guide
    • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team posted a wish list for release 5.7
    • The marketing team is working on The Month of WordPress for December, to add something attend a marking meeting on Wednesdays at 2.00 pm UTC in the #marketing Slack channel.
  • Updates
  • Main topic
    • New team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.
  • Open floor

If there is anything you would like to see added to the agenda, please leave a comment also.

#meeting-agenda

Estela Rueda 10:35 pm on November 27, 2020  

Design team Show & Tell for 25 November 2020

The design team is still working on blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. development as well as experimenting into other platforms for live design sessions, some of the highlights:

@itsjonq is doing live demos on G2 components on Twitch. He will be announcing any sessions in the Slack #design channel.

@mapk showed us improvements on the query block and we actually discussed solutions like combining steps in one screen or splitting the action into two steps/two screens.

@karmatosed mentioned an issue brought up in the Slack #design channel regarding the libraries that exist in Figma. @karmatosed archived the old Figma libraries and updated the design handbook: Figma tools as well as the WordPress components pages.

@itsjonq consulted the team about his work on project maps and planning for G2 components.

@estelaris reminded the team about adding their nominations on the open call for a new team rep. Nominations will close on November 30 and voting will take place on December 2 during the weekly meeting.

design team members participating in the show and tell for November 2020

#meeting-notes