The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.
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Welcome! This all-volunteer team needs designers of various kinds. See our handbook and drop into #design once signed up for volunteer opportunities.
Our vision is to be the go-to resource for design for other teams across the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.
We meet and have ongoing discussions in Slack#design
Team: Wednesday 18:00 UTC
Triage: CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./metaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. and GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/: Tuesday 16:00 UTC
This week’s meeting is a show and tell so come and join us in the zoom, the link will be shared in the design channel. If you’ve got anything you’d like to talk about just comment here or bring along the topic to the meeting.
@richtabor provided a range of GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ issues we dove into discussing various things around the editor.
The first of these was closing block styles proposed by @michael-arestad (who joined in the discussion). This improves the styles panel; discussion led to more thoughts around the side panel updates that are incoming.
During this discussion, some great links were shared by @melchoyce, @shaunandrews, @joen and many others. Here are a few of those:
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.
Contributions to the Design Team are always welcomed. Please pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@estelaris or @chaion07 and they will guide you through.
This week’s meeting is a show and tell so come and join us in the zoom, the link will be shared in the design channel. If you’ve got anything you’d like to talk about just comment here or bring along the topic to the meeting.
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.
Contributions to the Design Team are always welcomed. Please pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@estelaris or @chaion07 and they will guide you through.
Requesting all to read and leave your valuable feedback on these posts. Your comments will help the design team to improve WordPress.
Open Floor:
@magdy thinks GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ panels can be improved something similar to Quillforms is doing. @karmatosed advised to open an enhancement issue on https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/ and Joen agrees that the tricky part is to find the right balance.
Now that you’ve helped us populate the directory with so many patterns, @melchoyce, @beafialho, and I are going to shift focus to further refining and tidying up the collection for launch. Our goal for this pre-release set of patterns is to provide users with a diverse, high-quality set of designs that share a common thread.
This does not mean that submissions are closed — just that we’re at a point where we can begin viewing submissions through the lens of curating and filling out the collection as a whole. With that in mind, I’ve pulled together a handful of suggestions to help folks who are submitting patterns between now and launch:
Draw inspiration from history, art, and nature. Like the patterns that are currently bundled with Gutenberg, this set is designed to share the common thread of history, specifically through the lens of art and the natural world. Using these reference points allows us to cover a wide range of topics and styles, while still having a throughline that connects them all. When submitting a pattern for this pre-release collection, please consider having your imagery and text be related to those topics. That will help this feel like a cohesive set.
Challenge yourself to create something new. Before you get started, take time to browse through the directory and ensure that your pattern does not duplicate existing work. For example, the directory includes many Media & Text patterns already, so there probably isn’t room for many more Media & Text patterns at this point.
Write text creatively. For this initial collection, we’ve been avoiding “Lorem ipsum” text in order to help make the patterns feel more real. Try using text as a way to hook into that common thread of history, nature, and art mentioned above. If you have links in your text, feel free to link to WP.org or WordPress.org. You can use [email protected] as an email address if you need one.
Be sure to use CC0 or Public Domain images. Keep the common thread in mind when choosing images. If you need inspiration, previous patterns have had great luck pulling from Rawpixel’s curated public domain collection of images. At this time, let’s avoid modern iconography as we wait for a more flexible icon solution in GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/.
Aim for accessible color palettes. If your pattern uses colors, be sure that text contrast adheres to WCAG 2.0 guidelines. This will ensure that more people can read your pattern!
Consider a range of screen sizes. Be sure to test your pattern on mobile, tablet, and desktop views. Some patterns using large text tend to break awkwardly on smaller screens. Be sure to test that out, and adjust accordingly.
Ensure your pattern works well in many themes. Be sure to keep your blockBlockBlock 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. settings as specific as possible: Outside of default colors like black and white, please specify hex values instead of relying on theme presets. Make sure your pattern isn’t using any theme-specific block styles, and be sure to set line-height for text when appropriate.
We’ll continue evolving these suggestions and guidelines over time as the directory continues to grow.
As we move into a more tightly curatorial part of this effort, I’d like to reemphasize that the current process is just for the early, pre-release phase of pattern submission. For example, if you have a pattern that is similar to one that is already in the pre-release collection, the Design team may hold off on including it for now. But you’ll be free to resubmit it directly yourself once the directory is launched.
Again, thank you all for your submissions! It’s exciting to see the directory come to life.
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.
Contributions to the Design Team is always welcomed. Please pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@estelaris or @chaion07 and they will guide you through.
Announcements
WordPress has turned 18 Last week we celebrated the 18th anniversary of WordPress’ launch, a day that we can fondly refer to as WordPress’ birthday.
Since our last birthday we developed our 40th release and now also support over 40% of the web. So it seems fitting that this year’s celebration should be a list of 40 milestones that have helped us get there.
Bug Scrub Schedule for 5.8 As we are at feature freeze for 5.8 release the next milestone is the BetaBetaA pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 which is set for June 8. I along with @lukecarbis are leading scheduled bug-scrubs that usually happen twice a week. For the most part, they’re scheduled for Tuesdays and/or Wednesdays at 4:00 UTC for APAC time zones and 20:00 UTC for US /EU regions, though there are some adjustments to accommodate religious and national holidays. The next one is on June 8, Tuesday at 2000 UTC. Come join if you can as we look to address a few bugs and defects for 5.8 🎉
Proposal to tweak existing icons and add new ones There is a proposal by @keoshi on the existing icons. The discussion goes back a couple of weeks over Slack that has been documented in the Meeting Notes. We would love to hear your thoughts, concerns, and suggestions on the above. If there are no major disagreements or changes to be done, the next step would be create a PR to submit all of these to the repo.
WordCamp Europe 2021 As we are just days away from WCEU 2021 which is set to take place between 7 and 9 June, we wanted to remind everyone to get their tickets before it runs out. Noting that 2 #design team members talking this year:
@javierarce will present Using Figma in the Design Team Workshop on Monday, June 7 at 18.00 CEST
@estelaris will be part of a panel discussion on How contributors make WordPress – Wednesday, June 9 at 16:00 CEST
CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blog highlights
@estelaris suggested that we add a link to the handbook that references the fact that Figma now provides a link to give view access to the WP library. This way we can remove the note about emailing invites. @karmatosed, @kellychoffman, and @melchoyce agreed. Estela will do the update.
This Meeting is held in the #design channel in the Making WordPress Slack Workspace.Leave a comment if you would like something reviewed, discussed, help or something added to the agenda.
A week ago I presented a quick proposal to folks on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. to add a few new icons and tweak some of the existing ones. The initial proposal was captured in last week’s meeting notes, but I’ve been working on said icons since and wanted to cristalize the final group of icons on this post.
The suggestion is to make a slight tweak to icons that have human representations, replacing the solid dot (generally reserved for interface elements) for a more open, outlined shape. I personally find this change humanizes the icons a lot, and makes them much more consistent with themselves and rest of the library.
Changes:
The solid dot for the heads turns into an outlined shape.
Icons affected: people and block-post-author.
Adding new icons
The goal with these is to extend the icon library, and do so respecting the foundational philosophy and icon architecture. The more comprehensive the coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. icon library is, the more useful it becomes to blockBlockBlock 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./theme/pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party authors. And the more it becomes a common good, the more cohesive the WordPress experience will be, and more people are willing to contribute back to it.
Additions:
bug/no-bug – useful in technical contexts such as issues, bug reports, fixes, changelogs, etc.
security – using the shield metaphor to convey protection against existing threats, applies to site health and plugins in general.
add-card – a generic element to add new elements beyond just the block editor.
key – to be paired with the lock icons, or for plugins that support licenses.
Worth repeating that the idea is to add icons that can be used by anyone, in diverse and distinct contexts, and serve multiple purposes.
Feedback
Would love to hear your thoughts, concerns, and suggestions on the above. If there are no major disagreements or changes to be done, the next step would be create a PR to submit all of these to the repo.
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