Want to get involved? See the handbook and optionally drop into #design to chat. Most active design work happens in the block editor project, consider dropping into Needs design or Needs design feedback.
There’s a WordPress Component Library in Figma. Duplicate to edit, direct access is reserved for the design team.
In reviewing the first 6 user tests, one thing really stands out to me (it’s a glaring problem in each of the tests). Can you guess what it is?
It might not be what you’d expect…
It’s actually the effort required to simply locate whatever section you’re trying to find (to get stuff done) – ask a new user to do ANYTHING, and they have to hunt and peck around the admin 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. for 2 minutes before they can even get started (and they have to do this for every single task!). Over 60% of the users time was spent just trying to find the area they needed to get to. That sucks!
In my mind, this is a massive problem. I’d say hands down, it’s our biggest usability stumbling 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. at the moment, and I’d like to see if we can figure out a way to fix it…
