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.
We’re having the first meeting of the image editing group tomorrow: Friday at 18:00 UTC. Below is the agenda:
1. General Introductions
2. Discussion of project scope (and name) (also, talking about the feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. process)
3. Discussion of project stages
4. Review of work done so far (personas, user interviews, competitor analysis)
5. Assigning tasks
If anyone has anything else that they would like discuss, please leave a comment.
I will post the link to the Google Hangout here 15 mins before the chat.
I was meeting with @siobhan last week to work on creating initial personas for Image Editing in WordPress. We came up with 6 main personas with different skill levels, goals and frustrations (for details see link below):
We’ve put together a Google Doc for these personas and I’m sure we’ll refine it in the course of the next weeks, possibly add another persona or so: Google Doc Personas
We’re thinking of providing a form for others to fill out to collect more data and to learn more about user’s image editing workflows, pain points and expectations.
We’ve also put together a list of general user flows/tasks around Image Adding and Editing that will help us account for how people are using the image editing tools. Please share any additional flows/tasks you feel are missing in the comments below. (Google Doc Flows/Tasks)
Adding/Editing Images
Specific Editing Tasks
Adding/Editing Photo Galleries
We deliberately kept this exercise high level without creating any wireframes or mockups yet. I feel it’s important to understand the users and what they want to do first before we dive in.
Next steps are to document the current workflows and pain points. We also want to look at other image editing solutions and what we can learn from those.
We would love to hear your feedback!
We’re going to kick off weekly meetings for image editing next week. They’ll be at 18:00 UTC Friday, starting Friday 18th July. That’s:
It’s after the media component meeting.
We’re going to experiment with using Google Hangouts instead of IRC for the meeting. I’ll post the link to the chatroom here about 10 minutes beforehand. Google Hangouts allow for 10 maximum for a hangout. That should suffice for the time being. Other people can attend and ask questions if we get full.
We have a Gitter chat room set up for ongoing communication.
[Update: I got the time wrong for the media component meeting – we’ll have our meeting after theirs :)]
Image editing in WordPress isn’t fun. It’s possible, but it isn’t fun. Bringing image editing into the media modal was pretty awesome. Now people can edit images from the modal (yay!) but they also realise how frustrating that image editing experience is (boo 🙁 ).
WordPress is not an image editing platform, but we do offer some minimal image editing tools and, since they’re there, they should be intuitive instead of anger inducing.
Image editing is an area that’s ripe for improvement, so we are proposing an image editing feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. to see how we can improve things.
At the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Seattle contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., myself, @sonjanyc, @mor10 and @DH-Shredder started some discussions about how we can improve the image editing experience in WordPress. Below is what we discussed:
What we want to provide to users
Process
We discussed the process for the way forward with the project:
1. Creating personas and workflows
2. Conducting interviews with user types (photoblogger, food blogger, tutorial writer, multi-author blog editor, etc)
3. Looking at how other platforms provide image editing functionality
4. 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. mockups
5. Design
6. Coding
7. Testing
Tickets related to image editing
And here are some mockups that were done around 3.5 from @lessbloat
If anyone would like to be involved in this project, please let us know. We have a Skype group and we can start kicking off weekly meetings, either in IRC or Google Hangouts. It’s in the very early stages and we’re planning to take things slowly since we all have other commitments, but we can get things moving more quickly if with more involvement.
Here are some things you could help out with:
You can email me to be added to the Skype group or let us know in the comments
