The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.
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Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
Font Management
Moving fast now is a fonts library PR, which we are collaborating on while continuously refining the mockups shown here.
Palette icon
In effort to avoid confusion between the Global Styles iconography, and the inspector Style tab, this palette icon is an explored alternative. Let us know your thoughts.
Toolbar icons
Before/After
With recent additions to the top toolbar (view post and document title), there’s an opportunity to simplify and revisit the visuals for consistency and compactness. Issue.
WP.org account security
WP.org account security features are getting ongoing refinement, with these new mockups detailing checklists and flows for adding security keys.
Content/Template editing improvements
First passs of the improved flow for clarifying when you’re editing content vs. template has been landed, and will appear in v16 of the plugin, thanks to Saxon and Robert.
Create new page
In this PR by Saxon, a unified “new page” modal is introduced in the site editor. This modal can eventually be invoked from anywhere, including the navigation items or in the link UIUIUI 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., creating a consistent initial building experience.
Improved template table view
A PR to improve the table view for templates and other manage views.
Page details
With the Pages section landed in the site editor, this PR improves the detail views for individual pages.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
A new release has begun, and this time @richtabor and I are collaborating on the design leading. In order to kick things off, we are holding an open zoom session May 26, 2023 at 14:30 UTC. The Zoom link will be shared in #design.
After the session, a recording will be posted here, along with notes and updates.
Agenda
Discuss what is going to happen going forward.
Begin to prepare a spreadsheet of all issues across GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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/ and tracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. that need doing.
Prepare a list of things that will need issues that haven’t got any.
Have some space for questions or look to answer them async.
The session will take 30 minutes to ensure everyone can easily watch or drop in. It will be a working session with a focus on getting all the issues into a log.
Questions about design in releases?
Do you have any questions you want answered? Whilst we might not get time in this meeting, the goal of this release is to document and setup future leads for being able to access information easily. Is there something you’ve always needed to know about leading design in a release? Curious how it happens and can’t find specific information?
Now is the time to ask the questions you can’t find the answers to and get those responses documented so you and future contributors can be empowered to lead awesome releases going forward. So, you can do the following:
Once we have those questions, we will both try and answer them and also add to our list of things to document.
Designers joining coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and editor triages
As one change to start off this kickoff, design triages are going to be part of the core and editor triages. This means that attending those times is something if you are curious about triage or getting involved is a good idea. There will be more on this and other ways to get involved as the release pace gathers. To discover the triage meetings you can find them in the meeting calendar link here.
WordCamp Sylhet 2023 took place on 20 May 2023 at the AuthLab office in Sylhet, Bangladesh. A whole day dedicated to the contributors with the successful completion of the first ever Contributor Day in Sylhet had a total of 11 Teams. Thanks to @chaion07 for Leading the Design Table. Here is the list of contributors who joined the Design Table:
We would like to thank the Sylhet WordPress Community for hosting the first ever WordCampWordCampWordCamps 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. in Sylhet. A big shout out the Lead Organizer @techjewel & the Contributor DayContributor DayContributor 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/. Coordinator @hasanuzzamanshamim for the hard work and dedication.
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
Cleaner results layout
After updating most UIUIUI 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. components with the new button styles, we made use of the button revisit to polish the content media links and headerHeaderThe header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. layout of All content results. Design ticket.
Notification banners
As part of the analytics project, we are updating the notification banners for the new privacy settings and other possible performance breaks we need to inform users about.
Detail panels
Continued work to nail down the contents of the details panel in the site editor for various contexts.
Save modal
An updated design for the Site Editor save modal.
Save dock behaviour
We’ve updated the behaviour of the save hub in the site editor so that it only prompts to review changes when there are changes outside the current context. PR.
Patterns
Introduces a way to create and manage patterns via a consolidated “Library” space. This work is leading up to the idea of synced patterns. Issue.
View site link + new external link icon
A design for an unobtrusive “View site” link in the site editor. Also updates the `external` icon making it more harmonious with the rest of the set.
Document Title
As part of designing the new title bar, we’ve created designs for all cases of the toolbar, across post editor, site editor, top toolbar, and mobile combinations.
Navigation in Site View
A navigation section was included in the site editor late in the 6.2 phase, but was pulled at the last minute due to some intricacies of its behavior. We are revisiting and simplifying these behaviors, with a primary focus on surfacing every menu you have saved, and letting you do basic management in the site view, still directing you to the edit view for intricate operations.
Notification bell
A coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. project, WP Notify, is making progress, and we’re seeking out how we can collaborate with them. For now, we’ve contributed a bell icon.
Condensed margin/padding controls
Before/After
Thanks to work by Aaron, more condensed unlinked padding and margin controls are close to landing.
When building thems in the site editor, it can be unclear from where a particular style originates (theme, user, global unspecific, global specific, local, etc). These concepts explore how to visualize that in an unintrusive way, and could use your feedback.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
RevisionsRevisionsThe WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.
Featured ImageFeatured imageA featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. improvements
A new language icon for polyglots to use, or to go with the lang attribute control.
Detail panels
In the site view of the site editor, each sidebarSidebarA 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. section you navigate to we’ve referred to as “detail panels” or “drilldown details”. They are a good opportunity to surface high level options, without needing to dive into the edit view.
You can create pages from a variety of locations, such as URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org dialogs, navigation items, the command center, or the site editor. An important part of a site building flow is also to create a slew of pages initially as you are building out your site, then edit them later. These mockups imagine a unified modal for this.
Pattern modal updates
Before/after
When creating things like Query Loops, Templates, and Headers, there are prompts in the site editor that ask the user to choose a pattern. Previously these prompts opened small, cramped modals that forced the user to scroll a lot to see all the options. They now open comfier ‘full screen’ modals that are capable of showing many patterns at once.
Call for testing: content/template split in the site editor
Mockup showing how an “Add new page” detail panel could look like as invoked from the site editor.
On-canvas radius manipulation
A quick mockup to demonstrate how we might enable users to change the corner radius of a 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. without having to open the Inspector.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
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