The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.
Want to get involved?
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.
The appearance of new faces in the 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 āpull requestā where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo is so encouraging. Conversations are productive, design direction is collaborative, and the excitement is promising. If youād like to learn more about contributing to 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 āblocksā to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/, @karmatosedwrote up a great handbook page this week.
Just a reminder, today is the last call for merging PRs that will make it into WP 5.2.
Navigation 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.
People are being signed up for usability testing. There are already a few interviews scheduled for next week. The testing will be moderated and conducted with a prototype of the Navigation block. If youāre interested in helping, join the #research channel in slackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.!
Tightening up
A really cool update to the block outlines has been merged. The blue hover state is replaced with a strong grey left border. The focused state retains that strong left border and outlines the entire block.
With all the research efforts gaining momentum, a recent call for researchers went out from @tinkerbelly. If youād like to help out, notify the researchers in the #research slack channel to get involved.
Wow, the comments in the post are lively! Itās great to see so many perspectives communicating. The feedback is being synthesized and thought through thoroughly. <- Say that three times fast.
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