Happy Friday once again! This is the last Friday of the 1st quarter of the year. Let’s take a deep breath and dig into what went on this last week.

Navigation block

Work is progressing on the Navigation Menu block. A group of designers conducted seven usability tests last week, and have spent this week going through notes and pulling out insights. Keep an eye on this p2 for an update next week on next steps.

Widget-block interfaces

wp-admin
There’s a new PR that explores the widget-blocks in a wp-admin page. It’s quite basic right now, but still a wonderful work in progress.

Customizer
Some simple explorations are being done to include blocks in the Customizer. They are rough thoughts that incorporate Customizer’s existing patterns with a bit of Gutenberg.

Tightening up

• The block list appender is getting cleaned up. And being added as a placeholder in some areas.
• Adding character counts to the Table of Contents to help languages like Mandarin and others that use characters as individual words.
• Adding larger handles to resize elements.
• Easier resizing of columns in Media+Text block.
• Image fill option in the Media+Text block.
• Making the swap image flow clearer.

Accessibility

• The Heading hierarchy is being worked on now in this PR now.
• Looks like some of the issues with linked gallery images might be addressed in another patch.
• The video block subtitles needs a final design before moving to a PR.
• The text selection with keyboard has been addressed in this PR.

Thanks for reading, staying informed, and contributing anywhere you can!

#design, #gutenberg-weekly, #phase-2