Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #15

The Design Team provides design for the WordPress project.

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.

Figma Access

You don’t need edit access to use the Figma libraries, you can copy components from there into your own drafts. If you’re a contributor with the ability to grant edit access, please be mindful, and downgrade to view access once the initial need for edit has waned.

Gutenberg 5.5 is released! The long-anticipated Group 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. is now available. In addition to a strong list of enhancements, there’s even a bit of a performance boost. This release included 48+ contributors, thanks, everyone!

This is a short post this week. For more information, read up on the release notes linked above, and visit the GitHubGitHub GitHub 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/ issues/PRs labeled Needs Design Feedback or Needs Design.

Focuses

AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)

Voice accessibility contrast checker is merged.
Video block subtitles.

Research

Prior to the release of WordPress 5.0, @jarahsames conducted a survey with WordPress users regarding the new GutenbergGutenberg The 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 ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ experience. Here are the results.

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

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The Design Team provides design for the WordPress project.

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