Design meeting notes for July 24, 2019

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesday’s. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Updates

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/

 Gutenberg 6.2 release is being pushed back a week.

@mapk requested testing on the following PRs:

Mark also added that there’s been a lot of improvements to the Table block.

@melchoyce asked for more feedback on the Block Directory.

Component Audits

@drw158 shared that the component audits he’s been doing are all done. 🎉 He’s been auditing each ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. 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. component that Gutenberg provides while looking for opportunities to improve naming, structure, composition, and visually-related props. Here’s more background on why we’re doing them and as always, feedback and discussion are most welcome.

Discussion

Design team TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board

@karmatosed has been doing some triage and commented on a few cards on our Trello board. (If you can’t see the board, comment on this thread in Slack to be added).

WordPress style guide in handbook

@karmatosed has been going through and seeing what can be added, removed and/or adjusted on the handbook style guide. She has come up with a list of suggestions and documented them in this spreadsheet. Your feedback is welcome and can be left in the comments of this post.

Open floor

@kjellr shared the unstyled Gutenberg starter theme. This theme is built to easily test unstyled Gutenberg. He’s been working on it and aiming to submit to the Theme Repo later this week so it’s available to more folks.

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