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 Slack 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
@mapk updates us on Gutenberg 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/ developments. Gutenberg 6.3 is out! Including new Navigate/Edit modes, and some major Table block 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. updates. Priorities for Gutenberg development will now be discussed every week in the #core-editor channel, great for anyone wanting to stay up-to-date and lend a hand.
@melchoyce did a new iteration in the block directory mockups that she’d like feedback on. User testing will also be done at WordCamp WordCamps 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. Brighton this weekend.
@davewhitley points us to the Component Review project, to review all the new UI 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. elements introduced in Gutenberg, and make them generic enough to use in all of WordPress and document them properly.
@hedgefield lets us know that WordPress 5.3 will likely include an update for the Site Health grading, and also wonders whether design could take a look at wordpress.tv, which is becoming a bit dated. Literally, there is no 2019 content on the wordcamp.tv landing page. @karmatosed and @melchoyce ruminate on the pressed-for-time meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team and their priorities, concluding that adding a few tickets with mockups and asking in #meta would be the best approach.
Open floor
@blaidalfo expressed interest in helping with the Figma libraries containing the WordPress components. @davewhitley also contributed some documentation which can be found here. An official list of maintainers will be published soon. If you want in, let us know in #design!
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