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.
There’s a WordPress Component Library in Figma. Duplicate to edit, direct access is reserved for the design team.
I think Fridays are speeding up. It’s hard to believe another one is already here.
Discussion around “element queries” is happening. The reason is because we’d like to show the mobile-web view of Gutenberg in the Customizer for the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.-blocks stuff. The CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. side still isn’t at the mobile-web view yet, but it’s working better thanks to this PR.
The usability tests are being conducted weekly. One thing I’ve noticed frequently is the lack of ease when placing images along side other images or text. Sure we’ve got blocks that make this possible (which is awesome!) but it’s not quite as discoverable yet.
I submitted an issue a while back regarding how we might make this better. We’d allow users to drag a simple block (Image block) onto another simple block (Image block) which would then automatically create a complex block (Gallery block).
Here’s a couple older gifs courtesy of @kjellr.
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