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.
These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.
The team continued the discussion about assigning team and contributor badges to folks who have been participating and don’t have them yet. @karmatosed created a spreadsheet to keep track of this and will start asking for badges.
We’re looking at the possibility of adding an automated slack onboarding workflow for new channel members. While we want to be careful this does not replace a human, we think this could be very useful. @williampatton will be creating a shareable doc so we can all start iterating over what we want the workflow to say.
The design team’s Trello board has been cleaned up and organized as it was recently proposed. We need to make sure we keep it up to date and create new cards as new tasks come up.
Gutenberg 7.0 was just released. 🎉 This release includes lots of efforts to optimize the code and 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..
@mapk highlighted @matveb’s recent 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/ issue Advancing the Block Interface and welcome everyone to leave any feedback and comments.
@karmatosed shared how folks at the recent WC Turino had some hurdles due to information not being in their language. She reminded us of the Contribution Handbook, a project from a few years ago meant to provide a quick, stepped guide to getting started. It was suggested we create a similar resource for design contribution days, and have it translated into other languages.
@williampatton raised an issue with themes and their readme files:
“Currently themes only have a readme to place important information and documentation. Since it is not rendered well in any place there really is not good place to show things that users will want to know about.”
He’d like to have this information exposed in some way and is looking for ideas and feedback.
@joyously brought up the recent proposal for a new color palette for WordPress. There have been some reported issues with alternate color schemes with the 5.3 update. In addition, the 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) team has started discussion about creating new color schemes to address specific accessibility needs.
