Designer Hallway Hangout – 8/20/2020

Below is a recording from today’s Hallway Hangout with some awesome folks from the community, hosted by Joen Asmussen and Noah Shrader. This was a casual, remote meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. where we shared ideas and demos of some current design efforts in flight.

The topics of discussion were around the new WordPress Design Library, and some of the color refresh work being done to the 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. editor. If you’re a contributor, or want to be a contributor to the design of WordPress, you might find the content helpful!

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You will need permission to view/edit the new Figma WordPress Design Library. To request access, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” the #design channel in the Making WordPress 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/. and someone will get you added in Figma.

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