Design Team Meeting Notes November 18, 2020

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 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.

Housekeeping

• We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.
• There is a call for team rep nominations. @karmatosed is rotating out of this role, but she’ll still be contributing so it’s not a goodbye! The call is for one team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. who will join @estelaris.

Updates

@hedgefield drew attention to efforts being given to the WP notification center project where developers are discussing and making some early designs. The current focuses are on the admin bar, settings page etc. Feel free to check it out and leave some feedback on the Github page.

@mapk shared the link to the WordPress “Hallway Hangout” a few days back regarding blocks in 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.. A lot of conversation has revolved around the ‘UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. with prototypes’ and mock-ups shared. If anyone would like to jump in and provide feedback, they can do so in the post comments or on the actual issue in Github.

Discussion

@clorith published a p2 titled Changing up the forum front page and invited folks from Design to provide feedback to improve the overall user experience of the forum. Please feel free to leave comments on the post.

Open Floor

@hedgefield tried to put a spotlight on the ‘log in’ experience when contributors wishing to check their ‘five for the future‘ pledges. The interface would bring them right back to the WordPress.OrgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ homepage with no indication if you are logged in or not including no option to get to your profile. @karmatosed suggested to investigate the path and start documentation for it.

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