Design Share: Mar 13–Mar 24

Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.

Mercantile Social Kit

A few are working with marketing on a social kit for Mercantile Swag Store. In that process, we defined some color styles that could be further expanded and considered for Mercantile website updates, or any updates related to Mercantile in the future.

Spacing controls

Padding and margin controls use the new stepped slider to provide easily clickable preset sizes that are unified across your theme. The unlinked variations, however, take up a lot of space. In 49264, Jay and others are exploring a more condensed interface.

Scaling 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. options menu

Initial ideation around how the block options menu can be scaled, and avoid the burial of common actions. Github issue.

Ideating on the template management view

Flowing in and out of the template management view in the site editor currently feels a bit awkward. This mockup explores a view-toggle pattern for moving between the ‘browsing’ and ‘managing’ contexts.

A note from @sereedmedia

There is a new Make 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/. channel focused on 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/ redesign project #website-redesign


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