Design Share #68 (Nov 4-Nov 15)

The Design Team provides design for the WordPress project.

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.

Figma Access

You don’t need edit access to use the Figma libraries, you can copy components from there into your own drafts. If you’re a contributor with the ability to grant edit access, please be mindful, and downgrade to view access once the initial need for edit has waned.

This is a bi-weekly update of work the design group contributed to. Work happens in overview issues, and in needs design, or needs design feedback issues.

If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, drop a note in the #design channel. If you have questions, you can also ask them there, or as a comment on this post.

Useful Figma files

WordPress Design System
WordPress.org Design Library
Post Graphics
Gutenberg Project Folder (requires view)

Useful Tracking Issues

Design work

General Updates

WordPress 6.7

Status: Completed

Now out, 6.7 “Rollins” features a new zoom tool to build with patterns at a high level, and a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Five, that takes advantage of this by supplying thoughtfully designed patterns that work leverage section styles. Read all about it on the release site.

Menu navigation editing

Status: In progress

Out of a conversation about improving the management of navigation menus, we started exploring enhancements of the menu edition flow in the Editor for both Write and Design modes. The current does not address certain use cases and the page arrangement interaction feels buggy.

Page preview in global styles browsing

Status: In progress

Based on explorations made for browsing global styles in the Admin, we talked about the need of previewing site-wise changes on different pages without breaking the style editing flow. This exploration is very in the clouds and needs more polishing, but the mockups intend to spark discussion about its value proposition.

#design, #design-share