Welcome! This all-volunteer team needs designers of various kinds. See our handbook and drop into #design for volunteer opportunities.
Our vision is to be the go-to resource for design for other teams across the WordPress open source project.
This was the agenda, and you can find the transcription here on Slack.
We ran out of time, so WP Online Summit pt. 1 will be moved to next week.
Find the transcription here on Slack. The links on the main topics will jump straight to where this item was discussed in the meeting.
Design team related
See Inbox column on Trello board. Calls for design made via the Make blog, Slack, etc. should be transferred to Inbox each week, along with any new cards that need to be acknowledged.
See Calls for Design column on Trello board. Anything to be archived? Follow up on in-progress cards, etc.
Filter Trello board for ‘meeting’ label which means that some work has gone into the card, and we have enough detail to make a decision on it.
Typically from Trac or GitHub
Filter Trello board for ‘needs discussion’ label. If none, triage any Trello cards that are not yet owned.
Final question by @boemedia about the Invision licenses. What’s the status? @karmatosed says we have it and she will write a post and explain how designers can get a license.
On 2 and 3 March 2018, WordCamp Antwerp (Belgium) was held for the second time. We had around 50 people attending the Contributor Afternoon. The focus for this day was on Core, Documentation, Support, Community, Polyglots and Design.
It was my first time as a design table lead, and we had four people in total attending the design table in various shifts. After a short introduction and explaining about the communication and documentation structure we currently use on Slack, Trac, Trello and the Design blog on make.wordpress.org, we looked into what tickets or projects could be worked on during the afternoon.
First, we looked at the expertise present at the table, and what people would like to do. We looked at the call for design for icons and plugin headers, but good documentation on this call was missing (at the time of writing this is improved and clarified on Trello by @cathibosco), so we moved on. Since one of the attendees wasn’t a designer but had loads of marketing experience, he looked into trac tickets he could give UI/UX-feedback on. In total, 5 tickets were responded to.
Another attendee had both design and development experience, and worked on new dashicons. Thanks to @empireoflight for responding very quickly to the new contributor’s questions via Slack, 2 fixes were made for dashicons.
Toon, Gijs and Monique at Contributor Day Antwerp 2018
By the end of the afternoon, we had 2 more people joining the design table and we discussed what type of work is done by the design team. There’s still a misunderstanding that design is only about ‘making something look nice’ and that you cannot contribute if you can’t draw. We busted this myth together, emphasising that contributing to the WordPress design team means contributing to the overall user experience of people using WordPress.
In the end, we evaluated the afternoon and talked about how easy people find it to contribute to design. Overall, contributors said they really needed the explanation given this afternoon on the used channels and their purpose. As well, the long list of blogs on the make.wordpress.org/design landing page isn’t very inviting to read through.
We concluded that it had been an educating and interesting afternoon and people were inspired to continue to contribute online.
TL;DR – We just had a really productive meeting where we touched on design needs, adding some structure to the work the design team is doing, as well as reporting on all the awesome stuff getting done. Interested in helping? There’s something here for you!
Below are the exciting things we covered in the meeting!
We’re looking for help, if you think you’re a match please reach out! If you have a call for design yourself you can add it as a comment on this post or join the weekly #design meeting and we can discuss after covering other items.
If you’re interested in helping reach out to Tammie Lister or Mel Choyce and they can connect you. Or you can comment in the Slack channel on the specific request (make sure to checkmark “also send to #design” if you do, so that it doesn’t get missed: https://d.pr/i/ExTJ3o)
We’re going to start moving from weekly calls for design updates to instead posting a monthly summary based on the weekly #design meetings.@joshuawold and @boemedia will post the summary, and if a third person wants to help out we won’t say no! 🙂
If you’re still reading this, and haven’t yet felt you can make a contribution to the design of WordPress, we can emphatically answer that you can! It might feel a bit overwhelming on where to start, the easiest way is to join the next #design meeting and look for an opportunity to give your support, or grab one of the calls for design issues above and jump in.
Design team related
See column in Trello roadmap. Requests via the Make blog, Slack, etc.
Filter Trello roadmap for ‘meeting’ label
Typically from Trac
See Inbox column in Trello roadmap.
See Trello roadmap.
Feel free to leave a comment and we can discuss anything people want.
Please join me in congratulating @boemedia, @joshuawold and @mizejewski on becoming team reps for design. You all have been doing an awesome job focusing and improving the communication of the design team. Thank you and let’s join in welcoming them officially as team reps!
This week’s #design meeting is happening Thursday, January 25 18:00 UTC.
This weeks agenda is:
Feel free to leave a comment and we can discuss anything people want.
This week’s #design meeting is happening Thursday, January 18 18:00 UTC.
This weeks agenda is:
Feel free to leave a comment and we can discuss anything people want.
This is the weekly call for updates for those contributing to design, as outlined here.
The idea of these it to keep all designers connected. If you are contributing to design please add your reply as a comment to this post by Thursday 23:00 UTC. All comments will be combined into a weekly update post on Friday for the design team.
Not a designer but you have something you’d like us to work on? No problem, you can also leave a comment. Just tell us what it is, if a specific team or skill also tell us that.
Just reply to the following:
This is the weekly call for updates for those contributing to design, as outlined here.
The idea of these it to keep all designers connected. If you are contributing to design please add your reply as a comment to this post by Thursday 23:00 UTC. All comments will be combined into a weekly update post on Friday for the design team.
Not a designer but you have something you’d like us to work on? No problem, you can also leave a comment. Just tell us what it is, if a specific team or skill also tell us that.
Just reply to the following:
