Design chat agenda for October 13

This week’s chat is happening today, at 17:00UTC

On this weeks agenda:

If anyone has other tickets the needs attention or other matter for the meeting, feel free to leave a comment with it. See you in a bit in the #design channel in Slack!

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Design chat agenda for September 15

This week’s chat is happening tomorrow, at 17:00UTC

On this weeks agenda:

  • #27159 – Remove/re-arrange TinyMCE buttons to improve user experience, and new related tickets:
    • #38049 – Rename Headings in TinyMCE
    • #38050 – Replace `formatselect` with `styleselect` in TinyMCE
  • 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. Tickets (brought in by @celloexpressions):
    • #34343 – Make panel headers sticky? – thoughts on the gif showing the interaction?
    • #38002 – provide a path to editing posts created in nav menus – brainstorming session for how to provide users with links to edit newly-published content.
    • #37661 – A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the Customizer – make a schedule of deadlines for feedback and testing
    • #35210 – Add notification area to Customizer
      • Review of 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. of comment 81 and how to clean up the styling
  • #22058 – Improve custom background properties UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. – give feedback on the new proposal and patch from @cdog
  • Open Floor
  • If anyone has other tickets the needs attention or other matter for the meeting, feel free to leave a comment with it. See you tomorrow in the #design channel in Slack!

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    Design chat agenda for August 25

    I’m sorry for the late post, this week’s chat is happening in a few minutes, at 17:00UTC

    Since I didn’t get to post an agenda yesterday, we’re gonna keep it simple today:

    • Design projects for 4.7
    • Plan of action for #27159
    • Open Floor

    If anyone has other tickets the needs attention or other matter for the meeting, feel free to leave a comment with it. See you in a few minutes!

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    Design chat summary for August 18

    This is the design chat summary on August 18. (Slack log).

    In attendance was: myself, @michaelarestad, @foliovision, @mapk, @melchoyce, @jorbin, @helen, @westonruter, @remediosgraphic

    • I brought up the WordPress 4.7 Design Wishlist post, and @jorbin mentioned there are a lot of design-focused ideas on Helen’s post on make/core. Comment on one of the other, either is fine.
    • We decided to move the weekly chat time back to 17:00 UTC, starting next week.
    • @celloexpressions brought up a few tickets in the agenda comments that we discussed:
      • #34923 – Allow users to more seamlessly create page-based nav menus during customization – needs better wording for the link to edit a newly-published page. The discussion resulted in a consensus to actually remove the link.
      • #37661 – A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes 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. – It needs a lot more 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. thought, it wasn’t an easy ticket to talk during the chat as it’s quite intricate. If anyone wants to contribute some UX thinking there, that would be very welcomed!
      • #29158 – Customizer UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. Design lacks contrast for visual hierarchy and does not match wp-admin – @celloexpressions believes it needs a strategy for back arrow hover/focus styles. in the conversation it became clear that the ticket is becoming too broad, and that some of the things in there needs a prototype for testing. Everyone agreed that the left-border blue indicator should be committed, and that the rest of the ticket should be broken up into smaller tickets.
      • #22058 – Improve custom background properties UI – he wanted us to focus on the last comment that mentions an idea of leaving these decisions up to the themes. The conversation went into a notion that these options are visualizing what the CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. is doing, not necessarily helping the user make a decision. Overall everyone feels that the solution in the ticket is a tad heavy and not really focused on the users. The conversation continued on the ticket itself.
    • @mapk asked for us to help out with some critique on the implementation of the screenshots portion of the plugin page on the new Plugins Repository (in beta). The generalized consensus was that the screenshots should be in order and include the description very clearly, as in current pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party directory they are used to guide users through the usage of the plugin mostly. Questions like “should this be a separate tab” were brought up as well. @melchoyce suggestion was for @mapk to step back and sketch other ideas and consider how both users and plugin developers are using and could use this.
    • We skipped @karmatosed Old Ticket Sweep (but, please, go through them in the chat agenda post!

    It was a great and active chat! Thanks everyone for participating. Next week we’ll be moving to the new(old) meeting time. See you on Thursday August 25, 17:00 UTC!

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    Design chat agenda for August 18

    This week’s chat is on Thursday, August 18 at 20:00 UTC

    • WordPress 4.7 Design wishlist discussion
    • Design Weekly chat meeting time change
    • Tammie’s Old Ticket Sweep:
      • #29076 – The Minor Publishing Actions (Buttons) need some breathing room
      • #25419 – Add icon support for widgets on the admin page and customize screens
      • #22976 – Remove reference to categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. to tag converter from the tools page
      • #23477r21789 creates a breaking change in behavior for get_submit_button
      • #33141 – Search form clear button is clipped in Safari (OS X)
    • Open Floor

    If anyone has other tickets the needs attention or other matter for the meeting, feel free to leave a comment with it. See everyone tomorrow!

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    WordPress 4.7 Design Wishlist

    Hello designers!

    First off I’d like to congratulate everyone on a great 4.6 release yesterday! During this cycle we brought back regular weekly meetings around design – It’s been a learning experience for @karmatosed and I, so we appreciate everyone who’s been actively engaged and supportive.

    Now it’s time to start focusing on what we want to see in 4.7. Had a conversation with @helen (the 4.7 release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release.) and she suggested we have a design-focused wishlist post here to expose what is important to focus on in terms of design and user experience. She posted today on make/core about this as well, so you can comment on either post with your ideas. I’ll make sure whatever gets posted here reaches her for consideration. She also wrote a great post with some ideas for the release.

    Let’s get a conversation started!

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    Design chat summary for August 11

    This is the design chat summary on August 11. (Slack log).

    In attendance was: myself, @karmatosed, @mapk, @foliovision, @melchoyce, @afercia

    • @celloexpressions had requested for us to bring up #34923 during the chat. It’s a complex ticket, but hopefully it will get some eyes on.
    • During open Floor, @karmatosed shared a list of tickets that need attention:
      • #37384: Text alignment in options-discussion.php – @foliovision is gonna spend some time on this
      • #30599: media views: improve keyboard accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) avoiding confusing tab stops – We came to the conclusion it doesn’t need ui feedback, it’s a purely accessibility issue
      • #32194: Post Locked Notification Dialog is not Responsive – @mapk found a bug in there and is opening up another ticket for it. @foliovision is also looking into it
      • #26605: Appearance of recent/future posts in dashboard looks off on mobile.
      • #27253: Enhancement Request: direct link to Drafts under Posts and Pages on the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. – I added a quick inspector mockup screenshot to the ticket to help visualize it.

    We’ll be back next week on Thursday August 18th, 20:00 UTC!

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    Design chat summary for July 21

    This is the design chat summary on July 14. (Slack log).

    In attendance was: myself, @karmatosed, @foliovision, @mapk, @voldemortsen.

    • I gave a short update on the status of the about page #37246. Things are moving along and I’ll begin working on the layout of the page this week (here is a collection of past About page designs). @mapk is continuing the work on the shiny updates interactive bit (fallback for when the users have no updates), and I’ll circle back to the Native Font one.
    • WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Brighton is happening this weekend and there’s a contribution day. @karmatosed will be there and is asking for tickets to work on – se feel free to reach out to her!
    • @FolioVision brought up #36999 – he updated the ticket with the requested screenshots and it seems ready for commit. @karmatosed and @voldemortsen +1’d it.
    • A discussion about the overuse of `!important` spawned off of the previous ticket, and there’s a ticket for an `!important` audit: #26350

    We’ll be back next week on Thursday July 28th, 20:00 UTC!

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    Design chat agenda for July 21

    This week’s chat is at the usual time today at 20:00 UTC, in about 30 min from now.

    Not much on the plate, as we get closer to the release:

    • About page for 4.6.
    • Open Floor

    Look forward to seeing you there!

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    Design Chat Summary for June 16

    This is the summary from the Design Chat on June 16 (Slack log)

    Attendees: @karmatosed, @voldemortensen

    We had no agenda today, so it was all open discussion. But since it was only 3 of us, we didn’t had much objective topics to talk about.

    Next week @karmatosed and I will be in Vienna for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe! If you’re around, come say hi and join us on Sunday for the contributors day in the Design table. We’ll coordinate with @ocean90 to try and move some pending design tickets along while we’re all together there!

    There won’t be a chat next week. We’ll be back to the weekly chats on Thursday June 30, 20:00 UTC!

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