Category Archives: Weekly meeting

Ahmed Kabir Chaion 2:31 pm on August 10, 2022
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‘Open Floor’: Design Team Bi-weekly Meeting 10 August 2022

Its been a while since we’ve had an agenda based P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. published on the Make Design Blog. The most recent one dates back to October 2021. I want to invite contributors to attend the bi-weekly meeting today at Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 15:00 UTC in the #design channel on the WordPress Slack. Learn how to join by following the instructions in the handbook.

We’ll have an ‘open floor’- type meeting as seemed most effective for almost an year now to discuss the following items:

  • Design Table Lead for WordCamp US 2022
  • Design 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.
  • Big Picture Goals
  • Bi-Weekly Meeting

Hoping to see you all there!

#agenda, #meeting-agenda, #weekly-design-chat

Channing Ritter 6:31 pm on May 11, 2022
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Design Team Show & Tell — May 2022

Here’s a recap of our Show & Tell call today ✨

Attendees: @beafialho, @jameskoster, @saif2002, @javiarce, @shaunandrews, @fcoveram, @critterverse

General admin/housekeeping

  • As an experiment, we met at 16 UTC rather than 18 UTC today — several folks mentioned that the earlier meeting time was extremely helpful and would allow them to be able to attend more regularly
  • There seems to be a consensus (in the meeting today and in discussion in the Design channel) that an earlier meeting time would work better for many attendees
  • It would also be great if there could be alternate meeting times scheduled to accommodate folks in other time zones — we would need a volunteer to facilitate those meetings

Based on this discussion, I’d like to propose that we change the meeting time to be at 15 UTC moving forward (3 hours earlier than the previously scheduled time).

“What’s New in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/” release post assets

@fcoveram shared some assets he’s been creating for the next “What’s New in Gutenberg” release post. You can check out his latest designs in the Figma file.

Improvements to entity-saving

We also discussed potential improvements to multi-entity saving, including some issues that have already been opened around improving saving flows. The biggest takeaway was that it would be nice if multi-entity saving could be less complicated and more intutive, perhaps requiring less decision-making by the user when they click the Save button.

Here’s a recording of the call in case you missed it. See you next month!

#design, #design-show-and-tell

Channing Ritter 7:49 pm on April 13, 2022
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Design Team Show & Tell — April 2022

Here’s a recap of our Show & Tell call today ✨

Attendees: @estelaris, @javiarce, @empireoflight, @joen, @critterverse

We reviewed a few different items during the call:

  • A design for support/documentation pages that @estelaris has been working on
  • Possible directions for the About page headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. artwork by @fcoveram (notes shared on the ticket)
  • Some 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. 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. patterns shared by @melchoyce (notes shared on the issue)

One larger topic of discussion that came up was around redesigning the About page templates/layout, and potentially even making the switch over to creating the page using blocks. This project seems like something that could be approached outside of the regular release cycle when launch assets are typically moving along too quickly to make major changes. 

Here’s a recording of the call in case you missed it. See you next month!

#design, #design-show-and-tell

Channing Ritter 3:30 pm on February 15, 2022
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Show and Tell — February 2022

Our monthly show and tell meeting will take place on Zoom tomorrow, Wednesday February 16th at 18:00 UTC. A zoom link will be posted in the #design channel on the WordPress Slack. Learn how to join by following the instructions in the handbook.

A few issues have already been proposed for discussion in the Design channel, including:

  • Adding the ability to create new posts from 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. Editor, Gutenberg issue #38554
  • Making inner blocks easier to locate, Gutenberg issue #38578
  • Consider a standardized way to modify hover/focus/active states for blocks, Gutenberg issue #27075

Issues don’t have to be submitted beforehand — everyone is welcome to bring projects to share, questions, and topics for discussion!

If we have time, it would also be great to take a look at the WordPress 6.0 priorities that were outlined in the recent Preliminary Roadmap for 6.0 post and accompanying Gutenberg tracking issue.

The meeting will be recorded and shared on this post.

#design-show-and-tell, #meeting-agenda

shaunandrews 6:22 pm on November 16, 2021
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Show and Tell for Nov. 2021

Our monthly show and tell meeting will take place on Zoom tomorrow, Wednesday November 16th at 18:00 UTC. A zoom link will be posted in the #design channel on the WordPress Slack. Learn how to join by following the instructions in the handbook.

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The sibling inserter, the plus button, the quick inserter button, the in-between add button; Whatever you call it, this button often gets in the way. Do we need still need it? Lets chat about it.

This months discussion will focus on the [ + ] button that appears throughout the WordPress 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. editor. There are many names for it: the sibling inserter, the plus button, the quick inserter button, the in-between add button, and more. Last year I wrote a GitHub issue that describes some of the confusion around this button, and much of it is still relevant. I’d like to focus our discussion around:

  • Validating the problems outlined in the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue.
  • Reviewing some of the suggested solutions.
  • Updating the issue with a way forward.

We’ll also have time for anyone to share their work or ask questions to the design team. Just drop a comment below, or show up and raise your hand. I hope to see you on Zoom tomorrow.

Recent Happenings

There’s so much design work happening every day across 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/., TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., GitHub and more. For good measure, here’s a few highlights from the past few weeks…

A series of animatics shown when first visiting the site editor in WordPress 5.9.

A new welcome guide was added to the Site Editor to help explain some of the new features coming in WordPress 5.9.

Ongoing work to the Figma library aims update existing components and add new components for areas outside of the editor.

The WordPress Figma library has a new set of upcoming components in the works for you to use in your designs.

Openverse, a powerful tool that surfaces a vast range of openly-licensed content, has a new logo.

Openverse has shared some work on their new brand identity and symbol.

A new “Explore” button in the block inserter 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. opens a large modal to browse block patterns.

A new way to browse block patterns has merged and will be shipping with WordPress 5.9.

The new Site Editor now lives inside the Appearance menu. Alongside this change, the Site Editor no longer has it’s own sidebar navigation menu.

The wp-admin Appearance menu now contains items for the Editor, Styles, Templates, and Template Parts. Alongside this change, the W button within the Editor no longer displays it’s own navigation menu.

#design-show-and-tell, #meeting-agenda, #recent-happenings

shaunandrews 6:47 pm on October 19, 2021
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Show and Tell Oct 2021 Agenda

Our monthly show and tell takes place on Zoom tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. This monthly call is a chance for designers to share work, ask for feedback, and answer questions. All are welcome to join; A Zoom link will be shared in the #design channel on 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/.. (Not sure how to join Slack? We have instructions available just for you!)

We’re open to anyone sharing their work, but here’s a few things we’ll likely discuss:

If you have anything you’d like to add to this list let us know in the comments, and we’ll bring it up on the call.

#design-show-and-tell, #meeting-agenda

shaunandrews 3:42 pm on October 8, 2021
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Moving to Bi-Weekly Meetings

We had our team meeting a few days ago (Oct 6) in #design  on Slack. One of the topics was around the scheduling of our meetings. Currently, we do a weekly meeting with the last meeting of the month being on Zoom.

One of the agenda items for our meeting was to discuss moving to a bi-weekly schedule. Since everyone in attendance seemed to be in favor of the change we’ll be starting this new schedule immediately. Next week (Oct 13) there will be no formal meeting. Our next meeting (Oct 20) will take place at the normal time (18:00 UTC) and will be on Zoom.

While there will be less formal, synchronous time, I encourage everyone to continue to share progress, suggest issues, and ask for help in #design on 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/. at any time.

In addition to informal Slack chatter, there’s also some ongoing “Hallway Hangout” sessions happening throughout each week. These casual hangout sessions usually take place on Zoom and topics vary. Sometimes they are planned ahead, and other times they’re spur of the moment sessions announced in Slack.

Come join us in Slack and I hope to see you at a future meeting.

#meeting-agenda, #meeting-notes

shaunandrews 3:08 pm on October 6, 2021
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Agenda for Design Team Meeting, Oct 6, 2021

We’ll be having our weekly 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/. meeting today at 18:00 UTC in the #design channel on the WordPress Slack. Learn how to join by following the instructions in the handbook.

Agenda

  • Discuss an alternate meeting schedule
    • Bi-weekly
    • Rotating timezones
  • Discuss using meetings as a way to brainstorm solutions to a specific design problem

I hope to see you there.

#meeting-agenda

shaunandrews 9:54 pm on September 30, 2021
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Sept 2021 “Show & Tell” Recording

Our monthly “Show & Tell” Zoom call took place yesterday. This video chat is a place for designers to share their in-progress work and an opportunity for anyone to give feedback.

This months chat covered the following:

  • @karmatosed is planning to look into 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. support and will likely have a #hallway-hangout soon.
  • @javiarce shared his designs for background images.
  • @critterverse shared her designs for theme switching.

Next week we’ll have our regular, text-based 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/. meeting.

#design, #meeting-notes, #show-and-tell

shaunandrews 4:19 pm on September 28, 2021
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Design Team “Show & Tell” Meeting for September 2021

The Weekly Chat for WordPress Design team will take place on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 18:00 UTC.

As this is the last meeting of the month, we will be gathering on Zoom for our “Show & Tell.”

The agenda is open and we encourage anyone to share their design work with the team. If you have design work you’d like to share, or a topic you’d like to discuss together, please leave a comment below or in the #design channel of the WordPress Slack.

A Zoom link will be shared in the #design Slack channel when the meeting starts.

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.

#meeting-agenda, #show-and-tell