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Ahmed Chaion 2:19 pm on January 19, 2021
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Design Team Meeting Agenda for 20 January 2021

The Weekly Chat for Make WordPress Global Design will take place on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 18:00 UTC in the #design channel of the WordPress Slack. 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.

Here are the suggested topics:

  • Housekeeping
    • Call for note-takers and triage facilitators
  • Announcements
    • Shared Design & a11yAccessibility 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) Bug Scrub (schedule to be confirmed during the meeting)
  • Updates
  • Open floor

If you would like to add something to the agenda then please leave a comment. Thank you!

#agenda, #meeting-agenda

Ahmed Chaion 11:59 am on January 19, 2021
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Design Team Meeting Notes January 13, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting agenda here. 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.

Attendees: @estelaris, @chaion07, @manzwebdesigns, @paaljoachim, @ibdz, @karmatosed and Andrew Rulnick.

Housekeeping
  • We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.
  • Contributions to the Design Team is always welcomed. Please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @estelaris or @chaion07 and they will guide you through.
Announcement

Work is underway for WordPress 5.7 release. Read the p2 titled: WordPress 5.7 Planning Roundup on the #core blog. If you want to learn more about how the release process works then attending the dev chat in the #core channel would be a great idea which takes place at 6:00 AM UTC (for APAC) and at 8:00 PM UTC (for America).

Updates
  • @estelaris is working on the design for the documentations section. Last year we finished the work on the reclassification of articles that will help us create a new navigation. She has a full plan to finish the new design by the end of the first Quarter of 2021.
  • @ibdz will continue focusing on Iterating on Admin Color Schemes with #core-css.
  • The team would like to congratulate @hedgefield for being the Design Lead for WordPress 5.7 release.
Discussion on ‘Productive Triage Session’

The team went through a few GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ issues and TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. Tickets in the most recent working session. A lot of us felt that the triage resulted in a productive session as we want to have more folks joining so that we can move more tickets. During the last session we’re able to move forward a few tickets and pass a few that was focused towards WordPress 5.7 to @hedgefield. Last year we tried to reduce the ‘meeting fatigue’ factor for contributors and tried to reshape the way design team communicates.

#meeting-summary, #meeting-notes

Estela Rueda 8:00 am on January 12, 2021  

Design team meeting agenda for 13 January 2021

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday in the #design channel of the 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/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Here are the suggested topics:

If there is anything you would like to see added to the agenda, please leave a comment also.

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Estela Rueda 4:17 am on December 17, 2020
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Design team meeting notes Dec. 16, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. 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.

Housekeeping

We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.

Announcements

This is the last design team meeting for 2020. We will be back on 15 January with a design triage.

Don’t forget to tune into Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word on the 17th of December (tomorrow).

Learn WordPress is live now. Whether you are new to WordPress or a seasoned developer/designer, there is always something to learn.

Updates

@estelaris (that’s me) was invited to WC Sevilla on 26-29 December to lead the Documentation table and work with both the documentation and polyglots teams to understand what features are needed for better translations in HelpHub.

Discussion

Last month we made changes to our triage sessions and agreed to have only one session and do a review of labels and keywords to move the tickets. The length of the triage session was also shortened. The idea was to have fewer meetings and work more efficiently.

After a few weeks, we have noticed that contributors expect working sessions and we have had to add unscheduled sessions to review tickets. Also, the number of tickets and PRs that are not being worked on has increased, both in Track and GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/.

Our idea is to keep to only one session, increase it as need it, between 30-45 minutes and give feedback/assign design work.

One of the questions focus on the reason why triage is not working, is it due to the length of time, or time when triage is run and content?. There were several points made and expect a post about how to run triage in the next few days.

#meeting-notes

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Estela Rueda 1:54 pm on December 16, 2020  

Design team meeting agenda for 16 December 2020

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday in the #design channel of the 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/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Here are the suggested topics:

  • Housekeeping
    • Call for note-takers and triage facilitators
  • Announcements
    • Today is the last team meeting of the year. We will be back on 15 January 2021 with a triage session
  • Updates
  • Discussion
    • Bringing back a more productive triage session (45 to 60 mins)
  • Open floor

If there is anything you would like to see added to the agenda, please leave a comment also.

#meeting-agenda

Estela Rueda 9:55 am on December 1, 2020
Tags: 5.6 release, color schemes, , , G2, , WP notify   

Design meeting team notes December 2, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. 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.

Housekeeping

We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.

The team is also looking forward to a holiday break, a post about this will follow the notes.

Announcements

Release 5.6 is scheduled for 8 December, this is the first all-female team release and both @mrahmadawaisand @estelaris are part of the release team.

The #core team posted a wish list for release 5.7

The marketing team wants your input for The Month of WordPress, they meet on Wednesdays at 2.00 pm UTC in the #marketing Slack channel.

Updates

@ibdz has recently reincorporated to the work on the visual regression report for color schemes with the #core-css team.

@hedgefield continues working on mockups for the notification center project and it should be ready to being prototyping soon. There are still several issues going in the WP notify repo, if anyone wants to follow up.

Main topic

The call for 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. closed on 30 November and we only had @chaion07 nomination. Since he had several +1 from the team, we decided to name him next design team rep and will be replacing @karmatosed. There is an announcement to follow.

Open floor

@hedgefield asked about the progress on G2. For those unfamiliar with it, G2 is the next iteration of the post editor 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.. At the moment, @joen and @itsjonq are working on the project. Here is a calendar of the current status and there will also be a summary of the work being done. In the meantime, you can read more about it in @itsjonq‘s blog.

@ibdzalso mentioned that the WP Notify project is inviting designers to challenge the direction now.

#meeting-notes

#5-6-release, #color-schemes, #g2, #team-rep, #wp-notify

Estela Rueda 8:00 am on December 1, 2020  

Design team meeting agenda for 2 December 2020

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday in the #design channel of the 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/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Here are the suggested topics:

  • Housekeeping
    • Call for note-takers and triage facilitators
    • holiday schedule
  • Announcements
    • Release 5.6 is scheduled for 8 December, you can review the field guide
    • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team posted a wish list for release 5.7
    • The marketing team is working on The Month of WordPress for December, to add something attend a marking meeting on Wednesdays at 2.00 pm UTC in the #marketing Slack channel.
  • Updates
  • Main topic
    • New 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.
  • Open floor

If there is anything you would like to see added to the agenda, please leave a comment also.

#meeting-agenda

Estela Rueda 10:35 pm on November 27, 2020  

Design team Show & Tell for 25 November 2020

The design team is still working on 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. development as well as experimenting into other platforms for live design sessions, some of the highlights:

@itsjonq is doing live demos on G2 components on Twitch. He will be announcing any sessions in the Slack #design channel.

@mapk showed us improvements on the query block and we actually discussed solutions like combining steps in one screen or splitting the action into two steps/two screens.

@karmatosed mentioned an issue brought up in the Slack #design channel regarding the libraries that exist in Figma. @karmatosed archived the old Figma libraries and updated the design handbook: Figma tools as well as the WordPress components pages.

@itsjonq consulted the team about his work on project maps and planning for G2 components.

@estelaris reminded the team about adding their nominations on the open call for a new team rep. Nominations will close on November 30 and voting will take place on December 2 during the weekly meeting.

design team members participating in the show and tell for November 2020

#meeting-notes

Estela Rueda 1:40 am on November 24, 2020  

Design team Show & Tell 25 November 2020

This week’s meeting will be held at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday in the #design channel of the 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/.. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

There is no set agenda for Show and Tell and the design team opens the meeting for anyone who would like to present what they are working on. Mostly, it is members of the design team that take advantage of this, but if you are member of another team and are working on a WP design-related project/feature, you are welcome to join us.

If you would like to present, please leave a comment below.

#meeting-agenda

Ahmed Chaion 11:28 am on November 20, 2020
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Design Team Meeting Notes November 18, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting agenda here. 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.

Housekeeping
  • We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.
  • There is a call for team rep nominations. @karmatosed is rotating out of this role, but she’ll still be contributing so it’s not a goodbye! The call is for one 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. who will join @estelaris.
Updates

@hedgefield drew attention to efforts being given to the WP notification center project where developers are discussing and making some early designs. The current focuses are on the admin bar, settings page etc. Feel free to check it out and leave some feedback on the Github page.

@mapk shared the link to the WordPress “Hallway Hangout” a few days back regarding blocks 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.. A lot of conversation has revolved around 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. with prototypes’ and mock-ups shared. If anyone would like to jump in and provide feedback, they can do so in the post comments or on the actual issue in Github.

Discussion

@clorith published a p2 titled Changing up the forum front page and invited folks from Design to provide feedback to improve the overall user experience of the forum. Please feel free to leave comments on the post.

Open Floor

@hedgefield tried to put a spotlight on the ‘log in’ experience when contributors wishing to check their ‘five for the future‘ pledges. The interface would bring them right back to 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/ homepage with no indication if you are logged in or not including no option to get to your profile. @karmatosed suggested to investigate the path and start documentation for it.

#meeting-summary, #meeting-notes