What is the Design Team?
The design group is focused on designing WordPress.
How to get involved?
Are you interested in joining the Design team? Great! The team is open to anyone who wants to help out, but we do it a little differently than other teams. Here are some guidelines to help you find a spot that fits your skills:
- The design team doesn’t meet regularly because we function better as part of other teams. In the past a designer interested in 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), for instance, would have to attend a meeting for design and another for accessibility. Nowadays, if accessibility is your main interest, a contributor can meet with the accessibility team and learn how to apply their design skills to better support that team’s work.
- We still communicate asynchronously in 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/. design channel but the chatter is minimal.
- A good place to start contributing to the design and user experience side of things, is to look into the Gutenberg repo in 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/, use labels Needs Design Feedback or Needs Design.
- We recommend that you attend meetings with other teams and find out if they need designers. Did you know that the community team sometimes needs help in designing and creating sites for smaller WordCamps? And the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team would appreciate any feedback on the WordCamp template.
