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The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.

Want to get involved?

Welcome! This all-volunteer team needs designers of various kinds. See our handbook and drop into #design once signed up for volunteer opportunities.

Our vision is to be the go-to resource for design for other teams across the WordPress open source project.

Find out how to get design help.

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First steps

So you want to contribute to the design team? That’s great. The team is open to anyone and you can easily get started. First up, a warm welcome, we need designers in this project so you are very welcome indeed 🙂

As a team we work on a lot of different things; from core to Dashicons and beyond. Here however are some good first steps as to how you can contribute to the design team.

Create a WordPress.org user account or login.
Join Slack and say ‘Hi’ – that way we can know you are looking to get involved and welcome you. Visit chat.wordpress.org and sign up using your WordPress.org user account.
Subscribe to the blog on make.wordpress.org/design. Being subscribed to this blog lets you keep in touch with the team and updates.
Find out the ways you can contribute here.

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WordPress.org

The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.

Want to get involved?

Find out how to get design help.

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