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 sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.

Access the WordPress Component Library in Figma and learn more about how we use it in the handbook.

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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 coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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 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/. 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.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/ 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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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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