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 SourceOpen 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.
We meet and have ongoing discussions in Slack#design
Team: Wednesday 18:00 UTC
Triage: CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./metaMetaMeta 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.: Monday 16:30 UTC GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/: Tuesday 16:00 UTC
If you’d like to contribute to the design or front-end, feel free to contribute to tickets labelled Design. We could use your thoughtful replies, mockups, animatics, sketches, doodles. It’s best to keep proposed changes simple and constrained in scope so that it’s easy to compare, discuss, and implement changes.
Labels: each GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ issue has labels that denote the ‘state’.
Screenshotter:add screenshots to issues that have none of the problems.
Informer: ask for more information as can’t replicate a problem.
Tester: test not only GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ on all devices, browsers and situations, but also test bugs here and here. Also testing any PR is a great way to help move issues along.
Reviewing code:CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. for example is crucial.
Note: due to technical nature some of the triaging is a little intimidating for new contributors.
Terminal app if on mac (or another way to interact at that level): at some point you’re going to have to dive into command line but there are some simple steps to this you can always refer to.