The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.
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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
Each fortnight a team repTeam RepA 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. write an update post on make/updates. Here is the workflow for this.
The post is to go on the updates site, written by a team rep.
Write the title with date of the update:
Design team update <date>
Add a little about what happened in those two weeks. Be sure to include any meeting notes as links and note triages that happened
On Wednesday the team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Tuesday saw triage run also in #design. The week before saw 2 triages and a weekly meeting.
Next, add what is coming up:
CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. triage: Monday 17:30 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/ triage: Tuesday 17:00 UTC
Then add in any update posts, specifically Gutenberg:
The Gutenberg design updates continue and you can catch them here and here.
Discussions section can have anything post wise specific to make/design that needs surfacing. For example, a Figma discussion or post about icons. Put that under a heading ‘Discussions’.
There is a point for feedback on this week’s notes about shifting the time for daylight saving. Have your say in the comments.
Next, wrap it in ‘Calls for involvement’:
Gutenberg continues to need people to give feedback and create designs. The about page needs help iterating. A call has been made for volunteers to run triage sessions.
Finally, add in a note about if having a WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more., if you want to:
If you are having a WordCamp that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.
You are ready to post, but put #design on the post and then check a preview link before posting an update. Just to make sure you have any links working.
That’s it! You’ve written an update post and kept everyone in the project aware of all the awesome things going on within design.