Design meeting team notes December 2, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join 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/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Housekeeping

We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.

The team is also looking forward to a holiday break, a post about this will follow the notes.

Announcements

Release 5.6 is scheduled for 8 December, this is the first all-female team release and both @mrahmadawaisand @estelaris are part of the release team.

The #core team posted a wish list for release 5.7

The marketing team wants your input for The Month of WordPress, they meet on Wednesdays at 2.00 pm UTC in the #marketing Slack channel.

Updates

@ibdz has recently reincorporated to the work on the visual regression report for color schemes with the #core-css team.

@hedgefield continues working on mockups for the notification center project and it should be ready to being prototyping soon. There are still several issues going in the WP notify repo, if anyone wants to follow up.

Main topic

The call for design team repTeam Rep A 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. closed on 30 November and we only had @chaion07 nomination. Since he had several +1 from the team, we decided to name him next design team rep and will be replacing @karmatosed. There is an announcement to follow.

Open floor

@hedgefield asked about the progress on G2. For those unfamiliar with it, G2 is the next iteration of the post editor UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing.. At the moment, @joen and @itsjonq are working on the project. Here is a calendar of the current status and there will also be a summary of the work being done. In the meantime, you can read more about it in @itsjonq‘s blog.

@ibdzalso mentioned that the WP Notify project is inviting designers to challenge the direction now.

#meeting-notes

#5-6-release, #color-schemes, #g2, #team-rep, #wp-notify