Summary for July 6th 2010 UI Chat

Started today’s meeting with a brief review of Styleguide progress – props gastonfig for compeleting the media uploader section and handing it over to TECannon. Still on track for completion in first week of Aug.

Spent the rest of the meeting talking with JShreve about his GSoC project, a few wireframes were done by several people however most were pretty much identical to existing ideas services such as uservoice – so with that structure in mind we’re opening the floor up for some preliminary mockups by next week.

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Summary for June 29th 2010 UI Chat

Two main tasks today:

  • Justin Shreve is now ready for wireframes for his GSoC project – let’s have something by next Tuesday, uploaded as a reply to this post.
  • We want to have the style-guide finished by the first week in August, to coincide with the release of the WP handbooks.

If you would like to contribute to either of these, please get in touch!

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Summary for June 22nd 2010 UI Chat

Super light meeting today

  • Styleguide in progress, TECannon aiming to complete this week if poss.
  • Mini-projects for 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/ are going to be completed for the next 2 months, exact projects TBA, however lots of things on the table such as pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and theme repos, showcase, ideas forum/suggestions theme, support forums, documentation, etc.
  • Anyone interested in helping should attend this week’s Dev Meeting on Thursday the 24th where this will be discussed in more detail.
  • TECannon will be taking 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. specific notes on Thursday for anyone who is unable to attend (myself included).

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Summary for June 15th 2010 UI Chat

Light meeting today

  • Progress update on StyleGuide – TECannon working on most material, JohnONolan to contribute graphics, Gastonfig to work on media screens section
  • Start thinking about ideas for 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//extend/plugins upcoming redesign, with considerations for:
    • How to account for revolving contrubutors on plugins
    • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. plugins vs Regular plugins
    • Incorporating pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party reviews

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Summary for June 8th 2010 UI Chat

Main things covered:

  • Justin Shreve’s GSoC  Project – Functionality being built first, 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. integration later. We’re going to get started with wireframes now, looking at home page, single idea page, and search. Anyone can submit ideas for these. You can find his project outline here, active demo of the project is up here, follow Justin’s updates about the project on his blog here. I’ll try and get Justin into another UI meeting in the future for any questions / discussions.
  • Styleguide update – TECannon and JohnONolan to review styleguide and come up with organised strategy to get to first working draft. Followup meeting will take place at 2pm eastern to review this.
  • Last remaining UI ticket for 3.0 – #13525 has a UI patch, nacin is reviewing this.
  • RTL patch from last week was completed, props TECannon

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Summary for June 1st 2010 UI Chat

Light meeting today in the run up to 3.0 launch.

  • Reviewed 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. tickets remaining – almost there!
  • TECannon review of StyleGuide – filled in a few more blanks, some things on hold till 3.1 (colours etc)
  • GSoC is the next big thing to be tackled, I still need to find time to talk to Jane about this.
  • Small RTL patch for screen options tabs, TECannon will look at this.
  • Everyone to test RC1 UI stuff as much as possible this week.

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Summary for May 20th 2010 UI Chat

My first 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. Chat summary!

  • Review active state background on menu items, lighten them up in a similar way to headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes./footer. – Rick Nunn
  • Revise grey colour palette on user profile (low priority)
  • Combine similar/redundant colours, there are currently around 96 different colours used in the WordPress UI – TECannon
  • New inventory of colours to be included in styleguide – TECannon
  • Remove gradient from screen options tabs – JohnONolan
  • Update notifications bubbles moving to bright orange http://twitpic.com/1meikk/full – JohnONolan
  • GSoC Projects – Jane+John to discuss organisation and update later in detail
  • New Meeting Schedule – UI Chats will now be on Tuesdays at the same time: 2pm Eastern, 7pm GMT

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