Design chat agenda for August 18

This week’s chat is on Thursday, August 18 at 20:00 UTC

  • WordPress 4.7 Design wishlist discussion
  • Design Weekly chat meeting time change
  • Tammie’s Old Ticket Sweep:
    • #29076 – The Minor Publishing Actions (Buttons) need some breathing room
    • #25419 – Add icon support for widgets on the admin page and customize screens
    • #22976 – Remove reference to categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. to tag converter from the tools page
    • #23477r21789 creates a breaking change in behavior for get_submit_button
    • #33141 – Search form clear button is clipped in Safari (OS X)
  • Open Floor

If anyone has other tickets the needs attention or other matter for the meeting, feel free to leave a comment with it. See everyone tomorrow!

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Design chat summary for August 11

This is the design chat summary on August 11. (Slack log).

In attendance was: myself, @karmatosed, @mapk, @foliovision, @melchoyce, @afercia

  • @celloexpressions had requested for us to bring up #34923 during the chat. It’s a complex ticket, but hopefully it will get some eyes on.
  • During open Floor, @karmatosed shared a list of tickets that need attention:
    • #37384: Text alignment in options-discussion.php – @foliovision is gonna spend some time on this
    • #30599: media views: improve keyboard accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) avoiding confusing tab stops – We came to the conclusion it doesn’t need ui feedback, it’s a purely accessibility issue
    • #32194: Post Locked Notification Dialog is not Responsive – @mapk found a bug in there and is opening up another ticket for it. @foliovision is also looking into it
    • #26605: Appearance of recent/future posts in dashboard looks off on mobile.
    • #27253: Enhancement Request: direct link to Drafts under Posts and Pages on the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. – I added a quick inspector mockup screenshot to the ticket to help visualize it.

We’ll be back next week on Thursday August 18th, 20:00 UTC!

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Design chat summary for August 4

This is the design chat summary on August 4. (Slack log).

In attendance was: myself, @hugobaeta, @foliovision, @ocean90, @petya, @melchoyce, @samuelsidler, @afercia, @presskopp

  • The about page was discussed #37246. It’s close to release and @hugobaeta led us through the latest iteration.

We’ll be back next week on Thursday August 11th, 20:00 UTC!

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Design chat summary for July 21

This is the design chat summary on July 14. (Slack log).

In attendance was: myself, @karmatosed, @foliovision, @mapk, @voldemortsen.

  • I gave a short update on the status of the about page #37246. Things are moving along and I’ll begin working on the layout of the page this week (here is a collection of past About page designs). @mapk is continuing the work on the shiny updates interactive bit (fallback for when the users have no updates), and I’ll circle back to the Native Font one.
  • WordCampWordCamp WordCamps 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. Brighton is happening this weekend and there’s a contribution day. @karmatosed will be there and is asking for tickets to work on – se feel free to reach out to her!
  • @FolioVision brought up #36999 – he updated the ticket with the requested screenshots and it seems ready for commit. @karmatosed and @voldemortsen +1’d it.
  • A discussion about the overuse of `!important` spawned off of the previous ticket, and there’s a ticket for an `!important` audit: #26350

We’ll be back next week on Thursday July 28th, 20:00 UTC!

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Design chat agenda for July 21

This week’s chat is at the usual time today at 20:00 UTC, in about 30 min from now.

Not much on the plate, as we get closer to the release:

  • About page for 4.6.
  • Open Floor

Look forward to seeing you there!

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Design chat summary for July 14

This is the design chat summary on July 14. (Slack log).

In attendance was: myself, @hugobaeta, @mapk, @melchoyce, @foliovision, @ocean50.

  • @hugobaeta updated us on the status with the about page #37246. Things are moving on there and @mapk is going to work on the shiny updates graphic with @hugobaeta working on the native fonts.
  • @FolioVision brought up #36999 that needs feedback.
  • WordCampWordCamp WordCamps 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. New York is happening this week and there’s a contribution day. There will be a design team lead by @melchoyce – woohoo!

We’ll be back next week Thursday July 21st, 20:00 UTC!

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Design chat agenda for July 14

This week’s chat is at the usual time tomorrow at Thursday 20:00 UTC. What are we going to chat about? We currently have one subject, but please leave your comments for other things to discuss.

  • About page for 4.6.

Look forward to seeing you there!

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Design chat summary for July 7

This is the design chat summary on July 7. (Slack log).

There were no other attendees this time.

  • @hugobaeta who was unable to make the meeting, sent an update on the 50 Shades of Grey project. You can find the codepen here.  He now has 100-900 list of dark greys to merge a few values (going from 19 individual color declarations to 9. The codepen with the color creation can be found here. This is great! He has asked if anyone wants to test, he has yet to work out context or tickets.
  • The about page for 4.6 is in full swing copy wise. There is a tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket #37246 everyone can follow, @hugobaeta is leading that charge there.
  • @swissspidy is asking for feedback on two tickets for Shiny Updates. #37230 and #37233, lets make sure he has some.

We’ll be back next week Thursday July 14th, 20:00 UTC!

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Design chat agenda for July 7

This week’s chat is at the usual time tomorrow at Thursday 20:00 UTC. Feel free to add more topics as comments and we will also have an open discussion at the end. I will be leading this chat this week.

  • 50 shades of grey update: @hugobaeta has given me an update to share as he is unable to attend.
  • About page for 4.6. Lets reserve some time and see what we can focus on this week for that.

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Design Chat Summary for June 30

This is the summary from the Design Chat on June 30 (Slack log)

Attendees:

@afercia @foliovision @helen @hugobaeta @jorbin @karmatosed @melchoyce@ocean90 @voldemortensen @zetaraffix (props for the amazing note taking)

Agenda:
1 – betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. testing new release
“It’s important for us as a team to poke it, prod it and shake that beta thing!”
Also important to test on different devices. So it would be great if it were a weekend project for all who can (the more eyes, the better).

2 – the “about page”
Every release we have to make a new About page with the new update (the page shown after you update). The last few releases, it has been done by our dear @melchoyce. Would be great to ease her work load and help here.
@ocean90 opened a ticket for that #37246.
@jorbin: “At times the design has also included interactive elements. We’ve demoed the updated password meter and a few other things in the past – The password meter was animated until you clicked into it and then it was interactive”

Here’s the link to the beta (to get a feel for about page content) https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-6-beta-1/

@ocean90: “Top feature is shiny updates and I’d like to see something with interaction for that.” Also discussed possible addition of video of features and interactivity of sorts.

We agreed on aiming at July 27, 2016 (which is RC1) as a deadline for About page.
That’s 4 weeks and should be a good time.

The team: @hugobaeta and @ocean90 will coordinate to start process. Next week they’ll update on areas that need help. Maybe we’ll also get @sararosso onboard for copywriting.
@zetaraffix, @karmatosed, @foliovision happy to be on team/involved

3 – open discussion
@afercia brings up tickets: #37230 and #37233
The idea is for all to give it some consideration and add to those tickets.

Also ticket #35191 could use some input with regards to new wording for the actions in the import page.

We’ll be back next week Thursday July 7th, 20:00 UTC!

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