Meetings and triage

On Wednesday the design team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Monday and Tuesday saw triages run also in #design.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.
• Volunteers are also wanted for people to run triages. You will be taught how to do this so you don’t need any experience. Just raise your virtual hand in #design on 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/..

If you are having a 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. that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.

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After a hiatus for the end of year break, the design team is back in full force. This week saw 2 triages and 1 meeting.

Meetings and triage

On Wednesday the design team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Monday and Tuesday saw triages run also in #design.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.
• Are you interested in being a notetaker for the team meetings? If so please leave a comment on last week’s notes or raise a hand in #design 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/..
• Volunteers are also wanted for people to run triages. You will be taught how to do this so you don’t need any experience.

Posts to catch up on

• Author Card Block Exploration
• Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #42

If you are having a 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. that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.

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This is the last update post from the design team for this year. Updates will resume the second week of January. Meetings and triages are also on pause until 6th January 2020. The team is taking this time to recharge, reboot and come back fresh.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to design in 2019 as the year wraps up.

Meetings and triage

On Wednesday the design team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Monday and Tuesday saw triages run also in #design.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.

Posts to catch up on

• Block Directory in WP-Admin: V1

If you are having a 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. that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.

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Another week and here is the timely design team update.

Next week will be the last update post until New Year, with the design team agreeing to take a break in meetings from 23rd December 2019 and returning 6th January 2020. This will also include a pause in organised triage sessions over that time.

Meetings and triage

On Wednesday the design team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Monday and Tuesday saw triages run also in #design.

• Post coming about Figma library 5.3 updates.
• Security and triage team profile badges are now done.
• Some are going to start working on a colour system for all profile badges.
• There is a new Gutenberg release.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.
• Proposal: a new color palette for WordPress still needs feedback.

Posts to catch up on

• Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update number 41

If you are having a 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. that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.

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Lots of great things happened this week in the design team.

Meetings and triage

On Wednesday the design team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Monday and Tuesday saw triages run also in #design.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.

Posts to catch up on

• Proposal: a new color palette for WordPress
• Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update : Number 40

If you are having a 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. that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.

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Lots of great conversations, triage and designing happened this week. WC Milano is right now as this is posted having a contribution day and a design table 🖐🏻

This week also saw some iterations on the make/design site. There is a new section for focuses and now you can find the following:

• Block directory.
• Full site editing.

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. also saw some refreshes with a new section calling out topics of interest, for example, design systems.

Meetings and triage

On Wednesday the design team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Monday and Tuesday saw triages run also in #design.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.
• Proposal to add a focus section to the handbook.

Posts this week

• WordCamp Tokyo 2019 – Keep, Burn & Add exercise

If you are having a 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. that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.

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Another week saw more exciting posts and activity in the design team.

Meetings and triage

On Wednesday the design team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Monday and Tuesday saw triages run also in #design.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.
• Proposal for design team Trello board organising

Posts this week

• Blocks, Patterns, and Layouts
• Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #39

If you are having a 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. that has a design contribution table, please reach out in #design so you can be added in future updates.

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The past few weeks designers across WordPress were involved in multiple WordCamps, WC Tokyo and 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. US, to name but two of those. There was also a wide variety of work from 5.3 wrangling to GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ and beyond.

The meeting times are changing with daylight saving in some countries.

• Monday: 17:30 UTC – coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./metaMeta Meta 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. triage
• Tuesday: 17:00 UTC – Gutenberg triage
• Wednesday: 19:00 UTC – Design weekly team meeting

Weekly meeting

The design team held their weekly meeting at 18:00 UTC in #design. You can catch up on all the notes here:

• October 30th notes
• November 6th notes

Triage

The design team continues to have triages each week, one for core/meta and one for Gutenberg.

Calls for involvement

Here are some calls for involvement for the design team:

• Gutenberg continues to need people to give feedback and create designs.
• Proposal: a consistent spacing system for WordPress

Interesting posts

• WordCamp US 2019 fire, forage and treasure exercise

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.

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These updates are moving to weekly, in an adjusted format. If anyone would like to see anything adjusted in these feel free to add a comment.

5.3

A great deal of time these past weeks have been involved in 5.3. Specifically, the design team have been focused on the about page, along with, 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) improvements to color, contrast and media.

GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ design

Each week there is an update about what is going on within Gutenberg. You can view past updates here:

• Update 35
• Update 36

Triage

Design has 2 weekly triages:

• Monday 16:30 UTC coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./metaMeta Meta 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. design triage.
• Tuesday 16:00 UTC Gutenberg design triage.

Weekly meetings

The design team meets every Wednesday. If you want to catch up on the notes you can here:

• October 7th notes.
• October 16th notes.

Proposals

• WP design guide: There is a new style guide project which you can see the proposal for.
• Typography scale: There is a new proposal about adding a typography scale, this will start by happening in components and then move out into the design experiments 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.

Points of note

Here are some extra things that have happened in the past few weeks.

• How to work with WordPress components not has a handbook page.
• New design for Helphub home and category pages.

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