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Thanks everyone for coming to the very first meeting about image editing. It’s excited to have a group of people ready to tackle this! The video of the meeting is here. Here’s what we discussed: Name: Our name is “Image Flow” Scope: The scope of the project is to look at how we can improve…

We’re having the first meeting of the image editing group tomorrow: . Below is the agenda: 1. General Introductions 2. Discussion of project scope (and name) (also, talking about the feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins process)…

I was meeting with @siobhan last week to work on creating initial personas for Image Editing in WordPress. We came up with 6 main personas with different skill levels, goals and frustrations (for details see link below): Novice Blogger Experienced Blogger Photoblogger Mobile Photoblogger Multi-author Blog Editor Tutorial Writer We’ve put together a Google Doc for…

We’re going to kick off weekly meetings for image editing next week. They’ll be at 18:00 UTC Friday, starting Friday 18th July. That’s: 20:00 Amsterdam 19:00 London 14:00 East Coast US 12:00 Mountain Time 11:00 Pacific It’s after the media component meeting. We’re going to experiment with using Google Hangouts instead of IRC for the…

Image editing in WordPress isn’t fun. It’s possible, but it isn’t fun. Bringing image editing into the media modal was pretty awesome. Now people can edit images from the modal (yay!) but they also realise how frustrating that image editing experience is (boo 🙁 ). WordPress is not an image editing platform, but we do…

We are taking a look at plugin discovery workflows in 4.0. To that end, we’re looking for screenshots of various web store experiences to study as comparable art, particularly in terms of how users are enabled to determine and look for what they might need/want, and what data is shown for users to use in…

Following up on our recent series of user interviews on current media behaviors, as well as our discussions in IRC, here are a set of revised comps for the Media Grid concept which incorporates that feedback, and establishes parity with the current Media Library list view. So how does this differ from our approach to…

Hi everyone! There haven’t been any meetings for the front-end editor in a while, and since I’m working on the GSoC project right now I won’t actively hold any meetings until that’s finished. If anyone would like discuss something or work on the project though, feel free to continue them. Most of the time I’ll…

To get a better understanding of the kinds of tasks users perform in the current Media Library (and related Add Media page) before working on refinements to the Media Grid project, we interviewed 8 users on their current habits, tasks, pain points, and a little about what they would like to see. TL;DR: Grid is…

Hi! It’s been a few weeks since we added our initial brief. What is it? Press This is a redesign with a focus on automation and speed.     Progress We now have an alpha public release available for testing. We plan on pushing nightly soon. Beware: there be dragons. Design elements are starting to fall in…