Source: Make WordPress: Design

Sorry guys, I’d meant to get this out earlier. Here’s last week’s meeting log. Chat notes Chatted a bit about embeds WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. currently supports, and how we can start grouping similar content types together Decided on including a…

Heya! It’s been again over a month since the last MP6 release and this version comes with some new goodness. General As usual, we made some 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…

Progress is slow but steady in dashboard 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…

Back at the first 3.8 chat, I mentioned wanting to see a grid layout for the media library. I threw together a few wireframes and wrote out my thoughts. This is still listed as a “feature as a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added…

Team Widgets3 held it’s second meeting this past Monday (Aug 26) in #wordpress-ui. Feel free to check out the IRC logs. Spurred by the results of our initial survey results, we discussed the benefits and failings of drag-and-drop. The consensus seems to be that drag-and-drop works well for re-ordering existing widgets, but its less than…

Last week I introduced the idea of working to improve the default dashboard screen in the WordPress admin. Project leads I will be leading this project, and I’m excited to announce that @joen will be co-leading with me. Meeting time We’ll hold our first chat tomorrow at in #wordpress-ui. Please come if you’re interested in…

We kicked off CEUX with our first meeting this past Tuesday, August 20th. Couldn’t make it? Check out the IRC logs. Some meeting notes: We elected a team lead (me) We defined the objective of this project, which is improving the user experience around adding content to posts and pages. Next, we chatted about scope, and…

Overview The dashboard screen (the page with QuickPress, and Right Now stats) hasn’t been touched in ages. It’s all a bit cluttered, and based on my limited research it does a poor job of brining value to the majority of users. I’d like to explore some fresh ideas for ways to make the dashboard not…

We had our first meeting on Monday. If you were unable to attend, please check out the IRC logs. Here’s a few key points from the chat: RichardTape will do some data analysis on the 177 responses we received to our initial survey. (He’s finished: http://richardtape.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/results-from-widget-survey-2013/) shaunandrews ran a user test with the simple task…

Team THX38 had its first formal meeting yesterday. See logs. We talked about the things we see as more problematic, and spent some time discussing Filters/Search, as we identified that as an area with huge room for improvement. If you have read Dave’s post on design processes, this in area where we would benefit from…