Source: Make WordPress: Design

Recently a lot of “!important” stuff has made it’s way into our CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.. It’s really important that this doesn’t happen 🙂 Proposing a new rule: if somebody wants to add !important in a patch,…

I sent a user through the new page on front flow, as well as a few steps in the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. (including the new color picker). I sort of cheated on…

Here’s a list of todo’s that came out of yesterdays UI chat. #20492 – Let’s make submit_button() (with no arguments) be “Save Changes” and have it default to the larger size. If you pass any arguments at all, we default to the shorter button. #19956 – Need to figure out best way to turn upload…

I sent two additional users through discovery cycle 1 on Friday afternoon. The four initial tests can be found here. User #5 through these scenarios Here’s the video, and my notes: Step two notes – Log in No problems. Step two notes – Explain what you see No problems. Step Three notes – Preview your…

Ticket scrub notes 8/29 Needs patch Customizer accessibility – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21283 Retina theme screenshots – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21388 meta boxes on edit comment – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21499 – Based on Nacin’s comment Current theme path – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17944 Ready to commit Search behavior with filters – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19452 Font size in network admin – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21223 Updated theme activated message – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19787 Thickbox…

Now that we’ve got a couple of rough patches (welcome screen, color picker, “view” my site) it’s time go back and test a few users in our first discovery cycle with these patches applied, and see if we’ve made any progress. Here’s the video, and here are my notes: Step two notes – Log in…

Ticket scrub notes for 8/21 Patches needed Keyboard focus in the theme customizer – This one is super important, and fairly complex. Kill use of colons in class names – We need someone to fix or refactor wp-lists.js Unify s in options-discussion.php – Need to take another stab at a solution for this one. Status…

Note: meeting on 8/7 did not really happen, as many were traveling or otherwise out of commission post-WCSF. Meeting was largely focused on status check of various items and really bearing down on assignments and breaking down tasks into what can be realistically accomplished within a given time period (the next week) so we can…

We did some brainstorming at Dev Day today around improving the Help and Screen Options tabs in the admin. Keep in mind nothing here is a final decision, just some exploration of what we thought would be easy wins to make these tabs more useful. Here are the problems with them right now: Most users…

Logs: https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-ui&day=2012-07-31&sort=asc#m49644 Media wireframes: look at them if you haven’t yet, and leave feedback. Development breakdowns and work will happen in #wordpress-dev when we get there, for the development-minded. WCSF dev day will also be a forum for more discussion for those who are there, and we will be vigilant about sharing those conversations publicly.…