Source: Make WordPress: Design

We’re working on HiDPI (“Retina”) support for WordPress. Of course, most people don’t have a Retina MacBook Pro at their disposal. So here’s how OS X-using WordPress developers can do HiDPI development without dropping $3,000 US on a laptop. What you need OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion A monitor, with a resolution of at least…

Over the past week or so, I’ve worked closely with @lessbloat (Dave), @nacin, and @markjaquith to create a set of media workflows that will hopefully serve as a foundation and guide for the improvements in this release. (This is the fifth version of these wireframes — you can see the first four on Dave’s site.)…

There are a number of recent tickets about 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)…

I’d like to get the ball rolling on the new welcome screen redesign for 3.5. I started playing around with a few ideas and I’d love to hear your thoughts: My hope for this screen is that it will serve as a proper “home” that users can come back to again and again to find…

The current goal is to HiDPI/2x current assets, whether that’s through making new versions of various images/icons or converting to CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. solutions (pretty much gradients and perhaps comment bubbles). Longer-term we may end up…

Most links and buttons in the admin don’t have clear :focus and :active styling. This is a big problem when using the Tab key to navigate. There is usually no indication of what element is focused and if there is some, like on the admin menu, it’s quite weak/unnoticeable. Thinking we should add clear and…

Heads up: I’m taking a leave of absence! See the post on wpdevel make/core for details.

One of the goals for 3.5 is to redesign and improve the workflows for uploading and selecting media in WordPress. Over the next week or so, we’ll be working to flesh out exactly what this will entail from both a technical and design perspective. Scope To ensure we stay on track, our focus and top…

The coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team recently began holding daily office hours in IRC (in the form of bug scrubs). I would like to extend them to the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page…

Since 3.5 hasn’t officially started yet, I thought I’d play around with a quick proof of concept for the “Spotlight” search functionality this morning. Here’s what I’ve got so far: There are still heaps of rough spots. Here’s the plugin if you’re interested in taking it for a spin: http://cl.ly/0E3G2Y1J33372C3f3W3Q Let me know if you…