Source: Make WordPress: Design

In reviewing the first 6 user tests, one thing really stands out to me (it’s a glaring problem in each of the tests). Can you guess what it is? It might not be what you’d expect… #user-testing

Scope meeting in #wordpress-dev tomorrow, July 11, at 20:00 UTC is an official go. Not being a developer-type doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be there, even if you just lurk. Discussion will be had about scheduling and planning features. See you there! http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/version-3-5-scope-session-on-wednesday-july-11/

Round 3 of the “WP as a CMS” cycle is ready for your viewing enjoyment. 🙂 Previous user tests for this discovery cycle can be found here and here. This one’s audio is a bit fuzzy at times. I changed up a few of the tasks to be a bit more clear on what I…

Here’s round 2 of the “WordPress as a CMS” user test. You can view round one here. As much as I love spending 2+ hours making notes on each user test video, I’m going to try a different approach with this one. As you watch this one, please make a note in the comments if…

We’re in the middle of testing some users through a few “WordPress as a CMS” scenarios. One of the items that really stands out as needing some attention is the static front pageStatic Front Page A WordPress website can have a dynamic blog-like front page, or a “static front page” which is used to show…

For those of you building websites with WordPress, I’d love to learn about how you’d approach a simple 10 page static site design (start to finish). The more details you can provide, the better (what plugins you add, what settings you change, and in what order you typically do everything). Feel free to pingPing The…

I asked Otto to get me a DB dump of the WP.org Support ForumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. titles for the past 60 days…

As much as I like staying on task, and getting stuff done, sometimes I just need a creative break. We’ve been doing a bunch of planning this week to get ready for 3.5 (which is looking awesome). But, I decided to set aside some time this afternoon to fiddle with a feature of my choosing…

Let’s talk about tagging posts here on the 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 are doing. P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog.…

Here’s the start of another discovery cycle (#2). This one is focused around WordPress as a CMS (using it to build a website vs. for a blog). I’ll need to make some edits to this script before I run any other users through it. You can download the video and follow along if you’d like…