Source: Make WordPress: Design

The core team meetup is over, and the 3.4 cycle will begin in earnest around the third week of January. Official hiatus until after New Year’s! Resume meetings etc then. Project: update http://dotorgstyleguide.wordpress.com/ to reflect any changes since 3.3 and add more sections. Who’s in? #styleguide

We’ve gradually been updating 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.. First the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or…

The current hover states for the Admin flyouts are still not quite there. Here’s what we’d like to improve about them: We’d like both the hover state on first level items and second level items to be more contrasted. They are currently a pale grey gradient and light blue (See screenshot above). The blue fade…

As you know part of the scope for 3.3 was a revised admin bar that would reduce duplication in the admin headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of…

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17739 Need a better label for email field in default theme comment form so it doesn’t sound like it’s promising peace, justice, and respect for email address privacy by blog author/owner. #comments, #labels, #trac

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18301 Goal of this ticket is to make it faster and easier to activate themes in multisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was…

The responsive admin stuff has been the main focus this cycle, but there are a number of UI things that need to get done before freeze that don’t require coding. So any designers who’ve wanted to help out this cycle but felt intimidated by the focus on CSS, now’s your chance to mock up to…

Resurrecting these! This chat normally takes place on Tuesdays, but was postponed due to some storm difficulties. Reminder: Freeze is in two weeks. Responsive admin is our highest priority right now. Responsive Admin – #18198 Discussed some webkit bugs when styling the admin. @saracannon is looking onto resolving. Newcomers hhsandi and sabreuse will be looking into styling…

This week’s chat has been rescheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday) September 7 at 18:00 UTC (11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern) due to storm difficulties. #reschedule

In our IRC discussion today we talked about the responsive admin implementation for this release. We’re going to first focus on large-screen implementation, and then if we have time before freeze, work on small screen/mobile. We need to start comps for the large-screen implementation and post on this thread for discussion. This comping-period needs to…