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Documenting a focus
Preparing To start let’s look at some examples which could fall into ‘Focus’: A11yAccessibility 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…
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Current Focuses
A focus is a project that normally takes more time and likely includes multiple people and/or teams. Currently, focuses for design revolve around release roadmap posts and their subsequent projects, alongside scoping out Phase 3 efforts. Design Priorities Projects There are a range of project boards you can use to look at priorities in the…
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Design meeting agenda for Wednesday 20th November
This is the agenda for the weekly design chat meeting on Wednesday, 20th November 2019, 19:00 UTC. Housekeeping TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. and Handbook organisation update Call for WordCamps Proposal to create a…
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Proposal to add a focus section to the handbook
During our weekly meeting adding a section to the handbook to show what focusing on was proposed. Beyond keeping track for existing contributors, there is a great deal of history we lose and hard to find context for those starting to join this team. This new section would: Serve as a place to know what…
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WordCamp Tokyo 2019 – Keep, Burn & Add exercise
At WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Tokyo 2019 we followed last year’s exercise from WCUS and ran a Keep / Burn /…
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Proposal for design team Trello board organising
As a team, design uses a Trello board for organising tasks outside GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’…
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Blocks, Patterns, and Layouts
GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ is diving deep into customization leading into 2020. With customization, and eventual full site…
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Design meeting notes 13 Nov 2019
These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesday’s. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel by following…
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Design meeting agenda for Wednesday 13th November
This is the agenda for the weekly design chat meeting on Wednesday, 13th November 2019, 19:00 UTC. Housekeeping TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board organising suggestion Handbook organising suggestion Updates from any specific focuses…
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Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #39
It’s Friday!! I hope everyone who made the trek to WCUS or WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Tokyo this year made it…