These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. 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 the instructions in our handbook.
Housekeeping
We are looking for a volunteer to help with note-taking during meetings. Anyone interested, either leave a comment here or let us know in the Slack channel.
Updates
@michael-arestad brings us an update on 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/ design work:
WordPress 5.5 was released! Nice work on the About page design and props to everyone involved in the release! Design updates:
- @shaunandrews posted updated designs for the list view
- @annezazu just published a post on WordPress 5.5 Editor Accessibility Improvements
- @mapk has been iterating on new icons for post blocks and is working on the accordion blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.
- @q has been working on
@wordpress/componentsand working to improve them. You should follow progress at https://g2components.wordpress.com/ - @noah is focused on Global styles now that an iteration of Multi-Entity Saving is being developed
- I posted a design update to creating a template from scratch.
If you are new to the design team, go ahead and click on those links, check out the great work the design team is doing in the block editor.
Open floor
@nrqsnchz brought up PR 16053 for Gutenberg work on autosave post versions. Please leave your comments on that PR