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 Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.
Housekeeping
During the month of August, both triages (core and Gutenberg) will be short, for 30 mins only. We will resume our normal, one hour long triage session on 1 Sept. Also, if anyone would like to volunteer to take notes or lead a triage session, please lleave a comment or reach out to @mapk (for Gutenberg triage) or @estelaris for core triage.
Updates
@michael-arestad brings us an update on Gutenberg design work:
Gutenberg 8.7 was released today! And here is the plan for Gutenberg in August.
- @q has been working on an experimental interface library for the editor. Definitely check it out.
- An iteration of multi-entity saving by @noahrshrader is ready to build.
- @mapk has been working on the accordion block. It’s also ready for development.
- Both @mapk and @Jon Øvrebø Dubielzyk have been working on ideas for a type of browse mode.
- @shaunandrews is cranking out new mocks based on feedback for the List View.
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.
Calls for Help/Feedback
The Training team sent us a call for help on designing the new learn.wordpress.org. @melchoyce has agreed to help them out.
Main topics
The WCUS team has reached out to ask if the design team is interested in participating on a 24hrs contribution day. There are no details yet, they are asking around to find out how many teams would be interested.
The Theme team has also been interested in participating and would love it if we could team up and work through some designs for long outstanding tickets they have been wanting to get through.
So we can say there is interest in this, and we’ll keep bringing this up in the next few meetings to get more input. If you have thoughts about this, please leave a comment.
Open floor
@mapk was wondering how we might get more people working on Gutenberg issues. What can we do to share more current work, and request feedback or even use some time to help community designers jump into specific Gutenberg tasks? The triage sessions have been wonderful, but those tend to focus on older issues, and the Gutenberg updates don’t really spawn much activity.
The idea of a design mentorship or dedicated Gutenberg sessions during our design meetings was floated. What do you think? What would you need to start contributing (more) to the visual development of the block editor? Let us know in the comments.
Lastly, @aristath brought up the point that the font size on .org is too small. This is a point that has been raised by accessibility experts before in regards to the WP interface too. There has been work done to see if we can increase the size, but WordPress is a massive project, and not every area fully adheres to the style guidelines – insofar as those exist. We have guidelines for core, but not for meta. @estelaris will take charge on writing a draft for those and bring them to the a11y and meta team, and to us, next week in the design meeting.