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 Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.
@karmatosed started off with the announcement that @estelaris has been chosen as a new team rep for the design team! Congratulations! She will take on such responsibilities as facilitating team meetings, managing our task inbox and triage, and keeping everyone up-to-date on what’s happening in WordPress design.
Next, @mapk updates us on Gutenberg. WordPress 5.4 dropped recently which includes a bunch of neat Gutenberg improvements:
- Default fullscreen mode.
- New blocks: Social links block, Buttons block.
- Inline text color change.
- Gradients for Cover block and Buttons block.
- Latest Posts now has featured images.
- Color options on Group and Columns blocks.
- Block breadcrumbs.
- MOBILE: Toolbar stays on top.
- Easier image sizing in Gallery.
- Table block captions.
The focus for Gutenberg development in April was posted and includes:
- Full Site Editing: Continue improving the Edit Site screen and blocks
- Global Styles: This will be a big one this month (support in blocks and UI)
- Updated Inserter UI to support patterns and blocks
- Updated Navigation/Menus screen
- Continue G2 iterations
Then, @ibdz chimes in with an update on the Figma documentation for the Handbook. This is intended for new contributors to understand our process of designing in Figma. If you have experience with Figma, please leave your feedback in this doc. We will review next week and then put it in the Handbook.
Next, @audrasjb asked us to review the design of the automatic updates feature plugin, in order to get it ready for a merge proposal. More information can be read in this Make post.
Finally, @ibdz spots a tiny bug in the Handbook and @paaljoachim links to a small change to the block toolbar for review.