The full transcription of this weeks meeting can be found in our Slack channel.
We started off with another bit of information sharing amongst the group — this time focused on the tools we use to design and communicate.
Tool discussion
- What are tools you like to use in designing?
- What are tools you wish could get better?
- How do you like to share the work you’ve done?
This is a summary of the tools that were mentioned in the meeting:
for rough sketching
- paper and pen
- Sketching on the iPad with Linea Sketch or Paper 53.
- annotating or altering screenshots using browser inspect to make changes
for higher fidelity designing
- Sketch
- Figma
- Adobe XD
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign for annotating mockups/wires for clients
- WordPress + page builder + css
- Balsamiq
for prototyping
- InVision or InVision Studio
- Balsamiq for mid level prototyping
- MarvelApp
- Axure
for planning, content and IA
- Excel for content audits
- MindDoodle for mindmapping
- HotJar for heat maps to guide UX design
for collaboration and communication of designs
- screenshots and screen recordings with Droplr
- Zeplin for developer handoffs
- annotated screenshots or PDFs
- Marvel and InVision allow people to place comments on the design
- DropBox Paper for comments and sharing
- ProjectHuddle
- Abstract is kinda like github for designers https://www.goabstract.com/
- Sketch Cloud and Figma allow commenting
Triage Inbox
No new cards this week
Calls for design: follow-ups
juliekuehl brought up Design for learn.wordpress.org
- The Training Team has been making progress on getting lesson plans ready and it would be great to start preparing to publish them.
- Andi is working on wires for lesson plan layouts and re-organizing the homepage examples
- best way to communicate and comment? Maybe Google Drive might work and Google Draw to comment?
boemedia pointed to WordPress logo usage style guide for WordCamps
- it would be great if everyone could share an example of a WordCamp logo we believe does a good job of showing off how a WordCamp logo could be done.
- You can see all the upcoming ones here: https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/
If time allows, follow-up on older cards
Let’s look at a couple Trac tickets
1. Activating a new theme on multisite is very long-winded https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18301. Needs updated screenshot/flow
2. Option to view condensed diffs for post revisions https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42086