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
We are still looking for note takers and volunteers to facilitate triage sessions. @chaion07 volunteered as note taker.
Updates
@mapk introduced the May focus for Gutenberg.
- FSE
- Global styles
- Navigation-menu screen
- and other refinements
- PRs that have PRs ready for testing. If you would like to try out the new Gutenberg enhancements, you can do it with gutenberg.run in GitHub
Design updates for Gutenberg
- FSE Site Builder screen is getting closer in terms of parity with the post editor, there’s still some work left
- Posted a prototype of a page switcher when editing site – could use some feedback
- Iteration on template partial creation – needs dev
- Proposed persistent block navigator
- Search block enhancements.
- Block mover explorations.
- continued work on iterations to the Welcome Guide.
- Navigation block iterations too!
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/22096
Contributors Day at WCEU
There was a call for tasks that we could work on during contributors day. We have a comment from @mapk about Figma components but we would like to have more. Another task could be about colors/input styling consistency in Gutenberg. Please add to the post above.
Open Floor
Ste Dobrescu, a new contributor asked for advice on some work he is doing regarding CSS for the admin are in WordPress. The team provided some feedback and recommended he joined the #core-css channel where he can find more help.
@netpassprodsr introduced the idea of mentorship as a role for the design team. @karmatosed asked if anyone in the team is willing to write a proposal for the design team.