This is a bi-weekly update of work the design group contributed to. Work happens in overview issues, and in needs design, or needs design feedback issues.
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Useful Figma files
Useful Tracking Issues
Design work
Styles Icon Update
Status: Completed
We notice the Global Styles icon had a 1px inner stroke-width, diverging from other ciruclar icons which feature a 1.5px stroke width. While this may have initially been an intentional design choice to emphasize the half-circle, in context of the other icons in that same space, the 1.5px stroke ended up feeling more harmonious. PR.
Editor Comments
Status: In progress/Needs feedback
There’s an ongoing collaboration to explore adding comments to the block editor. Shown here, an interface for adding comments, indication of existing comments, as well as how those comments might be interacted with. You can dive into more detail on the PR.
Managing Allowed Blocks
Status: Need dev | @seifeldinio @joen
Container blocks support an attribute in the markup to limit allowed blocks inside. This issue details adding an interface for this.
Improving Image Placeholders
Status: Needs dev
Images in a placeholder states can be inserted anywhere, including in as narrow contexts as a 60px (or less) wide column. In those states, the title/icon/description/CTAs simply don’t fit. Here’s a design that accommodates those actions based on its context. Issue, related issue.
Refining the rightmost top actions
Status: Needs feedback
New issue to lightly rearrange the most important top toolbar actions, to avoid the Save/Publish button shifting around. Issue.
Reducing bulk action prominence in grid layout
Status: Complete
Grid layout in data views is less well suited to performing bulk actions, so the prominence of checkboxes has been reduced. They now appear on hover, overlaid on the preview.
Migrate data view options to settings form UI
Status: Complete
Data view options are moving to a settings form UI presented in a popover. This is a more flexible solution that provides room for more complex new features, like adjusting grid density or re-ordering fields.