Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
WordPress.org redesign
Last week, new designs were shared for the Homepage and Download pages — two of the most high-traffic pages on the WordPress.org site. Props to @beafialho and @javiarce for the beautiful design work.
Design Library
Clean up of all the icons of the Design Library is ongoing, with flattening the icons being a first step to fix the color overrides of the library. The instructions have also been updated to indicate what’s the preferred internal structure. @javiarce started testing the new functionalities that Figma introduced recently, which will allow us to simplify the components and make them easier to use.
Openverse header
@fcoveram has been iterating on the Openverse header component, taking a new approach to simplify the navigation and content interaction.
WordPress Jobs
@javiarce created a header and avatar for the WordPress Jobs Twitter account.
The next default theme
There’s also a proposal on the Make Design blog for a new approach to the annual default theme. What if, instead of emphasizing the theme itself, we highlighted an opinionated set of style variations designed by members of the community? The idea is to use Twenty Twenty-Two as the basis for a new theme that’s stripped back and minimal — a blank canvas to let a diverse range of style variations shine.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress Slack or message @critterverse.