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 agenda here. You can join the Slack channel by following the instructions in our handbook.
Attendees: @estelaris, @ashiquzzaman, @paaljoachim, @hedgefield, @ibdz, @jameskoster, @kellychoffman, @melchoyce, @critterverse, @Nirbhay Singh
Housekeeping
@hedgefield has been working on the handbook expects to add major changes by this week. Requesting everyne to keep an eye on the handbook by the end of the week.
Contributions to the Design Team is always welcomed. Please ping @estelaris or @chaion07 and they will guide you through.
Core Blog Highlights
Announcements
There will be a company-wide test of FSE at Yoast. @hedgefield believes that it will bring in some valuable feedback on some designs.
Project Updates
@ibdz has been working on the Figma library, adding the new colors. He has checked with the ‘source of truth’, made changes, and published the Styles.
- WP-Admin Colors in WordPress 5.7 : Blue, Gray, Red, Yellow, Green
- Gutenberg Colors
- Deprecated previous Light and Dark Gray.
- Rename to correct the folder ‘Gradients’ to ‘Opacity’.
As for the next step, he will inspect and work on the Components.
@ibdz also agreed to post a monthly post on “changes in Figma library”. The design team believes posts like this is going to be useful to all.
@jameskoster Combined all the separate button states into variants which will make it much easier to consume. This makes swapping the button states easier, For example – instead of having four versions of the Primary button, you can have just one and swap the button states via inline class. More variants can be found here. He also believes some refinement needs to be done.
Open Floor
@joyously reminded that there were requests for feedback for the Reusable Blocks interface and for how the Appearance menu should be with Full Site Editing. Because the recent change n Reusable Blocks generated lots of forum topics, the recent changes were all related to the UI change. Because of the UI changes, people are inadvertently deleting Reusable Blocks. He requests to put a process to prevent this from happening in the future. He hopes 5.7.1 will fix everything.
@paaljoachim mentioned that one major issue with Reusable Blocks is that one can not discard a save, find the issue here Bottom line was that when the new Reusable block concept/feature was released.
@critterverse has been doing some work with Reusable Blocks here and @estelaris said, designers are exploring solutions and enhancements.
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