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.
Updates
The updated navigation screen was merged https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28675 with more iteration happening in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28864 and https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28863.
Feedback was requested on these issues by @paaljoachim:
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28923
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28915
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28920
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28813
WP Notify
Initial designs have been made, but there’s some trouble getting started on a prototype. To get things going again, the team has compiled the latest information on requirements, use cases, MVP scope plus the latest designs on a wiki https://github.com/WordPress/wp-notify/wiki.
This is preparation for doing a call for help in the core chat soon. Hopefully that will bring in some more interest and this can get rolling! If you’re interested in forming an opinion on the designs already, the links to the github issues for discussion are on the designs page https://github.com/WordPress/wp-notify/wiki/Project-designs-(v1). We have enough to get started, but we can always keep refining.
WC India
WC India 2021 had their first ever virtual Contributor Day. Ahmed Chaion was their facilitating the design table. We had many people coming up to visit. We also had discussions on WordPress and how design contributes to it. We’ve had quite a few new contributors also joining the channel with the help of the onboarding videos playlist created by the marketing team.
Discussion
@estelaris proposed to replace the # anchor with the link anchor, but it doesn’t look like a “link”. For reference, it is the last item on this post https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2021/02/01/requirements-for-a-new-design-for-the-article-pages-in-user-documentation/
Other link icons were discussed. The icon in the editor is used to link/unlink text. The icon suggested for the support site is used to copy/visit a URL. We looked at Material icons, but we want to keep the style between editor and meta unified. It was suggested to add an anchor icon. @estelaris will work on a proposal.
Open floor
@ashiquzzaman asked whether there is a central icon font in Gutenberg. In fact work on that is underway at
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/icons
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/packages/icons
- https://www.figma.com/file/e4tLacmlPuZV47l7901FEs/WordPress-Design-Library?node-id=5415%3A21381
New submissions are welcome!