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.
Housekeeping
- We can still use more volunteers for note-taking. Along with this, there are opportunities to participate by running triage sessions. This includes both the Core and Gutenberg triage. Please leave a comment below if you’re interested.
- Our meetings have changed a little to be as close to 30 minutes as possible, as an experiment. This won’t stop conversation if it’s flowing. With daylight savings affecting different time-zones, we would like to know your thoughts on the current timing for the meeting. We would love to hear from you if you think that we need to make adjustments. Please leave a comment with your thoughts.
Updates
@estelaris is running an audit on meta tickets to check if there are any that could be resolved by the new WP.org design style guide proposal. Here is a link to the working document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZL2mzJzCjxBt0hPOtRCzvFlgBsTeU90u3bMFNNI0h7s/edit
@noah has been continuing to work on global styles considerations including present and future explorations, and have been in the process of reining it back into what we can incrementally do from this point on. Also have a plan on an open, casual jam session (via Zoom) this Friday around 13:00 UTC.
@paaljoachim is working on New design for revisions panel here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/25270 and also made a link control suggestion here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/24021#issuecomment-691917035
@michael-arestad is designing a block directory page. Essentially a plugins directory focused on blocks and block patterns. Ideally, he’d like to show the block or block pattern itself, but technical challenges aside, it is complex for other design reasons as blocks can do all sorts of things.
@karmatosed has mostly been focused on WP 5.6 and catching all the awesome little tickets for design. Also she’s been working on some designs for options in Gutenberg which is yet to be posted.
Discussion
@paaljoachim suggested having an hour long triage session at least once a month. He has held a bunch of triage sessions and feels that having the one hour Gutenberg triage session once a week has in general worked pretty well. @estelaris suggested about doing them randomly like the Zoom sessions. @karmatosed pointed out that there are a few problems with a burden of setting up another meeting just with one person doing. It holds to a time and place. If you perhaps see it as an occasional opportunity not something you have to do each week, which may give a better opportunity. She also added by saying, anyone can spin up a Zoom or ask a team rep to set up one. @estelaris emphasized on the fact that it would be a good idea to announce it in the #design channel some time before each session. Can work the day before or few hours before, so people are aware because we have visitors at random hours.
Open Floor
@karmatosed brought the topic of ‘Learn WordPress’ initiative and if any working session leads to a workshop then we can definitely take advantage of the crossover opportunity provided by the #training team. Here is the p2 post: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/12/learn-wordpress-is-live/ and the official site: https://learn.wordpress.org/ This can definitely be a good way to turn casual things into resources.
@estelaris also introduced @manzwebdesigns who recently joined the team and asked if anyone was willing to mentor him for a bit to which @paaljoachim gladly accepted.