Monique Dubbelman 6:52 pm on July 17, 2019
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Design meeting notes for July 17, 2019

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesday’s. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

There are no housekeeping topics.

Updates

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Design update

@mapk updates us on what’s been going on with Gutenberg and design:

  • Theres an icon and label pull request that needs some more testing/feedback.
  • BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. patterns are being designed. This could use some feedback around the different patterns being presented.
Patterns API for blocks

A discussion on language for labels follows, and @boemedia suggests testing designs with other languages besides English. As English is usually super short, and designs tend to break when translating into, for instance, German. @karmatosed suggests creating mockups with other languages too.

Another concern that’s raised by @nrqsnchz is, that he wonders how adding labels to the block toolbar is going to look like, since space is limited.

Discussion

Design team TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. Board

The design team used to use the Trello board for task management outside of the focus on Gutenberg and tasks not related to TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets.

@karmatosed raises a few discussion points around it:

  • Do people still want to use it?
  • Should we have a meeting where we go through and decide triage style what to do or close?
  • Is it useful?
  • How can it be more useful but still be approachable for new people without reading a manual?

As some things have changed since the design team used the Trello board in the current setup, Tammie suggests the following:

  • Before next week I can move over resources column to handbook
  • Before next week I will also pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” each ticket to see if owner wants to do anything with it or unasign.
  • Next week we do triage of board : do not go through and see what we want to do or not. Perhaps have a ‘future maybe’ column?
  • Each week we add in a timeboxed 15 minutes of ‘Trello checking’

Once it’s in order we can also open for new ideas.

If you have thoughts about this, please feel free to leave it in the comments section below these notes, or reply on Slack (account required).

Sharing corner

@boemedia feels inspired by the design explorations Andy Clarke does for Smashing Magazine. She also recommends reading the book ‘Art Direction for the Web’ that he wrote for Smashing Magazine.

@davewhitley likes to remind everyone of the component naming audit that happens in the Gutenberg repository . If you’re interested in name changes for the component and how they are composed, please hop onto the issues.

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