2010 OPEN SOURCE DESIGN PLANS

2010 is a year we dive in to open source design. We’ve dipped a toes in this pool prior to (icon contest, striking pattern member for Trac tickets, header modernise contest, etc.), though this year we’re starting to cannonball as good as have a large splash. Here’s what we need to know if we wish to get involved.

A list for all seasons. Developers have a wp-hackers mailing list to plead core as good as plugin code. Sometimes UI/UX things comes up as good as gets discussed there, though there is a total star of contention around navigation labels, gradients, symbol styling, layouts, alignment, etc. which would be confusion on wp-hackers. Designers need a list to call their own, as good as right away we have one. You can pointer up for a wp-ui list to plead ways to urge a interface or user knowledge of WordPress, as good as to plead swell on design-related projects for a open source project, similar to a pattern hurdles we’re starting to have.

Design Challenges. We schooled a lot from a idol pattern as good as header modernise contests, as good as we wish to do these kind of open pattern hurdles on a unchanging basement to give UI/UX designers who wish to minister to a WordPress open source plan some-more opportunities to do so. If we could do a single per month, which would be ideal, gripping a hurdles comparatively bite-sized to concede intensity contributors an easy approach to get concerned at first. As any plea is posted, people can have use of a list to rebound ideas off any alternative as good as work toward optimal solutions. I’m anticipating a pattern hurdles will develop to be reduction competition as good as some-more collaboration. We’ll have known a initial a single prior to a finish of January, so if you’re interested, greatfully pointer up for a list! (Hint: a single will expected be a hold up to a Right Now dashboard module, to urge a report design, as good as there will be a integrate of shade blueprint hurdles entrance up as well.)

Distributed Usability Testing. We proposed to try this out final year, as good as multiform dozen usability professionals volunteered to assistance get a module going, though a multiple of scheduling as good as infrastructure issues total to case a progress. Having a “UI/UX writer team” infrastructure in place, starting with a mailing list, will have it most simpler to get this plan starting again.

Chit-chat. The weekly developer chats in IRC at #wordpress-dev have been really productive. We’ve combined an IRC room at #wordpress-ui on irc.freenode.com so which we can have a same kind of “water cooler” for UI/UX contributors as for core formula contributors. In further to being a place where we can dump in as good as plead core UI/UX (note: this room will not be a place to plead a pattern of blog themes, it’s to plead a pattern of a Wordpress focus itself), we’ll set up a weekly chat. Choosing a day as good as time for a chats will substantially be a initial contention on a mailing list.

A blog of a own. Once again, receiving a page from a formula writer infrastructure, we’ll set up a blog for UI/UX updates, announcements, swell reports, etc. This will be on WordPress.org in a nearish future, as good as will be voiced to a mailing list when it is live.

So, if we wish to turn a writer to core WordPress by regulating your pattern skills, join a wp-ui mailing list as good as get ready for a fun year!

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2010 Open Source Design Plans