[wp-testers] No-Notice Design Opportunity

[Josiah Robertson]

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On Apr 25, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:

> I'm saying this flat out: this announcement is coming with no  
> notice. There's a post on the dev blog now about an opportunity for  
> community designers to take a stab at making the header/nav of the  
> admin look a little more polished. The idea only came up last night,  
> and with the 2.8 deadline looming, it would have made more sense to  
> just have Matt Thomas (who did the visual styling of 2.7) kick out a  
> revised comp, but we thought it would be cool to let the community  
> submit design suggestions in visual form. We posted a PSD of Matt's,  
> and anyone who would like to propose an approach is welcome to  
> submit a design.
>
> Since it's a small project, we think this is reasonable. Matt Thomas  
> is working on a comp, so if no one wants to jump in and take on the  
> challenge, that's okay. Like I said, the idea just came up... we  
> didn't think we'd have time for this kind of thing until 2.9. In  
> 2.9, there will be some screen design opportunities around the media  
> upload process, and those larger design projects will be announced a  
> week in advance, and have reasonable turnaround times for  
> deliverables. But not this time! We're trying to squeeze this in  
> under the wire. All details are in the post: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-whos-in-an-idea-in-three-acts/
>
> Slightly but not really off topic: I do want to say that I paid  
> close attention to the thread about the has-patch marathon and the  
> two-days' notice not being enough. I started to write a lengthy  
> response, but decided it would be better to turn that energy toward  
> making change, rather than responding point by point to the  
> complaint. I'm going to start working on figuring out how to improve  
> communication between core devs/contributing devs/Automattic, which  
> will include things like the Ideas forum, the lists, the dev  
> channel, support forums, community blogs, etc. I'm gathering my  
> thoughts right now and trying to get 2.8 out of the way, but in the  
> very near future I'll start soliciting feedback around this issue,  
> and even more importantly, soliciting SUGGESTIONS. Complaints may  
> get the issue noticed, but only by working together for an improved  
> system can we solve these issues.
>
> Thanks!
> Jane
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