[wp-ui] wp-ui Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2

[Roshan]

My name is Roshan, a front-end designer from India.
i do XHTML, CSS based designs and also familiar with Wordpress Theme
and a bit of PHP and jQuery.  I have a website where i release css
templates - www.ramblingsoul.com

My primary interest is in design and if it is something useful here, I
would like to get involved.


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>   1. First steps (Jane Wells)
>   2. Re: First steps (Michael Soriano)
>   3. Re: First steps (Jane Wells)
>   4. Re: First steps (Chris Garrett)
>   5. Re: First steps (Mark Kellie)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:10:23 -0500
> From: Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com>
> Subject: [wp-ui] First steps
> To: wp-ui at lists.automattic.com
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> Hi everyone. Almost 300 people have signed up for this list, which was
> way more than I expected. I'm not sure how many of you are people who
> actually want to get involved and contribute to the UI/UX work that
> goes into making WordPress, vs. how many are developers or users who
> just want to keep up with what's going on or offer feedback on other
> people's design work, so I think the first thing this list should do
> is help everyone get to know who's here. Lurkers need not do this, but
> if you're planning to contribute to the UI work ahead, please email
> this list and tell us a little bit about you: Your work background/
> current job, specific design/usability/accessibility skills/talents
> that we should know about/make use of, what you hope to contribute to
> WP UI, your location/time zone, and maybe the one UI thing you would
> like to address in WP if given the chance. My main goal here is to
> find out how many people of all the subscribers are actually people
> who can wireframe, make comps, run usability testing, etc, vs. simply
> wanting to weigh in with opinions on the work of others (which can
> happen on Trac tickets). This list is meant to be a working group.
>
> After people have had a day or two to introduce themselves, we'll have
> a better idea of how many people are actually planning to participate
> in this list for now, and can plan accordingly. I've got a list as
> long as my arm of potential design projects we can divvy up into
> groups, so knowing people's backgrounds and interests will help
> determine which projects we hit first. We can also then decide on a
> day/time for a weekly UI chat in IRC.
>
> I'm in the process of setting up a site for this group to use a la
> wpdevel.wordpress.com, and will start adding people as authors once we
> have created teams and begun working on projects and there are things
> to report. I'll need to know your wordpress.org login name to add you
> to the site. Usability people are welcome and encouraged to speak up
> also, not just designers. Getting the plan up and running for
> distributed testing is on the goals list, too.
>
> I guess I'll start. I'm Jane, and am the main UX person for WordPress.
> I led the admin redesign of 2.7, and work closely with the core team
> on UI changes. We never have time to get to everything, so there's
> still a ton left to do. I work for Automattic, which donates a big
> chunk of my time to the open source project. Before this job, I'd
> worked at agencies, companies and research groups in almost every
> front-end web job there is over the last 10 years. Though mostly UX
> stuff, I've also done project management, content development, HTML,
> visual design, testing, etc. Right now I'm a bottleneck for UI changes
> in WordPress, and anyone who works in this industry knows that it
> takes a lot longer to create a wireframe deck than it does to sketch
> an idea, so I'm hoping to grow this group into a healthy contributor
> community so that I can step back into more of a advisory/curatorial
> role rather than slowing things down while I draft wireframes or
> conduct individual testing sessions. I'm on the east coast, and would
> love it if the weekly chat could be during the day sometime before
> 3pm, but if the majority needs to have an evening meeting instead, I
> can work with that. I traditionally do wireframes in Omnigraffle, but
> would like to find a good open source tool (the ones I've tried
> haven't been great) that we can all use for this if possible. I
> generally go for Photoshop for comps, and have not found GIMP to be an
> adequate substitute, though I'd love to move visual design to open
> source tools as well. Suggestions are welcome.
>
> I'll be happy to answer questions, point to resources etc for those
> who want to get involved. However, this is not the right place (yet,
> anyway) to come if you are just getting started and want to learn the
> design/UX trade as a new career move or something. I'd like to start
> off with more experienced UI/UX people just to get some processes
> nailed down. I hope that in the future the WP UI group will be an
> awesome place to come to learn new skills.
>
> Who's next?
> Jane
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:25:37 -0800
> From: Michael Soriano <mks6804 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First steps
> To: Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com>
> Cc: wp-ui at lists.automattic.com
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>
> Hello Jane / Everybody,
>
> My name is Michael Soriano - Im a front end web developer and blogger. I'm
> not sure how much I can contribute to redesigning the world's most popular
> blogging platform - but I am very anxious to give it a shot. Note that I
> think the existing admin is very well thought off, organized and well
> crafted as it is already - but if we can make it better, why not.
>
> I specialize in CSS, some jQuery and mild PHP. My personal blog is
> http://fearlessflyer.com where I give away free wordpress themes.
>
> Michael Soriano
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone. Almost 300 people have signed up for this list, which was way
>> more than I expected. I'm not sure how many of you are people who actually
>> want to get involved and contribute to the UI/UX work that goes into making
>> WordPress, vs. how many are developers or users who just want to keep up
>> with what's going on or offer feedback on other people's design work, so I
>> think the first thing this list should do is help everyone get to know who's
>> here. Lurkers need not do this, but if you're planning to contribute to the
>> UI work ahead, please email this list and tell us a little bit about you:
>> Your work background/current job, specific design/usability/accessibility
>> skills/talents that we should know about/make use of, what you hope to
>> contribute to WP UI, your location/time zone, and maybe the one UI thing you
>> would like to address in WP if given the chance. My main goal here is to
>> find out how many people of all the subscribers are actually people who can
>> wireframe, make comps, run usability testing, etc, vs. simply wanting to
>> weigh in with opinions on the work of others (which can happen on Trac
>> tickets). This list is meant to be a working group.
>>
>> After people have had a day or two to introduce themselves, we'll have a
>> better idea of how many people are actually planning to participate in this
>> list for now, and can plan accordingly. I've got a list as long as my arm of
>> potential design projects we can divvy up into groups, so knowing people's
>> backgrounds and interests will help determine which projects we hit first.
>> We can also then decide on a day/time for a weekly UI chat in IRC.
>>
>> I'm in the process of setting up a site for this group to use a la
>> wpdevel.wordpress.com, and will start adding people as authors once we
>> have created teams and begun working on projects and there are things to
>> report. I'll need to know your wordpress.org login name to add you to the
>> site. Usability people are welcome and encouraged to speak up also, not just
>> designers. Getting the plan up and running for distributed testing is on the
>> goals list, too.
>>
>> I guess I'll start. I'm Jane, and am the main UX person for WordPress. I
>> led the admin redesign of 2.7, and work closely with the core team on UI
>> changes. We never have time to get to everything, so there's still a ton
>> left to do. I work for Automattic, which donates a big chunk of my time to
>> the open source project. Before this job, I'd worked at agencies, companies
>> and research groups in almost every front-end web job there is over the last
>> 10 years. Though mostly UX stuff, I've also done project management, content
>> development, HTML, visual design, testing, etc. Right now I'm a bottleneck
>> for UI changes in WordPress, and anyone who works in this industry knows
>> that it takes a lot longer to create a wireframe deck than it does to sketch
>> an idea, so I'm hoping to grow this group into a healthy contributor
>> community so that I can step back into more of a advisory/curatorial role
>> rather than slowing things down while I draft wireframes or conduct
>> individual testing sessions. I'm on the east coast, and would love it if the
>> weekly chat could be during the day sometime before 3pm, but if the majority
>> needs to have an evening meeting instead, I can work with that. I
>> traditionally do wireframes in Omnigraffle, but would like to find a good
>> open source tool (the ones I've tried haven't been great) that we can all
>> use for this if possible. I generally go for Photoshop for comps, and have
>> not found GIMP to be an adequate substitute, though I'd love to move visual
>> design to open source tools as well. Suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> I'll be happy to answer questions, point to resources etc for those who
>> want to get involved. However, this is not the right place (yet, anyway) to
>> come if you are just getting started and want to learn the design/UX trade
>> as a new career move or something. I'd like to start off with more
>> experienced UI/UX people just to get some processes nailed down. I hope that
>> in the future the WP UI group will be an awesome place to come to learn new
>> skills.
>>
>> Who's next?
>> Jane
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:29:29 -0500
> From: Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First steps
> To: Michael Soriano <mks6804 at gmail.com>
> Cc: wp-ui at lists.automattic.com
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> On Jan 19, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Michael Soriano wrote:
>
>> My name is Michael Soriano - Im a front end web developer and
>> blogger. I'm not sure how much I can contribute to redesigning the
>> world's most popular blogging platform - but I am very anxious to
>> give it a shot.
>
> Before anyone takes this statement and runs with it: we're not
> redesigning WordPress. We're just going to be touching up some of the
> screens that haven't been properly finished yet. The general layout
> and navigational structure is not up for redesign.
> j
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:45:20 +0000
> From: Chris Garrett <chris at abstraktion.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First steps
> To: Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com>
> Cc: wp-ui at lists.automattic.com
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> In honesty Jane, that's a bit disappointing. There are quite a few areas of
> the WP UI that would benefit from a drastic rethink and I'd imagine many
> people on the list would be more than happy to take up that challenge,
> myself included, is there any real reason why we're being restricted to
> simply "touching up" the areas which aren't yet properly finished?
>
> I'd imagine, given a little freedom, we'd probably see some enhancements to
> the general user-experience and aesthetic of Wordpress, that reflect
> everyones needs a lot more than it does at the moment.
>
> 2010/1/19 Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com>
>
>>
>> On Jan 19, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Michael Soriano wrote:
>>
>>  My name is Michael Soriano - Im a front end web developer and blogger. I'm
>>> not sure how much I can contribute to redesigning the world's most popular
>>> blogging platform - but I am very anxious to give it a shot.
>>>
>>
>> Before anyone takes this statement and runs with it: we're not redesigning
>> WordPress. We're just going to be touching up some of the screens that
>> haven't been properly finished yet. The general layout and navigational
>> structure is not up for redesign.
>>
>> j
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:51:13 +0000
> From: Mark Kellie <Mark.Kellie at igindex.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First steps
> To: "'Jane Wells'" <jane at automattic.com>, "wp-ui at lists.automattic.com"
>        <wp-ui at lists.automattic.com>
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> Hi Jane,
>
> My name is Mark Kellie
>
> I'm an interface designer and work for a financial spread betting company. I design user interfaces for websites, dealing platforms, online banners, microsites etc.
>
> My main skill is design and secondly solving user journey problems.
>
> Would be happy to help develop these parts of wordpress that haven't had much attention. I don't have a million hours to dedicate but would definitely be keen to be part of the team and I'm sure I'll be able to contribute.
>
> Based in London UK.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-ui-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-ui-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Jane Wells
> Sent: 19 January 2010 17:10
> To: wp-ui at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-ui] First steps
>
> Hi everyone. Almost 300 people have signed up for this list, which was way more than I expected. I'm not sure how many of you are people who actually want to get involved and contribute to the UI/UX work that goes into making WordPress, vs. how many are developers or users who just want to keep up with what's going on or offer feedback on other people's design work, so I think the first thing this list should do is help everyone get to know who's here. Lurkers need not do this, but if you're planning to contribute to the UI work ahead, please email this list and tell us a little bit about you: Your work background/ current job, specific design/usability/accessibility skills/talents that we should know about/make use of, what you hope to contribute to WP UI, your location/time zone, and maybe the one UI thing you would like to address in WP if given the chance. My main goal here is to find out how many people of all the subscribers are actually people who can wireframe, make c
>  omps, run usability testing, etc, vs. simply wanting to weigh in with opinions on the work of others (which can happen on Trac tickets). This list is meant to be a working group.
>
> After people have had a day or two to introduce themselves, we'll have a better idea of how many people are actually planning to participate in this list for now, and can plan accordingly. I've got a list as long as my arm of potential design projects we can divvy up into groups, so knowing people's backgrounds and interests will help determine which projects we hit first. We can also then decide on a day/time for a weekly UI chat in IRC.
>
> I'm in the process of setting up a site for this group to use a la wpdevel.wordpress.com, and will start adding people as authors once we have created teams and begun working on projects and there are things to report. I'll need to know your wordpress.org login name to add you to the site. Usability people are welcome and encouraged to speak up also, not just designers. Getting the plan up and running for distributed testing is on the goals list, too.
>
> I guess I'll start. I'm Jane, and am the main UX person for WordPress.
> I led the admin redesign of 2.7, and work closely with the core team on UI changes. We never have time to get to everything, so there's still a ton left to do. I work for Automattic, which donates a big chunk of my time to the open source project. Before this job, I'd worked at agencies, companies and research groups in almost every front-end web job there is over the last 10 years. Though mostly UX stuff, I've also done project management, content development, HTML, visual design, testing, etc. Right now I'm a bottleneck for UI changes in WordPress, and anyone who works in this industry knows that it takes a lot longer to create a wireframe deck than it does to sketch an idea, so I'm hoping to grow this group into a healthy contributor community so that I can step back into more of a advisory/curatorial role rather than slowing things down while I draft wireframes or conduct individual testing sessions. I'm on the east coast, and would love it if the weekly chat could be dur
>  ing the day sometime before 3pm, but if the majority needs to have an evening meeting instead, I can work with that. I traditionally do wireframes in Omnigraffle, but would like to find a good open source tool (the ones I've tried haven't been great) that we can all use for this if possible. I generally go for Photoshop for comps, and have not found GIMP to be an adequate substitute, though I'd love to move visual design to open source tools as well. Suggestions are welcome.
>
> I'll be happy to answer questions, point to resources etc for those who want to get involved. However, this is not the right place (yet,
> anyway) to come if you are just getting started and want to learn the design/UX trade as a new career move or something. I'd like to start off with more experienced UI/UX people just to get some processes nailed down. I hope that in the future the WP UI group will be an awesome place to come to learn new skills.
>
> Who's next?
> Jane
>
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