[wp-ui] First steps

Tue Jan 19 19:57:59 UTC 2010

    RE: 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.

I'm TJ Mullinax, news producer at the Yakima Herald-Republic where I have my hand in nearly every portion of publishing news in central Washington.  I am also the primary UI designer behind our custom Web CMS, Depot Central (Ruby on Rails), depotcentral.org that runs yakimaherald.com as well as the union-bulletin.com. I am currently creating the next CMS UI wireframe in Creately, with mocup docs in InDesign and graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop.  I have been working with WP for years (and many of our special publications and sports site continue to use it) and am currently creating a judging system for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) for the quarterly video clip contest run within a customized WP UI theme. This will probably be my 15th site that I have set up that runs on WP or MU. I would prefer seeing improvements to the media management interfaces and extensibility for theme developers as well as integrating tools/menus to better control content for mobile display. 
-TJ

I'm Matt Thomas (aka "MT"). I'm the art director at Automattic where I, like Jane, spend a portion of my time working on WordPress core. I also spend my time on WordPress.com and Automattic's other services. I worked with Jane after the big "Crazyhorse" redesign to create a new visual style for the WordPress UI, which was implemented by the core devs in version 2.7. But that redesign only touched the topmost elements in the interface. While I think the last thing WordPress users want is yet another redesign, there's tons of things in the interface that haven't had much thoughtful attention paid to its design, and I'm excited to see what we can come up with to solve those problems and make WordPress even better.

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>    1. Re: First steps (Matt Thomas)
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>    3. Re: First steps (Gordon Brander)
>    4. Re: First Steps (Jane Wells)
>    5. Re: First steps (ben at field2.com)
>    6. Re: First steps (Matthias Gieselmann)
>    7. Re: First steps (Norman Paschke)
>    8. Re: First steps (Joel Goodman)
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:18:41 -0600
> From: Matt Thomas <mt at automattic.com>
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>> 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.
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> I'm Matt Thomas (aka "MT"). I'm the art director at Automattic where I, like Jane, spend a portion of my time working on WordPress core. I also spend my time on WordPress.com and Automattic's other services. I worked with Jane after the big "Crazyhorse" redesign to create a new visual style for the WordPress UI, which was implemented by the core devs in version 2.7. But that redesign only touched the topmost elements in the interface. While I think the last thing WordPress users want is yet another redesign, there's tons of things in the interface that haven't had much thoughtful attention paid to its design, and I'm excited to see what we can come up with to solve those problems and make WordPress even better.
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:35:15 +0000
> From: Hugo Baeta <info at hugobaeta.com>
> Subject: [wp-ui] Introducing myself
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> Hi, I'm Hugo!
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> I'm a Portuguese front-end designer / developer. I've been working with
> WordPress since 2.0 and I'm also part of the team for the Portuguese
> WordPress Comunity ( http://wp-portugal.com ).
> My skill-set goes from UI/UX design to xhtml+css and theme development.
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> My website's at http://hugobaeta.com
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> I'm looking forward to find out how I'll be able to contribute!
> Cheers,
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>    Hugo Baeta
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:45:29 -0700
> From: Gordon Brander <marlfoskr at gmail.com>
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>> 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.
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> I'm Gordon Brander,
> I'm a UI designer and front-end developer at Crowd Favorite <http://crowdfavorite.com>. I'm based in beautiful Colorado. 
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> A handful of things I've worked on:
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> - Lead front-end dev for the Carrington Theme framework.
> - Lead designer/front-end dev for the WP Mobile plugin.
> - Tweaked the blue admin color scheme for the WP 2.7 release.
> - Lead front-end dev on numerous projects for large companies, some of which get 1 million + uniques per day.
>
> I have a well-rounded knowledge of the design process, from wireframing to comps to implementation. On the implementation side of things, I'm proficient with CSS and cross-browser issues, accessibility, markup semantics, and Microformats.
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> I would really like to work on:
> - Streamlining the UI for Post Thumbnails.
> - Revising the Site Admin panel (MU) design hierarchy to reflect the actual hierarchy of the application. This is an issue we did some initial design exploration on in late in 2009, and I would love to pursue it further. 
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> Site: <http://gordonbrander.com>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:45:22 -0500
> From: Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First Steps
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> It would be great if people could link to their design portfolios  
> online  when posting their intros, so I can get a betters sense of  
> past projects and experience.
> j
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:52:41 -0500
> From: <ben at field2.com>
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> Hi, I'm Ben Dunkle. I live right outside of Buffalo, NY, and teach design
> full-time at Canisius College. I was a winner of the icon design contest
> and created the default set of icons that appear in the admin section of
> wordpress. Since then, I've done minor things like fix up the favicon and
> the loading/spinny thing you see when wordpress is processing stuff. I've
> also designed admin icons for plugin authors.
> I can help out with any "chromey" stuff?additional icons, visual aids,
> graphical enhancements/tabs/buttons/etc. I'd say admin sidebar/toolbar
> could be better. Sometimes plugins appear in tools, settings, or all by
> themselves.
>
> Ben Dunkle
> ben at field2.com
> field2.com
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> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:10:23 -0500, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>     
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:56:29 +0100
> From: Matthias Gieselmann <matthias.gieselmann at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First steps
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> I'm Matthias Gieselmann. I study communications design in Germany and
> do graphic design and php programming jobs. I'm not a very experienced
> UX designer yet and probably won't be able contribute too much in the
> beginning but I'm eager to learn from all of you.
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:58:34 +0100
> From: Norman Paschke <darth-norman at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: [wp-ui] First steps
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> Am 19.01.2010 18:10, schrieb Jane Wells:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> Hi,
> my name is Norman Paschke, I'm a 22 year old guy from Germany and I'm a 
> Frontend Developer in a local firm. In my free time I'm working with CSS 
> and jQuery and on WordPress Themes.
> You can find my blog at www.normansblog.de
> Since I started using WordPress for blogging, I was fanscinated how easy 
> yet effective it is to use (even as a CMS).
> I really hope I can help to improve WordPress in any way you think it 
> needs improvement :)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Norman
>   

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TJ Mullinax
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