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James Koster notes the existence of the WordPress Design Library (an archive of WordPress design assets) and talks specifically about some key features and fundamentals of the Figma tool.🎨
This is useful if you want to prototype or design elements in the WordPress block editor for an app.
Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but insightful take on “the open source paradox,” which is “the proportionality between the money people give you for coding something, and the level of demand for the quality they can claim to have about your work.” On the one hand, “[t]he real right you have, and often don’t exploit,…
🎨 Lukas Oppermann writes about the more and less well-known benefits of design systems: “Knowing the benefits can be useful when you try to convince your management that a design system is not a waste of money. Or when you want to convince your designers that it will not replace the creative part of their…
Upcoming Events 📆 There is a free webinar today (January 29th) on the subject of WordPress’s Full Site Editor and themes. It will be hosted by Carolina Nymark, Ari Stathopoulos, Anne McCarthy, and Birgit Pauli-Haack. WordCamp India 2021 will take place over three weekends from January 30 to February 14, 2021! Coming up on March…
Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and organizers have learned a great deal since then. There have in fact been 314 WordCamp’s…
18F and the United States Digital Service (they are different, here’s a description) are doing amazing things to advance government web properties. I think it’s a pretty non-political statement to say their work could be a lasting legacy item for President Obama. 18F have now released new web design standards that are really outstanding. I had…
The next iteration of WordPress components/Gutenberg’s design is currently being explored under the codename “G2 Components.” There is a roadmap here and an open issue about how to best approach integrating this into Gutenberg. This is certainly the cutting edge for WordPress, and I’m looking forward to learning more from Jon Quach (who has shared…
