Michael Arestad's ideas for improving the “new post” screen are very exciting to me. Well worth spending some time reading about, and a great time to pitch in if you have any magical UX ideas.
Matej Latin did a survey of designers who quit their jobs and discovered: No career progression opportunities and unhappiness with the work they do were about equal, at about 20% each. Problems with company culture came next. A lack of UX maturity was third followed by salary, poor relationships with management, and misalignment with company…
James Koster has been posting some really nice design experiments for the full site editor interface. A key goal is to make the user experience less jarring: instead of dropping [users] directly in edit mode, we might instead present their site in a navigable ‘frame’, accompanied by a menu of features, where styles and navigation…
Job titles can be confusing. If you’ve ever tried to hire a WordPress consultant to build you a website, or you’ve had inquiries about your services, you’ve likely encountered some level of confusion trying to decipher what an individual (or yourself) offers based on your title. I’ve historically called myself a WordPress Developer. Other common…
Move Over CSS, Here’s JSON • A New Generator Goes Turbo • The Hidden World of Javascript in WordPress • Cool Tool: URL Params
Bob puts out so much writing and audio at Do the Woo and has so many different people featured, it’s hard to keep up! These are some recent ones I’ve taken note of but didn’t get into a post or newsletter. Definitely worth a listen:
Felix Arntz has a detailed post on CSS Custom Properties and how to use them to improve UX for both website visitors and content creators. Felix is “looking forward to seeing this feature being leveraged by WordPress themes more” as “it’s another important milestone for improving user experience across the web.”
