Designing WordPress - Heart&Sole2011

John O’Nolantwitter.com/johnonolan

Radiiatehead of operations

WordPressdeputy head of UI group

.com .com

Clients: Writing:

Projects:

Lesson 1.There is no way to keep30,000,000 users happy.

But we do our best.

Lesson 2.

How Much You Think You Know About WordPressHow Much You Really Know About WordPress

Lesson 3.

Charts That John Finds Useful & FunnyCharts That Are Genuinely UsefulCharts That Are Genuinely Funny

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Start Middle End After Party

Level of Funny

Progression of Chart Humour

Behind The Scenes

Behind The Scenes

Matt MullenwegCo-founder & Project Lead

Ryan BorenLead Developer

Mark JaquithLead Developer

Andrew OzzLead Developer

Peter WestwoodLead Developer

Jane WellsUX/UI and Community Lead

Andrew NacinCore Commit

Dion HulseCore Commit

Contributing Core Developers with Temporary Commit Status

Trusted Contributing Core Developers

Active Contributing Core Developers

Casual Contributing Core Developers

Matt ThomasStyle Lead

Specific Area Core Commit

John O’Nolan UI Deputy

UI Group Contributors

Forum ModeratorsTheme Authors

Docs Team

Plugin Authors

WordPress Users (including consultants/private developers)

Testers

WordPress Users

Theme Reviewers

Mark Riley Plugin Repo Lead

Joseph ScottTheme Repo Lead

Codex Editors

Ben Dunkle Icon Designer

Forum Volunteers

WORDPRESS.ORG STAKEHOLDERS


















Docs Team

Plugin Authors


Testers

WordPress Users

Theme Reviewers



Codex Editors


Forum Volunteers

THE CIRCLE OF TRUSTAndrew NacinDonncha

O’Caoimh

Jon Cave(duck_)

Silviu Burca(Scribu)

Alex M(Viper007Bond)

Andy Skelton

Joseph ScottXML-RPC

Mike Adams

Matt ThomasUI/2010

Nikolay Bachiyskii18n

Dion Hulse

John O’Nolan(UI Group)

Samuel Wood (Otto42)

Daryl Koopersmith

Matt Mullenweg

Jane Wells

Peter Westwood

Andrew Ozz

Mark Jaquith

Ryan Boren


















Docs Team

Plugin Authors


Testers

WordPress Users

Theme Reviewers



Codex Editors


Forum Volunteers

WORDPRESS.ORG STAKEHOLDERS


















Docs Team

Plugin Authors


Testers

WordPress Users

Theme Reviewers



Codex Editors


Forum Volunteers

Let’s Go Back In Time

WordPress 0.71

WordPress 1.5

WordPress 2.3

WordPress 2.5

WordPress 2.7

WordPress 3.0

We’ve come a long way.

Who Are We Designing For?

100,000,000 Views Per Day

Just on WordPress.com100,000,000 Views Per Day

3,000,000,000 Views Per Month

A Report Last Year Suggested That

WordPress Powers 8.5% of The Internet

Over 26,000,000 Sites

BUT

Microsoft migrated an estimated

30,000,000 additional sites to WordPress.com

Total: 56,000,000 Sites*

How Many Sites Microsoft Said They MigratedHow Many They Really Migrated

*

Total: 30,000,000 Sites(ish)

It’s like selling out every seat at every match at every stadium at the World Cup

10 Times

The Best Part?

They Speak Over60 Different Languages

Who Are We Designing For?

Lots of people.

The WordPress Design Team

Jane WellsHead of UI / UX / Community

Matt ThomasWordPress Style Lead

John O’NolanDeputy Head of UI Group

That’s me!

Ben DunkleIcon Designer

The UI GroupTracy Cannon + Sara Cannon +

Chelsea Otakan + Irregular Members

+ Honorary Member: Andrew (codemonkey) Nacin

How Do We Do it?

UI LeadDev LeadMattUsers


Style Lead Icon Design UI Deputy



UI Group(design)UI Lead UI DeputyStyle Lead




REVIEW(does it work?) NO!YES!Implement it! #blamenacin




REVIEW(does it work?) NO!YES!Implement it!

UI Group(markup+css)

UI Deputy Core Dev BetaRelease

#blamenacin


Some code stuff happens

here



Star Trek?




#blamenacin



here



Star Trek?




USER TESTING(does it work?) NO!

YES!

Final Release

#blamenacin



here



Star Trek?



BetaRelease


YES!

Final Release

#blamenacin

UI Deputy Core Dev

It All Started With Some Tabs



here



Star Trek?





YES!

Final Release

#blamenacin

Don’t Forget

&

Everything has to be flexible

What’s Next?

WordPress 3.1

Blue Admin Skin

UI Elements PSD(UI Group Repository)

Style Guide

Beautiful CSS(phase 1)

WordPress 3.2 ?What’s Coming in

You Tell Me.

The UI Group Blog: http://make.wordpress.org/ui

The UI Group Meeting:

http://webchat.freenode.net

Tuesdays - 19:00 GMT

Channel: wordpress-ui

http://make.wordpress.org/ui




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