A guide on how to get started contributing design to the Gutenberg project.
For guidance on consuming or maintaining the WordPress Design System packages,
see Working with WordPress Design System packages.
Discussions
The Make WordPress Design blog is the primary spot for the latest information around WordPress Design Team: including announcements, product goals, meeting notes, meeting agendas, and more.
Real-time discussions for design take place in the #design channel in Make WordPress Slack (registration required). Weekly meetings for the Design team are on Wednesdays at 19:00UTC.
How can designers contribute?
The Gutenberg project uses GitHub for managing code and tracking issues. The main repository is at: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg.
If you’d like to contribute to the design or front-end, feel free to contribute to tickets labeled Needs Design or Needs Design Feedback. We could use your thoughtful replies, mockups, animatics, sketches, doodles. Proposed changes are best done as minimal and specific iterations on the work that precedes it so we can compare.
The WordPress Design team uses Figma to collaborate and share work. If you’d like to contribute, join the #design channel in Slack and ask the team to set you up with a free Figma account. This will give you access to a helpful library of components used in WordPress.
Principles
This section outlines the design principles and patterns of the editor interface—to explain the background of the design, inform future improvements, and help people design great blocks.