James Koster

Adventures in WordPress product design

January 12, 2021

Explorations in workflows around content and template editing in the WordPress Site Editor

Lately I’m spending a lot of time ideating on how users will manage their templates in WordPress’ Full Site Editing (FSE) project. This post cobbles together a few rough concepts I’ve put together for some of the key flows and interactions. These are all very early concepts that will evolve over time. You can follow…

Categories: Gutenberg, Ideation, Templates
June 19, 2019

Scaling WordPress Navigation

Recently the WordPress.com design team deployed an update to the primary navigation portion of Calypso (the javascript-powered interface that WordPress.com customers interact with). This exercise in reorganisation and subtraction reduced an overwhelming side panel that previously contained ~10 items, several buttons, and sub headings down to a succinct 6 items with logical groupings and patterns.…

Categories: Ideation