{"id":342,"date":"2008-10-17T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/?p=342"},"modified":"2022-02-03T07:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:26:43","slug":"the-visual-design-of-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2008\/10\/the-visual-design-of-27\/","title":{"rendered":"The Visual Design of 2.7"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s finally here, the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The long months of your tolerance and forbearance as you suffered through the inelegance of our hacked-together, leftover Crazyhorse interface are almost at an end. (Was it really that painful?)<\/p>\n
The visuals you have been craving are finally finished enough to show, and have been approved by the lead developers. We hope you like them. Mad props to Matt Thomas and Andy Peatling for their visual talents. You can expect these designs to be extended to the rest of the 2.7 screens and implemented over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
So now that we finally nailed down the look, how’s it going to work? The menu system in particular has been the topic of discussion on the hackers and testers lists, so I thought I would take this opportunity to explain how we plan for it to work. As you know, one of the goals of 2.7 was to reduce the necessity to load new screens just to access sub-navigation menus; we wanted the most-used screens to be within a click or two at most. If you’ve been using the nightly builds, you got used to the arrow controls that allowed you to expand and contract the menus. Then you got used to the box-style with icons that not only opened and closed vertically, but could be minimized horizontally as well, leaving a remnant of icons to provide a kind of “advanced mode,” though you don’t need to be particularly advanced to use it. Now that we have real button styles (the icons are still placeholders, and we hope to have some new ones soonish), we’ve nailed down the menu functionality.<\/p>\n