## Metadata: - Source: Make WordPress Core blog - Reference: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/12/admin-design/ [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/Admin Design|Admin Design]] ## Summary: The **Admin Design** project aims to revitalize WordPress's wp-admin: improve visual clarity, reduce cognitive weight, and better support user workflows — while giving plugins and users more control over navigation and keeping the experience recognizable, intuitive, accessible, and delightful. It focuses on defining the structural pieces of the admin experience, leveraging existing APIs, and exploring personalization. ## Main Content: - **Goals:** clearer visual hierarchy, lower cognitive load, workflow-aware structure; more navigation control for plugins and users without losing familiarity. - **Approach:** define the admin's structural pieces, reuse existing APIs (e.g., `wordpress/components`), and explore personalization options. - **Design-system work:** close design-system gaps, build components for table and list views, introduce full theme color support, and tackle assorted design challenges. - **Constraints/values:** recognizable, intuitive, **accessible**, and delightful — accessibility is named as a first-class goal, not an afterthought. - **Process:** an open, feedback-driven Phase-3 initiative; ideas and requests from the WordPress community are explicitly welcomed. ## Links - [[Visual Thinking MOC]] — applies-in — admin UX/design-system as visual communication and information hierarchy - [[State of Accessibility in WordPress 6.3 Gutenberg]] — extends — the accessibility track of the same WordPress admin/editor evolution - [[DevRel MOC]] — applies-in — wp-admin changes shape what DevRel must document and onboard contributors to