Title Slide: A Design Perspective on the REST API

Mel Choyce

@melchoyce / melchoyce.design / mel.blog

Who’s in the room?

Designers are excited about the REST API

A gif of Michelle Tanner from Family Matters dancing

Whole new ballgame

More control over the back-end or the front-end

Progress, not stagnation

“Blog” no more

Great custom client sites

Better product design with WordPress

API opens new avenues of work

Mobile Design

Not experts… yet

Interaction Design (IxD)

https://dribbble.com/shots/3344228-Moving-task-flow- interactions

Not a lot of interaction in the current WordPress admin

Design is important to showing state changes

Learn the basics now

We’ll need help with the technical bits

How developers can help

Talk to designers early

What’s changed?

We might need help

Walk us through things

We might be worried

Be patient

Can your team cover front-end, too?

Some designers will happily adapt

Collaborate with designers to make cool new things

When WordPress does well, we all do well.

Thanks

@melchoyce / melchoyce.design / mel.blog

Title Slide: A Design Perspective on the REST API Mel Choyce @melchoyce / melchoyce.design / mel.blog