Shaun Andrews

Author: shaunandrews

  • Resize media library thumbnails on the fly.

    Far from perfect, this slider lets you change the size of the thumbnails in the media library. See a bunch of smaller images at once, or zoom in and see bigger images. [wpvideo 7U0xVSKj]

  • Toying with Media Library Interactions

    I’ve been playing with some interactions and styles for the Media Library, with the goal of making it easier to browse and manage your media in WordPress. Check out the video and tell me what you think. [wpvideo CazqQ1sp]

  • More Widgets User Testing

    Last night, I create a user test for the recently updated widgets prototype. About 30 minutes later, I had this super awesome video of a real person using the prototype and talking about his thoughts and experience: (beware the loud cough at the beginning) [wpvideo LxDbNbEd] This one went very well. And it seems that…

  • Widgets Prototype, Take 2

    I’ve continued work on the Widgets prototype, this time taking some cue’s from Ben’s user test. His comments about the modal “being in the way” really struck a chord with me. This latest iteration removes the modal all together, in favor of a list of available widgets. Check out the video and let me know…

  • Ben Giordano on Widgets in WordPress

    Yesterday afternoon, I had the opportunity to spend some time with my friend, and owner of FreshySites, Ben Giordano. We spent about an hour talking about WordPress, widgets, and more. Most of our time was spent talking about widgets. Watch the video to get some great insight into the existing widgets interface, as well as…

  • Happy Mason

  • SyracuseSync

    I attended, and spoke, at SyracuseSync yesterday. It was a great event, and I had a blast speaking with, and hearing from lots of central New York web designers, developers, and bloggers. You can download the slides from my talk (warning: 10.5 MB file) about WordPress and Automattic.

  • Add a New Widget

    [wpvideo UnHywVHU] I’ve continued to work on this prototype for widgets in WordPress. Its coming along nicely. I hope to run some user tests next week.

  • Another Idea for Widgets

    Part of the goal of redesigning widgets in WordPress is to make the connection between widget areas, and their presentation on the front-end of your site, more obvious. It’s clear that there’s a big disconnect between the narrow column of sidebars (or widget areas) in wp-admin, and their location within your site’s theme. Here’s an…

  • Browsing Themes in WordPress

    Along with working on Widgets, I’m also working on some ideas for the theme experience in WordPress. Working with Matías Ventura, I’ve come up with the following wireframe: The big idea here is to merge the two pages, Manage Themes and Install Themes. We ran a user test, which you should totally watch, and quickly…