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WordPress Admin Theme Redesign

November 22, 2013

As you may know, MP6 – the new admin interface – has finally found it’s way into core and will be part of WordPress 3.8 by default. I personally love the new design and couldn’t imagine going back, but there’s always room for improvement. George Kordas has made quite a comprehensive concept of what the admin screen could look like in the future. It is modern and brings the look and feel of iOS7 to the screen with it’s blurred backgrounds and light fonts. I especially like the media uploader screen.

As he writes on the site, he’s developing this whole thing and will be releasing it as a free plugin. Looking forward to it!

This will also be a free plugin which is currently in production.
Follow me @ twitter.com/gkordas for release date.

WordPress Admin Theme Redesign on Behance

Yuri Victor: Why The Washington Post Uses WordPress

August 20, 2013

Great presentation from Yuri Victor at WordCamp San Francisco about how and why they use (and love) WordPress at the Washington Post.

True words from Joel Hladecek about the whole “Skeuomorphic VS Flat Design” Debate.

Essentially, every user interface on Earth is ornamentally referencing and representing other unrelated materials, interfaces and elements. The only questions are: what’s it representing, and by how much?

Why Apple’s Interfaces Will Be Skeuomorphic Forever, And Why Yours Will Be Too

It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main dropdown to its submenus. You won’t run into the bootstrap bug. They get away with this by detecting the direction of the cursor’s path.

Ben Kamens (lead dev at Khan Academy) takes a look at how Amazon handles their Mega-Dropdown.

He even wrote a little jQuery Plugin and shared it on GitHub.

Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown – Ben Kamens.