2025-11-06 - Design Working Group Meeting

35 min

Notifications Phase 1: Design Review

@Ali Hugo

• Reviewing designs for the notifications tray, Preference Center, emails, and upsell panel

• Make sure to consider how the new notifications tray will interact with the studio outline redesign / sidebar patterns

• We’ll be using this FigJam document to collect feedback during the meeting

10 min

Platform-Level Design Review

@Cassie Zamparini

• Gauging interest in a platform-level end-to-end experience mapping effort from learner, to instructor, to admin experience

• Goal: high-level platform map to help designers working on Open edX understand how features interact

• We’ll all vote here.

15 min

Indigo / Default Open edX theme review

@Sam Daitzman / @aamir ayub

• Discuss Indigo theming

• Context

  • BTR is considering testing on Indigo rather than the default built-in Open edX theme

  • Extensive previous discussion: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/x/HgCIGAE

  • BTR discussion: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BgBAOwE

  • FC-0096 analysis of theming: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYBALgE

• Conversation

  • Regis: Indigo is enabled by default because the default experience is not great, so if the design WG could improve upon default that’d be a good step forward

• Areas of focus for Design WG

  • Landing page improvements

  • Default colors/ Paragon colors

  • https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-indigo/issues/146

1min

Administritivia

Any

Is this page fully represented / covered by the new DB? If so can we archive it? - https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3937402897