Shuttle Launched

Before you read this I suggest you go and have a look at the 20 mockups showing the future of WordPress.

The idea of redesigning the WordPress administration panel began believe it or not in December 2004. For over a year and a half myself, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar (later joined by Bryan Veloso) exchanged countless emails and mockups and links and ideas regarding what we thought the WordPress administration panel should be. The project was called the Shuttle Project. I now have the pleasure of presenting what we came up with and explaining the future of the project.

The Shuttle project was without a doubt the single hardest thing I've ever been involved with. The only thing that made it easy for me was the fine and exceptional gentlemen on the Shuttle team itself. What made it so difficult is the fact that we were thinking of the thousands of WordPress users all over the world. We were thinking of usability, we were thinking of asthetics, we were thinking of the power user and the novice user. How do you get three headstrong (and passionate) designers to play nice with each other? I swear I have no idea but somehow it all actually worked out in the end. I owe Michael and Joen a great deal of thanks for helping me improve how I think about design.

However the greatest thing that I could have gotten from this project is the sense of collaboration that I felt throughout the project. We were all working towards making something we use on a daily basis that much better, it makes Open Source that much more enjoyable. Although it was tough going through this design process, I think we'll all instantly forget everything once it's part of the official install.

When's it coming out?

Matt Mullenweg (lead developer of WordPress) will be incorporating these mockups into the official WordPress releases in due course. I don't know when he's going to be getting round to implementing the code for it all, so if you're willing to help out to move the process along, by all means feel free to contact him and offer your assistance. This will not be a plugin.

I can't wait for the Shuttle designs to be incorporated into the WordPress install, as I do believe that once it's done there will be only one choice in which platform you should be using.

WordPress Identity | The Colour Blue

There are some serious changes to the architecture of the panel as we see it, and I (and the rest of the Shuttle team) will be going through the decisions we made and the reasons behind them in due course. The first element I think I'll talk about is the choice of colours. When the project first began, the WordPress administration was a drab grey. It included a nice big gradient along the top of the navigation bar.

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So the first major change we made was give WordPress a colour and it's own distinct identity. We had to make sure that it didn't mimic any of the other blogging tools out there, so we did a bit of research first. Textpattern has orange, Symphony is green, Moveable Type is grey/green, Expresion Engine is purple. We decided to go for blue. What does blue signify you ask? An easy link (and direct from Wikipedia) is that the colour blue:

...is considered a calming, soothing colour, perhaps related to its association with water and to the sky.

That was what I was hoping we'd get. The colour palette provides an atmosphere that is familiar and not harsh on the eyes. Seeing as a lot of people spend a great deal of time looking at the actual backend of WordPress a great deal throughout the day, it was very important to keep the visual impact of the administration panel to a minimum.

After a great deal of back and forth and loads of mockups and discussion the number of hues of blue was kept to a total of 3. These same blues would be used to distinguish links within the panel itself, as consistency is a major factor in keeping the user comfortable.

System Messages | The Importance of Colour

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One idea that I really loved, however it didn't really fit in with the overall design was the error and sucess system messages. The original intent was that an error or warning would be given a red colour while a successful message be given a green colour. This would provide a great visual aid, and users would instantly know if something was wrong or right. However we decided that the light blue and yellow coloured icons could provide the same level of visual information with the addition that they tie into the design itself which is what we were here for in the first place.

Join me next time as I talk a bit about usability (or at least try and talk about the subject).

Discussion

47 Responses to Shuttle Launched

  • I don't use Wordpress, but that looks very nice. I think on the aesthetics side, you guys certainly succeeded. If you also succeeded with the rest, Wordpress users have to decide.

    Nice job!

  • Great job to all involved. You all have done a wonderful things from the looks of the screenshots provided. I can't wait to actually see this in action.

  • Awesome job guys! Looks pretty good!

  • [...] Shuttle has been launched and now we can only hope that it’ll be implemented into Wordpress soon.  It looks pretty awesome. [...]

  • Yay! The wait is over. Thanks to everyone that ever contributed to the project.

  • Sweet guys. The ramshackle lack of conformity of the admin pages has always nagged a bit. Nice job if it can be transposed into code and CSS successfuly - and I don't see why it shouldn't be.

    My only disappointment here is that you seem to have retained the menu layout and that unnecessary double page load needed for anything beneath the default option. It would have been so much sweeter to have gone for proper drop-down menus - single click - which are so easy to implement (I publish a plugin that does just this) in just CSS. Saves time - saves bandwidth. It's worth considering...

    Otherwise - looking forward to it.

    By the way - if this goes ahead as planned it would be so nice to see a guide for plugin authors - classes and positioning etc., that they should use.

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    The Shuttle project began over a year and a half ago, aiming to beautify the WordPress administration panel. With the help of Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen and Bryan Veloso (all top-notch designers), ...

  • andy said:

    My only disappointment here is that you seem to have retained the menu layout and that unnecessary double page load needed for anything beneath the default option. It would have been so much sweeter to have gone for proper drop-down menus - single click - which are so easy to implement (I publish a plugin that does just this) in just CSS. Saves time - saves bandwidth. It’s worth considering...

    Andy, I like what you've done; we battled long and hard regarding how to make everything look clear to everyone. It was decided to keep things as simple and familiar as possible however giving it that much needed facelift.

  • Nice, the mockups look fantastic! Can't wait to get my hands on it as I've been following this project since it was first mentioned.

    I was going to suggest releasing it as a plugin in the interim as Steve has done with his Tiger Admin theme, but then realized Shuttle is probably a lot more involved than that. Awesome that it's going to be incorporated into future official WP releases. Congrats on that!

  • Congratulations on finishing the project guys! I think the Wordpress community as a whole thank you for the time and effort you've all put in to the project. :)

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  • Congratulations to contributers, thanks for your nice looking work. I hope not to wait too long to touch & feel the new dashborad :)

  • Thanks to all of you who have been working so hard to make our lives more pleasant, I really appreciate it.

  • [...] Khaled announced today that Shuttle Launched! When I read that in my feed reader I was stoked. I was hoping to be able to download the new fancy admin area in plug-in form, but alas it this was not the case. The work is done by Khaled and the other Shuttle crew, but now the files lay in the hands of Matt, the creator of WordPress with hopes of it being implemented in a future release. While I am pleased the project has finally reached this stage, I do wish that the plug-in idea had taken shape and it was available for use. I will just wait a bit longer and hopefully the powers that be will get this going in not so distant future. Khaled has also given us some tasty screenshots of the new hotness of the WordPress admin panel which can be viewed here. Posted under General Nonsense [...]

  • Great stuff - that's one of thé most sexy UIs I've seen. I bet somebody will label it bloated and cluttered, but I love exploring my admin panels, so for me it's a good thing.

    Must be a great feeling to get to contribute such a big piece to the official Wordpress puzzle. Congratulations to all involved!

    By the way, can't say I envy Matt for his task of implementing these mockups.. :)

  • wow, great work by all. Looking forward to seeing it in real life. Congrats to all who worked so hard on the project !

  • [...] Shuttle is done, finally, in spite (or possibly because) of Kubrick Guy announcing on his podcast a couple of weeks back that he was quitting the project. It looks nice, though still a little dark for my taste, and it’s not as pretty as Tiger (but then, it has to work in a range of environments, which Tiger doesn’t). Nonetheless, it looks significantly better than the current default and light years better than the amateurish grey Georgia that came before. [...]

  • Wordpress shirtpress....the site looks so fcuking cool!

  • [...] The Shuttle project began over a year and a half ago, aiming to beautify the WordPress administration panel. With the help of Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso (all top-notch designers), Shuttle has finally taken off. To get a better sense of what Shuttle is, I recommend you take a look at some of the screenshots. Shuttle is not a plugin you can download, instead it will be integrated into the next version of WordPress. The Shuttle team has worked closely with Matt Mullenwegg, lead WordPress developer, to seamlessly incorporate their efforts into WordPress.   [...]

  • [...] Shuttle for WordPress Launched Published 0 minutes ago in WordPress. Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, internet, php, plugin, plugins, shuttle, software, wordpress. Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, internet, php, plugin, plugins, shuttle, software, wordpressThe Shuttle project began over a year and a half ago, aiming to beautify the WordPress administration panel. With the help of Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso (all top-notch designers), Shuttle has finally taken off. To get a better sense of what Shuttle is, I recommend you take a look at some of the screenshots. Shuttle is not a plugin you can download, instead it will be integrated into the next version of WordPress. The Shuttle team has worked closely with Matt Mullenwegg, lead WordPress developer, to seamlessly incorporate their efforts into WordPress. [...]

  • I'm so glad that Shuttle is shaping up to be much more than just a CSS restyling of the administration panel. The fact that you guys have been focusing on building a more functional system makes me believe that Wordpress stands a fighting chance of staying at the top.

    I'm excited!

  • [...] Well.. sort of. The mockups for Shuttle have been sumbitted to Matt Mullenweg and he has said they will be incorporated into future releases. Of course, now that the project is out of the Shuttle team’s hands we can only guess as to when this will be pushed to the public. [...]

  • Wow. Amazing job with that interface. I can't wait to get a chance to play around with it within Wordpress.

  • [...] Shuttle Launched Published May 15th, 2006 Tags: Asides, blogging, cms, css, design, html, Software, Wordpress. Shuttle launched although it is not available for download as its code will be incorporated in to the Wordpress core. (0) [...]

  • [...] It's coming! The much anticipated Shuttle admin interface for WordPress has launched and is currently under review by Matt. Shuttle may find its way into a future revision of WordPress. The Shuttle is a complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project has been in development since early 2005. The images below effectively show the future of the WordPress administration panel. These are the images we did on Photoshop, so there is no plugin for you to download, as it’s not been incorporated into the final release yet. [...]

  • It's great to see something like this finally working its way to WordPress.

    WordPress is one of the simplest (if not the simplest) blog and CMS tools I know of, but I think the original interface scared away a number of people; the 2.0 version is better, I believe, but this will really make it. The current style just isn't all that intuitive unless you've used it for a while (we old users will have to relearn, won't we? haha!).

    The new login screen is bordering orgasmic.

  • [...] The new Shuttle admin interface for wordpress has been completed. There are quite a few screenshots and I think it looks fantastic. It is not available for download, but Matt is going to be making it the official interface. I don’t know when that will be happening, but I can’t wait to give it a shot. [...]

  • [...] It has undoubtedly been a very long wait. I actually got word of the wonders of Wordpress through knowledge of the Shuttle project, there was news of shuttle coming out sometime this year but nobody knew when. But, it is finally here, I mean, I orbit. But Khaled did say that Shuttle won’t come in the form of a plugin, but instead as the default Administration Panel design for the next released of Wordpress. w00t! The wait however seems worth the while, the mockups look brilliant. When it is in final form, I’ll plan an upgrade of my current version of Wordpress ( Currently 1.5 – Upgrade to 2.0+ ). // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = ""; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = "none"; } [...]

  • [...] Khaled announced the launch of the Shuttle project and its acceptance as the future of the WordPress administration panel. [...]

  • That looks really neat, I'm definitely looking forward to using it!

  • [...] If there is one thing to complain about my beloved weblog platform, then I would say the look of the administration panels without much hesitation. However, this very aspect of WordPress is about to change soon. After over a year and a half of hard working, Khaled and the rest of the crew have finally announced the launch of Shuttle, which is a project to redesign the WordPress administration panel. The unfortunate part of this fortunate announcement is that users have to wait a bit longer. It will not be released as a plug-in, but rather it will be examined by Matt Mullenweg, and eventually incorporated into the future version of WordPress. If you are eager to see what will the administration panels look like, you can assuage your desire by checking out these shots gracefully revealed by Khaled. Meanwhile, let’s just pray that we will see Shuttle incorporated into the next release of WordPress. Finally, big thank to all the hard-working people involved in this project, thank you for making WordPress even better, even more irresistible! [...]

  • Wow, the mockups looks fantastic, cant wait to get my hands on it

  • Shuttle project for WP was launched...

    The shuttle project which began back in dec 2004 was finally launched to make the WordPress administration look better. The people behind this project are Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, and Bryan Velos...

  • [...] Shuttle, the proposed new admin interface for WordPress, has been finished and is now being reviewed by Matt Mullenweg. There are some more screenshots here. Search [...]

  • I don't know what I was hoping for, but while I am impressed with much of what you have done, I don't think it was a far enough departure from what we have currently.

    I love how you did the themes area though, the way it shows the thumbnails and stuff, very cool.

    I look forward to downloading the Shuttle ready WordPress 2.1.

  • So, um...what resolution is this designed for? It seems rather large (larger than 1024). Is it a liquid or fixed width?

  • [...] Shuttle, the Wordpress Administration Panel redesign project from Khaled(of BrokenKode), Michael Heilemann (of Binary Bonsai), Joen Asmussen (of Noscope), Chris J Davis (of Chrisjdavis), Bryan Veloso (of Avalanstar), Joshua Sigar (of alphaoide), Matt Mullenweg (of Photomatt) and Ryan Boren (of Boren) has finally launched. Go over to the project site to see a preview of what’s coming. Now we just have to wait for Matt to incorporate Shuttle into Wordpress. [...]

  • This is why we need opensource development. Great work guys.

  • [...] Khaled has drawn back the curtain on Shuttle. It’s a fantastic set of work by an exceptional group of people (Khaled, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Bryan Veloso). There are some pretty significant shifts in there so it’ll be integrated incrementally rather than overnight, and I also plan to test out things on WordPress.com first and watch usage to make sure none of our assumptions are too far off, but I think it’s safe to say that this is a pretty significant milestone for WordPress and we have some exciting months ahead of us. Everyone should thank the Shuttle team. (Note: There will be some ongoing design work as well, especially as new features are added to WordPress. If you’re a kick-ass designer who can juggle code as well as Photoshop, drop me a line.) « Back to Toronto [...]

  • I love the emphasis you guys put into making it accessible, usable AND stylish. Wordpress is definatly improved with this.

    Great work!

  • First off, the redesigns look great, and as a user of Wordpress, I'm really excited about the functionality and the design behind these mockups.

    However, the current menu styling (2.0.2) has a larger font-size and for the top menu and the three bars along the top also have different heights.

    I think that this not only looks better, but also helps aid in the making the that whole area more intuitive by giving different treatments (besides just color) to the different types of functionality in that area. I would really hate to see that change.

  • Congratulations, and thank you so much!

  • [...] Well almost, you may remember a while back I talked about a complete redesign of the Wordpress admin panel that has been codenamed ‘Shuttle‘. The team seem to have been working on this for ever and from the pictures it’s gonna be a big improvement on the standard set up at the moment. The hard work, sweat and toil appears to have paid off and the design is now (Photoshop) complete, though my understanding is that there is still some way to go implementing the code. Check out the pictures on Khaled’s Broken Kode. [...]

  • Wow, amazing job by all of you. This looks like it can take wordpress so much father, the current admin panel is so lacking, and this really helps address all the issues and organizes everything perfectly. WP 2.5 + Shuttle? That'd be sweet.

  • [...] One of the blogs that I always like visiting is Broken Kode by Khaled, his reboot this year is great and his illustrations *gasp* are mouth watering. Manji was also the first template I downloaded when I started using wordpress back in the misanthropist era. Anyway, to get to the point, Shuttle, the wordpress admin beautification project, has been semi-released with a ton of screenshots and release notes. It just makes you wanna jump into the open source community and do some project of some kind, anything, it’s painful, yes, but damn does it look worth it. Anyway, I need to refine my php “knowledge”, and maybe eventually I will be able to do something worthwhile (and that would be cool). Published May 15th, 2006 Tags: broken kode, open source, shuttle, wordpress. [...]

  • I can't wait you works in public! Good Job!

  • Strangely, the main admin page reminds me quite a bit of the MT main admin page. Is that intentional, or is it just me being on crack?

  • Thanks everyone for the great support, I'm working on another post that should hopefully address a number of your questions and comments, but I thought I'd answer this one now, since it's Eric's first comment on the Kode that I can remember :).

    Eric Meyer said:

    Strangely, the main admin page reminds me quite a bit of the MT main admin page. Is that intentional, or is it just me being on crack?

    Definitely crack, or maybe speed? Seriously though Eric, you got that impression o_0? I'll be expanding on our design in the coming week but I think you'll find that apart from the the shuttle admin looking like it's a commercial application (which MT is) it's effectively an extrapolation of the elements that were in the WP admin from version 1.2 onwards.

    Unless MT have changed things around (I've not actually seen screenshots since we started this project to be honest, because we did our research and looked at everyone else's admin first)?

  • Wow! I love the layout changes which makes it WP look even better! :) I love layouts which are clean and simple yet look professional at the same time.

  • [...] Which is why I have been keeping my eye on the ‘Shuttle‘ project over at Broken Kode - an attempt to develop a cohesive, pleasing, usable interface for WordPress admin to follow. And yesterday, many months after Shuttle was announced, images were finally released of all the hard work the small team have put into this important project. And I have to say that in my opinion they have come up with a winner. Clean, consistent and easy to follow - and hopefully Shuttle will also deliver a companion document detailing all the CSS classes and default images that plugin authors will be able to refer to when coding their own admin pages. [...]

  • [...] Shuttle Project vil eftersigende blive en del af den officielle WordPress udgivelse. [...]

  • thanks and great work.

    if anyone cares for feedback, can the instructions column on the left be made to slide in and out? once they're read, we'll not be needing them :)

  • I agree, the new admin pages do look better, much cleaner altogether. If I had any one comment, it might be that the use of a drop-down box to select the displayed name in the User Profile section always seemed like a waste of screen real estate - wouldn't a properly labeled option circle next to each of the four text boxes not only work just as well, but look cleaner?

    Still, I have to admit to looking forward to Shuttle, and the next major release of WP in general. Great work!

  • [...] Go and check it out. Posted by Oliver Beattie No Comments Tagged with: administration, backend, back end, beautification, beauty, blog, panel, shuttle, snippets, wordpress, wp [...]

  • [...] Matt drops a link to Khaled’s announcement about Shuttle, a long-term project to overhaul the WordPress admin UI. [...]

  • Nice I idea. But will there be options of the way it looks? Because the login area now I personally like. Also the same with the rounded movable post option boxes (there not rounded in the example) The way the menu looks now I like too. I know it's not quite ready but options and were could we give suggestions. But over all nice. Thanks...

  • [...] Broken Kode today announced the launch of shuttle, a redesign of the Wordpress administration panel involving various designers and coders. [...]

  • Well done guys! Can't wait to see it in action (Matt says WP.com will get it first, which is nine kinds of cool)

  • [...] Though the project has officially launched, there is no immediate date for its incorporation into WordPress. I am anxious to see this rolled out in future versions of WordPress, however, it makes me wonder whether I should rethink that “using the WordPress admin” guide I have been planning… [...]

  • Clarify one thing for me...after a year and a bit, all you have is photoshop mockups? No code yet?

  • 60 Comments...oh wow.....popular this thing aye!

  • To clarify, WP.com won't get it before regular WordPress or anything, I'll code for WP first and then port it, but while I'm working on the changes it might be a good excuse to do some A/B testing on the live site and share the results. It will either serve to reinforce the designs against people who might object to the process, or identify areas to iterate on.

  • seriocomic said:

    Clarify one thing for me...after a year and a bit, all you have is photoshop mockups? No code yet?

    Many lessons were learnt Mike, many lessons were learnt. The development would happen in bursts. Fury of action for like 3 or 4 weeks and then it would go quiet for a while. Open Source development has it's advantages and disadvantages. Lessons learnt :).

  • [...] So I read Khaled’s launching post and got to see screen shots. I was massively unimpressed. It’s definately an improvment on 1.5’s admin interface but it’s gone backwards from 2.0. At first I didn’t like 2.0’s but it has really grown on me the more I’ve used it. I shouldn’t be so harsh, they are only screenshots afterall, the functionality might be amazing so I should cut it some slack. I know the importance of simple, unelaborate design for the masses but I think it’s gone to a bad level of simplicity. [...]

  • [...] Reading the first part of the story behind the work so far is fascinating and I can’t wait until it’s integrated into WP and will appease people who believe the current WP admin interface isn’t professional enough. [...]

  • [...] Let’s be frank here, WordPress rocks, no doubt, but since it’s early beginning, the interface design has lagged behind it’s technical powers. This is why since December of 2004, Khaled, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar and later Bryan Veloso started Shuttle, a collaborative effort to bring design beauty to the WordPress admin interface. Well, it’s been almost a year and a half and the Shuttle team finally release their final mockups to the public. [...]

  • Wait, you have the css and html finished?

  • [...] Shuttle Launched - Khaled talks about Shuttle, an improved UI for the Wordpress administration section that he has been working on (FAQs) [...]

  • [...] El propio Khaled confirma en su blog (estupendo el diseño) que Shuttle será la apariencia que tendrá la próxima versión del panel de administración de WordPress. En la página del proyecto están disponibles decenas de capturas para ir abriendo boca. [...]

  • The screenshots look great. Been looking forward to this for a while.

  • David said:

    Wait, you have the css and html finished?

    Read the FAQ which is on the front page now ;)

  • [...] Wordpress Shuttle, the redesign of the Wordpress Admin Panel, has been launched. [...]

  • [...] There is a post over on Broken Kode about the Shuttle project. Shuttle is a redesign of the WordPress administration interface. The project started in December of 2004 and now the team has about 20 mockups to show us. [...]

  • I'm going to have to disagree with Khaled in that Shuttle was not open source development because it happened behind closed doors. The product is released to the community, but the process of open source I think is intrinsic to its name.

  • Matt said:

    I’m going to have to disagree with Khaled in that Shuttle was not open source development because it happened behind closed doors. The product is released to the community, but the process of open source I think is intrinsic to its name.

    You could argue it that way but at the same time it was done by a group of people for a non-commercial reason for the aid of an open source project.

    You're right the process wasn't completely 'open' however for what we thought was a good reason. It wasn't completely design by commitee but then again it kind of was. It was a manageable commitee :). Anywho lessons learnt lessons learnt :).

  • [...] Well Khaled recently posted all the Shuttle mockups and has been talking a bit about it on his blog, which of course has triggered responses from interested parties through the WordPress-section of the so-called blogosphere. [...]

  • Great work.

    The admin area of WP has always been a major weakness for anyone using it as a CMS, this looks to address a lot of the problems in making WP easily usable by a client.

  • Thanks... Cool...

  • [...] Broken Kode - Shuttle Launched [...]

  • [...] The Shuttle was officially launched in 14th May and raised big debate between WordPress, design and Web 2.0 specialists. [...]

  • [...] According to Brokenkode, the home base for Shuttle: For over a year and a half myself, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar (later joined by Bryan Veloso) exchanged countless emails and mockups and links and ideas regarding what we thought the WordPress administration panel should be. The project was called the Shuttle Project. I now have the pleasure of presenting what we came up with and explaining the future of the project. [...]

  • [...] In trying to remember what in the hell this was called, I finally found it again on Matt’s site.  Shuttle is a total and complete redesign of the WordPress administration backend, which is probably the least liked piece of WordPress (IMO).  It looks amazing…as if it was written by a huge software design house.  Matt says they are going to start implementing it into WordPress.com first.  Awesome. [...]

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  • [...] Es kommt! Die wirklich sehnsüchtig erwartete neue Adminoberfläche scheint fertig zu sein und durchläuft gerade die wichtigesten Testphasen und Prüfungen. The Shuttle is a complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project has been in development since early 2005. The images below effectively show the future of the WordPress administration panel. These are the images we did on Photoshop, so there is no plugin for you to download, as it’s not been incorporated into the final release yet. Riskiert einen Blick in die wunderschöne Bildergallerie und schaut euch an wie schön Shuttle mit WordPress arbeitet. [...]

  • I think you did a great job... even though some people are complaining like big babies :)

  • Beautiful ! (and the "howdy user!" is gone :) )

  • [...] Which leads to my next problem. Disparity of design and implementation. WordPress, as we all know, is open source software - coded, tested and documented largely by volunteers without financial reward. And it often shows that a team of developers are at work with only a very brief design framework to work within. Take a trip through the various administration panels that are home to all users of the software. There is a tremendous lack of consistency in the way they function, in the naming of buttons and controls, in the sizes of fonts and layouts. In itself, as long as it all works, this is not that important - although it would be good to see the Shuttle designs implemented to address this. The real problem is that these disparate implementations run deeper than the visual interface. [...]

  • [...] Seit 2005 bastelten einige namhafte Entwickler an einer neuen Adminoberfläche für Wordpress. WordPress Shuttle nennt sich das Projekt, welches dem Adminbereich vor allem mehr Struktur und größere Übersichtlichkeit einverleiben soll. Das Projekt ist inzwischen fertiggestellt und das Ergebnis der Arbeit steht in Form von Screenshots zur Bewunderung bereit. Sehr gelungen. Sehr schick. Sehr erfrischend. Shuttle soll zunächst auf Wordpress.com getestet werden und wohl mit dem nächsten großen Wordpress Release den bisherigen Adminbereich ersetzen. [...]

  • [...] Shuttle Project ( complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel ) has been released recently. This project has been began more than one and half year and thanks to Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso, Shuttle project has finally taken off. [...]

  • [...] Shuttle Project (complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel) has been released recently. This project has been began more than one and half year and thanks to Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso, Shuttle project has finally taken off. [...]

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    • [...] Shuttle has been launched and now we can only hope that it’ll be implemented into Wordpress soon.  It looks pretty awesome. [...]
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    • [...] Khaled announced today that Shuttle Launched! When I read that in my feed reader I was stoked. I was hoping to be able to download the new fancy admin area in plug-in form, but alas it this was not the case. The work is done by Khaled and the other Shuttle crew, but now the files lay in the hands of Matt, the creator of WordPress with hopes of it being implemented in a future release. While I am pleased the project has finally reached this stage, I do wish that the plug-in idea had taken shape and it was available for use. I will just wait a bit longer and hopefully the powers that be will get this going in not so distant future. Khaled has also given us some tasty screenshots of the new hotness of the WordPress admin panel which can be viewed here. Posted under General Nonsense [...]
    • [...] Shuttle is done, finally, in spite (or possibly because) of Kubrick Guy announcing on his podcast a couple of weeks back that he was quitting the project. It looks nice, though still a little dark for my taste, and it’s not as pretty as Tiger (but then, it has to work in a range of environments, which Tiger doesn’t). Nonetheless, it looks significantly better than the current default and light years better than the amateurish grey Georgia that came before. [...]
    • [...] The Shuttle project began over a year and a half ago, aiming to beautify the WordPress administration panel. With the help of Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso (all top-notch designers), Shuttle has finally taken off. To get a better sense of what Shuttle is, I recommend you take a look at some of the screenshots. Shuttle is not a plugin you can download, instead it will be integrated into the next version of WordPress. The Shuttle team has worked closely with Matt Mullenwegg, lead WordPress developer, to seamlessly incorporate their efforts into WordPress.   [...]
    • [...] Shuttle for WordPress Launched Published 0 minutes ago in WordPress. Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, internet, php, plugin, plugins, shuttle, software, wordpress. Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, internet, php, plugin, plugins, shuttle, software, wordpressThe Shuttle project began over a year and a half ago, aiming to beautify the WordPress administration panel. With the help of Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso (all top-notch designers), Shuttle has finally taken off. To get a better sense of what Shuttle is, I recommend you take a look at some of the screenshots. Shuttle is not a plugin you can download, instead it will be integrated into the next version of WordPress. The Shuttle team has worked closely with Matt Mullenwegg, lead WordPress developer, to seamlessly incorporate their efforts into WordPress. [...]
    • [...] Well.. sort of. The mockups for Shuttle have been sumbitted to Matt Mullenweg and he has said they will be incorporated into future releases. Of course, now that the project is out of the Shuttle team’s hands we can only guess as to when this will be pushed to the public. [...]
    • [...] Shuttle Launched Published May 15th, 2006 Tags: Asides, blogging, cms, css, design, html, Software, Wordpress. Shuttle launched although it is not available for download as its code will be incorporated in to the Wordpress core. (0) [...]
    • [...] It's coming! The much anticipated Shuttle admin interface for WordPress has launched and is currently under review by Matt. Shuttle may find its way into a future revision of WordPress. The Shuttle is a complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project has been in development since early 2005. The images below effectively show the future of the WordPress administration panel. These are the images we did on Photoshop, so there is no plugin for you to download, as it’s not been incorporated into the final release yet. [...]
    • [...] The new Shuttle admin interface for wordpress has been completed. There are quite a few screenshots and I think it looks fantastic. It is not available for download, but Matt is going to be making it the official interface. I don’t know when that will be happening, but I can’t wait to give it a shot. [...]
    • [...] It has undoubtedly been a very long wait. I actually got word of the wonders of Wordpress through knowledge of the Shuttle project, there was news of shuttle coming out sometime this year but nobody knew when. But, it is finally here, I mean, I orbit. But Khaled did say that Shuttle won’t come in the form of a plugin, but instead as the default Administration Panel design for the next released of Wordpress. w00t! The wait however seems worth the while, the mockups look brilliant. When it is in final form, I’ll plan an upgrade of my current version of Wordpress ( Currently 1.5 – Upgrade to 2.0+ ). // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = ""; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = "none"; } [...]
    • [...] Khaled announced the launch of the Shuttle project and its acceptance as the future of the WordPress administration panel. [...]
    • [...] If there is one thing to complain about my beloved weblog platform, then I would say the look of the administration panels without much hesitation. However, this very aspect of WordPress is about to change soon. After over a year and a half of hard working, Khaled and the rest of the crew have finally announced the launch of Shuttle, which is a project to redesign the WordPress administration panel. The unfortunate part of this fortunate announcement is that users have to wait a bit longer. It will not be released as a plug-in, but rather it will be examined by Matt Mullenweg, and eventually incorporated into the future version of WordPress. If you are eager to see what will the administration panels look like, you can assuage your desire by checking out these shots gracefully revealed by Khaled. Meanwhile, let’s just pray that we will see Shuttle incorporated into the next release of WordPress. Finally, big thank to all the hard-working people involved in this project, thank you for making WordPress even better, even more irresistible! [...]
    • [...] Shuttle, the proposed new admin interface for WordPress, has been finished and is now being reviewed by Matt Mullenweg. There are some more screenshots here. Search [...]
    • [...] Shuttle, the Wordpress Administration Panel redesign project from Khaled(of BrokenKode), Michael Heilemann (of Binary Bonsai), Joen Asmussen (of Noscope), Chris J Davis (of Chrisjdavis), Bryan Veloso (of Avalanstar), Joshua Sigar (of alphaoide), Matt Mullenweg (of Photomatt) and Ryan Boren (of Boren) has finally launched. Go over to the project site to see a preview of what’s coming. Now we just have to wait for Matt to incorporate Shuttle into Wordpress. [...]
    • [...] Khaled has drawn back the curtain on Shuttle. It’s a fantastic set of work by an exceptional group of people (Khaled, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Bryan Veloso). There are some pretty significant shifts in there so it’ll be integrated incrementally rather than overnight, and I also plan to test out things on WordPress.com first and watch usage to make sure none of our assumptions are too far off, but I think it’s safe to say that this is a pretty significant milestone for WordPress and we have some exciting months ahead of us. Everyone should thank the Shuttle team. (Note: There will be some ongoing design work as well, especially as new features are added to WordPress. If you’re a kick-ass designer who can juggle code as well as Photoshop, drop me a line.) « Back to Toronto [...]
    • [...] Well almost, you may remember a while back I talked about a complete redesign of the Wordpress admin panel that has been codenamed ‘Shuttle‘. The team seem to have been working on this for ever and from the pictures it’s gonna be a big improvement on the standard set up at the moment. The hard work, sweat and toil appears to have paid off and the design is now (Photoshop) complete, though my understanding is that there is still some way to go implementing the code. Check out the pictures on Khaled’s Broken Kode. [...]
    • [...] One of the blogs that I always like visiting is Broken Kode by Khaled, his reboot this year is great and his illustrations *gasp* are mouth watering. Manji was also the first template I downloaded when I started using wordpress back in the misanthropist era. Anyway, to get to the point, Shuttle, the wordpress admin beautification project, has been semi-released with a ton of screenshots and release notes. It just makes you wanna jump into the open source community and do some project of some kind, anything, it’s painful, yes, but damn does it look worth it. Anyway, I need to refine my php “knowledge”, and maybe eventually I will be able to do something worthwhile (and that would be cool). Published May 15th, 2006 Tags: broken kode, open source, shuttle, wordpress. [...]
    • [...] Which is why I have been keeping my eye on the ‘Shuttle‘ project over at Broken Kode - an attempt to develop a cohesive, pleasing, usable interface for WordPress admin to follow. And yesterday, many months after Shuttle was announced, images were finally released of all the hard work the small team have put into this important project. And I have to say that in my opinion they have come up with a winner. Clean, consistent and easy to follow - and hopefully Shuttle will also deliver a companion document detailing all the CSS classes and default images that plugin authors will be able to refer to when coding their own admin pages. [...]
    • [...] Shuttle Project vil eftersigende blive en del af den officielle WordPress udgivelse. [...]
    • [...] Go and check it out. Posted by Oliver Beattie No Comments Tagged with: administration, backend, back end, beautification, beauty, blog, panel, shuttle, snippets, wordpress, wp [...]
    • [...] Matt drops a link to Khaled’s announcement about Shuttle, a long-term project to overhaul the WordPress admin UI. [...]
    • [...] Broken Kode today announced the launch of shuttle, a redesign of the Wordpress administration panel involving various designers and coders. [...]
    • [...] Though the project has officially launched, there is no immediate date for its incorporation into WordPress. I am anxious to see this rolled out in future versions of WordPress, however, it makes me wonder whether I should rethink that “using the WordPress admin” guide I have been planning… [...]
    • [...] So I read Khaled’s launching post and got to see screen shots. I was massively unimpressed. It’s definately an improvment on 1.5’s admin interface but it’s gone backwards from 2.0. At first I didn’t like 2.0’s but it has really grown on me the more I’ve used it. I shouldn’t be so harsh, they are only screenshots afterall, the functionality might be amazing so I should cut it some slack. I know the importance of simple, unelaborate design for the masses but I think it’s gone to a bad level of simplicity. [...]
    • [...] Reading the first part of the story behind the work so far is fascinating and I can’t wait until it’s integrated into WP and will appease people who believe the current WP admin interface isn’t professional enough. [...]
    • [...] Let’s be frank here, WordPress rocks, no doubt, but since it’s early beginning, the interface design has lagged behind it’s technical powers. This is why since December of 2004, Khaled, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar and later Bryan Veloso started Shuttle, a collaborative effort to bring design beauty to the WordPress admin interface. Well, it’s been almost a year and a half and the Shuttle team finally release their final mockups to the public. [...]
    • [...] Shuttle Launched - Khaled talks about Shuttle, an improved UI for the Wordpress administration section that he has been working on (FAQs) [...]
    • [...] El propio Khaled confirma en su blog (estupendo el diseño) que Shuttle será la apariencia que tendrá la próxima versión del panel de administración de WordPress. En la página del proyecto están disponibles decenas de capturas para ir abriendo boca. [...]
    • [...] Wordpress Shuttle, the redesign of the Wordpress Admin Panel, has been launched. [...]
    • [...] There is a post over on Broken Kode about the Shuttle project. Shuttle is a redesign of the WordPress administration interface. The project started in December of 2004 and now the team has about 20 mockups to show us. [...]
    • [...] Well Khaled recently posted all the Shuttle mockups and has been talking a bit about it on his blog, which of course has triggered responses from interested parties through the WordPress-section of the so-called blogosphere. [...]
    • [...] Broken Kode - Shuttle Launched [...]
    • [...] The Shuttle was officially launched in 14th May and raised big debate between WordPress, design and Web 2.0 specialists. [...]
    • [...] According to Brokenkode, the home base for Shuttle: For over a year and a half myself, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar (later joined by Bryan Veloso) exchanged countless emails and mockups and links and ideas regarding what we thought the WordPress administration panel should be. The project was called the Shuttle Project. I now have the pleasure of presenting what we came up with and explaining the future of the project. [...]
    • [...] In trying to remember what in the hell this was called, I finally found it again on Matt’s site.  Shuttle is a total and complete redesign of the WordPress administration backend, which is probably the least liked piece of WordPress (IMO).  It looks amazing…as if it was written by a huge software design house.  Matt says they are going to start implementing it into WordPress.com first.  Awesome. [...]
    • [...] Broken Kode - Shuttle Launched [...]
    • [...] Es kommt! Die wirklich sehnsüchtig erwartete neue Adminoberfläche scheint fertig zu sein und durchläuft gerade die wichtigesten Testphasen und Prüfungen. The Shuttle is a complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project has been in development since early 2005. The images below effectively show the future of the WordPress administration panel. These are the images we did on Photoshop, so there is no plugin for you to download, as it’s not been incorporated into the final release yet. Riskiert einen Blick in die wunderschöne Bildergallerie und schaut euch an wie schön Shuttle mit WordPress arbeitet. [...]
    • [...] Which leads to my next problem. Disparity of design and implementation. WordPress, as we all know, is open source software - coded, tested and documented largely by volunteers without financial reward. And it often shows that a team of developers are at work with only a very brief design framework to work within. Take a trip through the various administration panels that are home to all users of the software. There is a tremendous lack of consistency in the way they function, in the naming of buttons and controls, in the sizes of fonts and layouts. In itself, as long as it all works, this is not that important - although it would be good to see the Shuttle designs implemented to address this. The real problem is that these disparate implementations run deeper than the visual interface. [...]
    • [...] Seit 2005 bastelten einige namhafte Entwickler an einer neuen Adminoberfläche für Wordpress. WordPress Shuttle nennt sich das Projekt, welches dem Adminbereich vor allem mehr Struktur und größere Übersichtlichkeit einverleiben soll. Das Projekt ist inzwischen fertiggestellt und das Ergebnis der Arbeit steht in Form von Screenshots zur Bewunderung bereit. Sehr gelungen. Sehr schick. Sehr erfrischend. Shuttle soll zunächst auf Wordpress.com getestet werden und wohl mit dem nächsten großen Wordpress Release den bisherigen Adminbereich ersetzen. [...]
    • [...] Shuttle Project ( complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel ) has been released recently. This project has been began more than one and half year and thanks to Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso, Shuttle project has finally taken off. [...]
    • [...] Shuttle Project (complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel) has been released recently. This project has been began more than one and half year and thanks to Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso, Shuttle project has finally taken off. [...]
    • [...] is why I have been keeping my eye on the ‘Shuttle‘ project over at Broken Kode - an attempt to develop a cohesive, pleasing, usable interface for [...]
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