Improve Block Management UX

[ravichdev]

Issue by jauyong
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021 at 18:41 GMT
Originally opened as xwp/material-design-wp-plugin#525

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Feature description

Priority: Issue

Miro board link Issue 14

Issue 14: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PWNEY5L9neu1O10p2KGczON8_lWOCiXOUeGRFT3wz1k/edit#gid=0

Users should be able to easily find Material Blocks in the editor.

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Acceptance criteria

1. Research ways of helping users to manage their blocks better. Would a tool tip help users know Material Blocks work best with their theme? Can Material blocks be higher up the hierarchy? Do users need to know about the global block manager?

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[ravichdev]

Comment by jauyong
Friday Jan 29, 2021 at 16:10 GMT

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We are unable to pull the material blocks to the top of the list in the explore blocks side panel.
@jwold to sit with this and has 2 ideas he wants to explore.

[ravichdev]

Comment by jwold
Friday Jan 29, 2021 at 16:11 GMT

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• Ravi > May not be possible to re-order to move Material to the top. Block Library is frequency + most used blocks.

Idea 1: Is to re-look at the onboarding, and just see if a tiny video or screenshots would help with discoverability
Idea 2: Is to add a modal to first time opening Gutenberg, modal or tooltips to suggest Material. Investigate what other block plugins are doing. Don't want to conflict with Core.