I’ve been thinking about the whole situation and how some people might feel a bit left out of the whole design process with regards to Shuttle. So in order to get some more feedback, and hopefully get a few ideas that we might not have come up with ourselves, I’m going to start writing these WorkShops. Every Workshop we’ll be dealing with the specific aspect of the WordPress Admin section the Shuttle team is currently working on.

In this inaugural edition, as you might have guessed, our attentions is going to be centred on the Dashboard. Currently as it stands, we’re effectively showing exactly what is shown currently in the Dashboard, except we’ve gone and relocacted the various sections (to make them more user centric), given them some colour and generally spiced them up. The question open for discussion is whether or not we’re missing something fundamental that you’ve seen elsewhere or you think the WordPress Dashboard could use.

Just off the top of my head,

1. Is there any specific GPL stats plugins that you think would make a fine addition to the dashboard section?
2. Would it be useful to be able to pick and choose what feeds are available to you in the WordPress feeds section?
3. Any functions that you have running on your dashboard currently that you think should be included in the core?

Concentrating on one specific aspect at a time will enable everyone to take an active role in the development of the WordPress Administration Panel.