How can I describe the latest 2.7 design? Weird is the word that springs to mind, but, they are innovating so with an open mind let’s take a look.

First up I am presented the new dashboard; an odd series of icons and a list of dashboard widgets:

The icons down the site work in two ways: hover over them and get a drop-right menu or expand the menu and the open in-line

Moving over most of the dashboard widgets gives you an edit link so you can choose to change the settings.

Not all of these widgets will let you edit them yet but some do. And you can move them around by clicking and holding on the name.

At the top of every page there is a page options settings that opens an window to let you choose what to include on that page.

The changes mean you can actually have a very minimalist post page that is quite conducive to writing without clutter:

I am sure there is some way to go with this yet but it looks interesting. What do you think?