What happens when a bunch of designer greats get together to work on improving the WordPress Admin Panel? Great things.

Brokenkode unvailed the future of the WordPress admin panel, which is codenamed “Shuttle”. Shuttle has been in the works since December 2004, long before WordPress was such a staple in the blogging industry.

The project combined the likes of Michael Heilemann (K2 and Kubrick WordPress Fame), Joen Asmussen, Chris Davis, Joshua Sigar, Ryan Boren, and Bryan Veloso. The multi-talented designers and coders worked together for a good year in a half, and the result is superb.

It becomes evident looking at these screenshots, that WordPress is heading in all the right directions. Currently, the wordpress admin is lacking. It is easily bogged up with multiple things all jumbled together (say, a write post page with plugins installed), but Shuttle hopes to change all that. Everything is neatly organized and clean, the whole interface itself is more like running a desktop application than a web application. Be prepared for WordPress beauty in it’s future versions.

For more, check out brokenkodes project page.