When there are no synced patterns, the first pattern screen is empty and boring.

[carolinan]

What problem does this address?

On a fresh WordPress installation where there are no synced pattern created, the first screen when you select
Appearance> Editor > Patterns is empty:

What is your proposed solution?

Can we use this area to "promote" pattern creation?
And maybe even link to documentation.

[00travelgirl00]

Maybe a little welcome message with a button for "create a new pattern" in addition to your suggestions?

Do you mean with "promote pattern creation" the pattern library?

[carolinan]

I meant the first, add a second "create new pattern" button.

[annezazu]

@WordPress/gutenberg-design to consider as part of the release cycle!

[jameskoster]

In lieu of a nicely designed empty state (which may not be feasible for 6.3 given the time we have), could a short-term solution be to select the first non-empty category?

[carolinan]

Yes

[ndiego]

Just checking in here since Beta 4 is tomorrow. Do we think we can reasonably get this done for 6.3? Or should we punt?

[richtabor]

I don't think we could come up with something measurably better that would make a big difference in this short time.

But I'd appreciate if folks added ideas to this issue on how we could present an empty state that was insightful/an intro to patterns perhaps.

[jameskoster]

The current behavior feels pretty buggy imo. "No patterns found." is a bit contradictory when patterns clearly exist?

I don't know if there's time, but it'd be nice to either:

1. Skip to the first category that has patterns.
2. Include the "My patterns" category, active, with 0 count. This would at least contextualise the "No patterns found" message (which could be updated to say "You haven't created any patterns yet").

[annezazu]

There doesn't seem to be a clear decision here from design. Let's punt. Moving now.

[richtabor]

Include the "My patterns" category, active, with 0 count. This would at least contextualise the "No patterns found" message (which could be updated to say "You haven't created any patterns yet").

I like this approach.