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Jeff Ong
What is a Creative Technologist?
Within Automattic Design, we have two communities of practice: “creative technology” and “product experience”. Every designer falls into one of these two communities. Having this distinction helps us to create balanced teams, as well as sharpen craft and develop mastery among our designers. What is a creative technologist? For our purposes, the basic distinction of…
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Jeff Ong
Automating Asset Creation
The first thing a child draws looks like a circle. People spontaneously arrange themselves in a circle when they need to observe something close up, and this led to the origin of the arena, the circus, and the stock exchange trading posts. Bruno Munari, “La Scoperta del Cerchio (The Discovery of the Circle)” 1964 At…

