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Writing for a better web

We also write! And we share stories about design, the team, our products, and how we do it. We’re open source in all ways, from the technologies we create to the ways we create them.

The Next Generation of Web Layouts

Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Who will design them? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing. Where text…

Best in WordPress Design: Fig Studio

This is Best in WordPress Design. Our purpose is to highlight exceptional web design done with WordPress around the world. We feature selected sites, and share a brief conversation with the people who made them.

Meet Dominic Comozzi and Kevin Zweerink

Meet our newest team members.

Automattic Women: Monika Burman

Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee…

Twentieth year of WordPress, Designed

Read about how the Automattic Design team celebrated the WordPress 20th anniversary.

A Place of One’s Own, in Noho

Automattic is distributed first, but we love getting together in this magic space.

Type Collaboration in Vienna

Automattic designers met in Vienna in February to collaborate, learn, and eat krapfen. And you won’t believe the typeface we made together!

We’re Stewards, Not Owners: User Experience and Open Source

Designing for open source software comes with gnarly challenges. Learn how WooCommerce is tackling them.

Best in WordPress Design: iA Presenter

This is Best in WordPress Design. Our purpose is to highlight exceptional web design done with WordPress around the world. We feature selected sites, and share a brief conversation with the people who made them.

Best in WordPress Design: Sandwich

This is Best in WordPress Design. Our purpose is to highlight exceptional web design done with WordPress around the world. We feature selected sites, and share a brief conversation with the people who made them.