WRITING FOR A BETTER WEB
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roosmarijnvankessel
Drawing the holiday spirit — Interviewing Cinta Arribas
Based in a small city in Northern Spain, Cinta Arribas is an illustrator and visual artist with over ten years of professional experience. She studied Fine Arts in Salamanca and Kassel (Germany), and recently completed an artist residency in Washington, DC, through a program of the Spanish Embassy.
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vanessa riley thurman
2023 Year in Design
A look back at all the amazing things that the Automattic Design team accomplished together in 2023.
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Monika Burman
A Place of One’s Own, in Noho
Automattic is distributed first, but we love getting together in this magic space.
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Elizabeth Pizzuti
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.
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Beatriz Fialho
Introducing Twenty Twenty-Three
Twenty Twenty-Three, the new WordPress default theme is here, alongside WordPress 6.1.
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Joe Keenan, javiloureiro, lessbloat, Jarosław Morawski, Marta Przeciszewska, Andrei Slobtsov, vanessa riley thurman
The Best Design Books We’ve Ever Read
Great design books can open our eyes to new possibilities and unlock new insights that lead to great design. We recently asked our designers which design books had left the greatest impact on them and their work. Here’s what they said.
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sanjagrbic
Jetpack Design Meetup in Barcelona
A key part of distributed life is meetups. We plan them together, choose the location, dates, and activities, and then travel to meet there for work, and for fun. A perfect setting to get to know each other, work together, explore our surroundings, and create memories that last a lifetime. The Jetpack Design Team met…
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Beatriz Fialho
Designing a theme in the WordPress Editor
Thanks to WordPress 5.9 and the evolution of Full Site Editing, it’s possible to design a fully-featured theme using just the Site Editor.
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Javier Arce, Beatriz Fialho
Designing the State of the Word
Read about the design process and inspiration for our State of the Word 2021 presentation.
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Allan Cole, Christy Nyiri
High Quality, Free, Open Source Design Assets – 2022 Edition
When I first started learning web design, every type of creative software I used was proprietary. These tools often came at a cost, and there was no way to customize them beyond what was originally intended. Later, I discovered WordPress, which exposed me to the idea of open source software, and I instantly became fascinated…
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Poli Gilad
Creating Order in the Chaos: Designing My Remote Workday
How I created a system that consistently helps me organize my thoughts and my time in a way that works for me.
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Joen A.
Demoing WordPress
Recently a few of us set out to record demo videos for some of the new features set to arrive in the upcoming version of WordPress, version 5.9. In case it’s helpful to your team, here’s what we learned for this latest round of videos.
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Elizabeth Pizzuti, L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Automattic Women: Elizabeth Pizzuti
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 is designer Elizabeth Pizzuti. Who are you, and what do you do? At Automattic, I’m the design lead working on improvements to the admin experience…
A FULLY DISTRIBUTED TEAM MAKING THE WEB A BETTER PLACE.
Women At Work Podcast
Automattic sponsored the Season 2 of Women At Work, a podcast about female creativity, leadership & feminism.
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