Automattic Design
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As designers, we spend most of our time solving problems for our users by building products. How can we save a user time on a task? How can we make…
On WordPress.com we have a showcase full of beautiful, diverse themes, but it has an ugly side as well, hidden from the public view. Behind the scenes we have Trac…
WordPress.com has recently launched our very first TV commercials – telling the stories of small businesses in Detroit. The spots document our journey during the Detroit Hackathon we’ve held with…
Working at Automattic, a company at the time of writing this post has 565 employees working from 56 different countries, it’s imperative to learn how to work remotely. Luckily, in…
As a Theme Wrangler, I’m a member of the team here at Automattic that builds, maintains and reviews the themes on WordPress.com. Right now we have over 380 themes available…
This week, I published a post about how the Theme Team at Automattic decided to retire one of our recent experiments:
Say goodbye to having to install a plugin to manage your plugins! Over the past few months, we have been working on figuring out how we could simplify our customer’s…
For the past 6 months or so, I’ve dreamt of blocks. Jan 1st I started work on designing the WordPress core editor focus for 2017. That is, with the ultimate…
Understanding users is of paramount importance, that is clear to any product designer. But sometimes creating an accurate persona to test against can be tricky. Sometimes it might even be…
I know there’s no such thing as a status quo.
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