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Filippo Di Trapani
Starting with curiosity to make the difference
Before getting into my design career almost 15 years ago, I was an art student for an even longer time. At school, I was trained to be curious and produce creative work. We were taught how to explore the unknown, try things that hadn’t been done before, and seek out different approaches. Those skills carried…
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Tammie
Contributor stories
WordPress exists today because people contribute to it. They contribute in their evenings, weekends and lunch times. People choose to take WordCamp vacations, attend contribution days on a Sunday with their family. These volunteer contributors are the heartbeat of WordPress. They are the stories that whilst often unheard need listening to. Let’s be real, contribution…
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Ian Stewart
Seeking out differences and changing
If you’ve ever had to do anything moderately hard over a long period of time, failed at it, tried again, found some success, failed at it, tried again, and so on, looping on and on, you’ve probably in some way gone back to your first principles. Those foundational building blocks that lie deep beneath any…
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Mark
Long Live the King!
Content is king. Except that’s it’s often times regarded as the king of a small island located in the middle of a marshland far away from civilization. It’s a king that no one seems to have much time for, especially for those who are building their own businesses. There’s been a lot of research lately…
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nozomimimi
Localization beyond translation
In my previous life, I worked on bridging gaps between international versions of software products—my team and I conducted user interviews and usability studies in both the US and Japan, focusing on our end users, “Visitors”, to see how different parts of user experience that we offer are perceived by people from different cultures and…
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Filipe Varela
Traveling the world and telling stories
Some say we travel not to see the world, but look inwards instead. By removing the shell that is our comfort zone, we can learn more about ourselves, and test our ability to create new paths in absence of what’s familiar. To go where we’ve never been. The interesting thing is that developing a product…
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Jeff Golenski
Designing consistency: Impact on agencies and their customers
A long time ago in a galaxy where I still currently reside, I was a marketing & product designer for several multimedia agencies focused on building marketing websites for small businesses. The platform of choice for these small businesses? You guessed it: WordPress. Most of us know WordPress as an open source platform that’s fairly…
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Ballio Chan
On growing my intuition
I used to think I have pretty good intuition in design and creative. I come from the advertising agency world. In the ad world, things are done a certain way. When we create an ad campaign, we usually receive a request from a client with a problem to solve. If we’re lucky, we’ll have a…
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Ashleigh Axios
My Secret Sites
My portfolio site was on WordPress for years. I was really proud of not just the content of the website, but also the site itself. With it’s custom-designed theme, it was exactly what I wanted. After a good many years of ease and beauty, you’d probably think I’d feel grateful and complacent. I was for…
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Erin Casali
How stories ground our iterations from macro to micro
When reviewing generic design processes, we often see the same steps over and over, with different names and maybe split in slightly different ways. In practice, good design always follows at least three macro steps iterating one after the other in an infinite series: listening, thinking, and making. Yet, that’s just the foundation: how do…
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