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Automattic Design Stories 481

  • Giving Gutenberg a spin

    We were tasked with trying out Gutenberg. I actually half completed this task a couple of weeks back with a Longreads post but didn’t end up posting about it. So this morning I gave it another try, attempting to recreate this post on coffee. How did it go? It was an interesting experience, in total…

    Giving Gutenberg a spin
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    Chris Runnells

    Taking Gutenberg for a spin

    Full disclosure: I’ve been using Gutenberg a bit with my work on the WordPress.com Theme Team, but I haven’t used it in this particular way. Yesterday I would have told you that I knew my way around Gutenberg, but this exercise forced me to re-think a few things and use some blocks I hadn’t considered…

    Taking Gutenberg for a spin
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    David Levin

    Test Driving the Gutenberg WordPress Editor

    Hey there! have you heard? A new editing experience is on it’s way to WordPress. It’s called Gutenberg. In an attempt to build empathy for humans on the other side of the screen, many of the designers and developers at Automattic (The parent company of WordPress) are test driving Gutenberg and documenting their experiences along…

    Test Driving the Gutenberg WordPress Editor
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    Megs Fulton

    Kicking the Tires of Gutenberg

    For this edition of our empathy blogging, designers at Automattic were challenged to recreate a Longreads article using the Gutenberg plugin. According to Netflix I have a thing for British drama and strong female leads so true to type I selected Queens of Infamy. About halfway through I realized that the article, while entertaining, is…

    Kicking the Tires of Gutenberg
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    sarah semark

    Testing on the train

    I went a bit off-script for my empathy challenge. I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to build small businesses sites using WordPress, so I tried to replicate a pattern I see a lot—one that’s often rather hard to achieve using vanilla WordPress as it currently exists. Something along these lines: I…

    Testing on the train
  • Using Gutenberg for the Very First Time

    As a part of our empathy challenge, designers at Automattic were tasked with recreating an existing article using Gutenberg, WordPress’ upcoming editor. Most of us took the challenge, and so did I.

    Using Gutenberg for the Very First Time
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    Ian Stewart

    In the difference between promise and present

    Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the difference between promise and present. The difference between expectations, hopes, dreams, visions — the optimistic future — and the “what needs to get done today to get things moving and building a solid foundation.” It’s partly on my mind because I’m a person excited about the future…

    In the difference between promise and present
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    ashleyvonclausburg

    Using Gutenberg Like a User

    All designers at Automattic are tasked with quarterly empathy challenges to help us better look at our products from the perspective of our users. Our most recent task was to recreate an existing post using our new Gutenberg editor. While I’d definitely read a lot about the editor, I hadn’t actually gotten into the nitty…

    Using Gutenberg Like a User
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    gareth allison

    Gutenwhat?

    As many of you in the open source community will know, WordPress is moving towards a block-based post and page editing format in the nearish future. Dubbed Gutenberg (yes, after he of the first printing press fame), this blockular (not a real word) editing approach is a pretty radical departure from the way things are…

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    Tiago Noronha

    My Gutenberg Empathy Challenge

    This quarter we were asked to recreate a Longreads article using Gutenberg. For the past couple of months I’ve been co-developing the WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block, so by now I feel like I’m pretty familiar with how Gutenberg works inside and out. Since I’m familiar with the interface, and I know how most blocks work,…