Automattic Design Stories 485

Sylvester Wilmott

Automattic Design

Test Driving Gutenberg

As part of our latest Empathy Challenge, designers at Automattic were challenged to recreate an article using Gutenberg. Gutenberg is a new block based editor designed to simplify post creation and so I was happy to try it out! Here are my initial thoughts. I chose to recreate this article from longreads.com Total time: 27…
David A. Kennedy

Automattic Design

Front End Design, WordPress Themes and the Future

Say goodbye to the themer. If you’re not familiar with the WordPress world, that term may not mean much. But in that space, it’s a role, usually with a front end design skill set, filled by a person who creates WordPress themes. Being a themer has always been a point of pride for many, myself…
Gary Murray

Automattic Design

Gutenpressure

Try Gutenberg and share your thoughts as you try to re-create a blog post – seemed simple enough. Even though I had missed the deadline for this, I wanted to give it a try to see how it worked, and here are my results. Disclaimer: I tried using Gutenberg to re-create this post that was…
Joan Rho

Automattic Design

How to Create a Website for Your Small Business, Part 3: Customization and Sharing

Back in Part 2 of this three-part tutorial series, we set up our website, planned out the structure of our site pages, and added in our main content. Now, it’s time to start customizing our site further by going through the following: Adding social media integrations and feeds Adding a blog with a few sample…
marinawoo

Automattic Design

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…
Chris Runnells

Automattic Design

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…
David Levin

Automattic Design

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…
Megs Fulton

Automattic Design

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…
sarah semark

Automattic Design

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…
Dom

Automattic Design

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.