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Automattic Design Stories 487

Automattic Design Stories 487

  • Desiree Zamora Garcia Avatar
    Desiree Zamora Garcia

    Why all designers should do customer support

    All new hires at Automattic are required to spend three weeks as a Happiness Engineer, solving…basically anything one can create with a WordPress.com site. Plus anything that the phrase “systems thinking” adds to its scope. Many years ago, I had a stint at Apple as a Genius, which meant that it was my job to…

    Why all designers should do customer support
  • Invisible

    The best design is invisible. It is functional to the point that you forget how it works, you just use it. You might even forget it took effort to invent once upon a time. For any designer creating work for others, this can be a difficult realization to come to terms with. Perhaps what drove…

    Invisible
  • The Curious Mind

    “Start from curiosity. Welcome and seek out difference.” The Dotcom Design team recently completed a series of user interviews in an attempt to better understand small businesses and their needs. We heard from small business owners in a wide range of fields; everything from photography to handmade crafts to coaching clients. These folks came from diverse…

    The Curious Mind
  • Mel Choyce Avatar
    Mel Choyce

    Seeking out Stories

    Earlier this year, I got involved with an organization called Get Her Elected, which seeks to pair women running for office across the United States with talented, remote volunteers. I spent the year following the 2016 elections full of anxiety and despair, fearing for my future safety and the safety of my family, friends, and countless…

    Seeking out Stories
  • Sylvester Wilmott Avatar
    Sylvester Wilmott

    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…

    Test Driving Gutenberg
  • David A. Kennedy Avatar
    David A. Kennedy

    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…

    Front End Design, WordPress Themes and the Future
  • Gary Murray Avatar
    Gary Murray

    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…

    Gutenpressure
  • 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…

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