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Eduardo Villuendas
My Gutenberg Experience
I’ve spent close to an hour today experimenting with Gutenberg 2.6. My goal was to recreate as best as possible this great article published in Longreads. I had used Gutenberg before, but this was the first time I tried to create something as complex as this. I loved it. Here’s a screencast of the session…
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Mike Shelton
Testing a new editing experience with Gutenberg
With the upcoming official release of Gutenberg, a call was put out to all Automattic designers to test and review the experience. Gutenberg is a plugin that changes the page and post editing experience of WordPress to a block-based format with the promise of enhanced capability and flexibility. The challenge was to choose any post from…
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Thomas Bishop
Replicating a Longreads Post in Gutenberg
Having spent a good chunk of the past couple months working on envisioning what Gutenberg might look like in the context or our native mobile apps, I found the newest design team Empathy Challenge an interesting one that got me thinking differently. Up until now, I’ve been mostly focused on the starts and ends of…
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Kelly Hoffman
Why doesn’t my site look like the demo?
Every year at Automattic, we put down our day-to-day work and do customer support. No matter what position you are in. We all dive in. In my past five years here, I’ve heard more than my fair share of frustrated customers upset that their new theme doesn’t look like the demo; the one that was…
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Filippo Di Trapani
Unboxing Gutenberg for WordPress
There has been a lot of excitement building in the WordPress community about a plugin called Gutenberg. The plugin offers a new publishing experience that promises to transform the way people create content and build websites. With the first official release around the corner, a challenge was issued for all the designers at Automattic to…
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Composing a rich post with Gutenberg
All of Automattic’s designers were recently challenged to try out the upcoming new WordPress post editor, Gutenberg. The task we were given was to choose a rich media post, such as a longform article from Longreads, and recreate its layout and formatting inside of Gutenberg. Gutenberg is a very ambitious project that aims to, eventually,…
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John Maeda
My Experience Using Gutenberg
I’ve played with Gutenberg but I haven’t actually used it to do something complex, yet. So I set off to re-create this story used in Longreads to see how far I could get. My overall read of the 30-minute fast sprint experience was: Creating spatial relationships is how I see the world — so I…
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Rick Banister
Don’t block the box
In order to give the new WordPress core editor Gutenberg a test drive I tried to recreate the formatting of the Longreads article A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture by Minda Honey on my own test site. It took me about 26 minutes to get the hang of most of it, and I kind of quit…
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Jeff Golenski
Fresh look into Gutenberg for WordPress. A usability walkthrough
Although I’ve seen Gutenberg in action on the big screen, up until now, I haven’t really tried to use it to create content or layout. This 53 minute long walkthrough is my first real in-depth attempt at utilizing Gutenberg to create a blog post.
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Maria Scarpello
Gutenberg 2.6 Empathy Challenge
One Automattic designer’s experience copying a Longread’s post to recreate it with Gutenberg.
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