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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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