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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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Filipe Varela
Gutenberg Emphatic Empathy
The goal for this empathy challenge was straight-forward: re-create a Longreads article by using Gutenberg. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s what the new Gutenberg editor promises: Get ready to make your words, pictures, and layout look as good on screen as they do in your imagination, without any code. I picked the article “Did…
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David A. Kennedy
An Hour with Gutenberg to Create an Image-Rich Story
Today, I spent an hour recreating a post from Longreads in the Gutenberg publishing experience to gain some empathy for our customers. You can check out the video, and see a screenshot of the final product. Here’s what I learned: General thoughts I used the Fashion Blog theme by Automattic, an in progress, experimental theme…
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Allan Cole
Empathetically Challenging Gutenberg
For this challenge I dug up an interesting article from Longreads called “Welcome to the Center of the Universe” and tried to recreate it using our Gutenberg plugin. Here’s a screen capture of how it went: It took about 26min to complete which is pretty quick by my standards. Much of the article’s content in…
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Tammie
A cup of tea with Gutenberg
Gutenberg is a codename for the project focusing on the entire publishing flow of WordPress. The first phase of this is the editor. For those of you that don’t know, Gutenberg works with everything being a block. Content is added by choosing block types, for example it could be an image, a gallery, a paragraph along…
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Ben Dwyer
Gutenberg Empathy Challenge April 2018
Here’s my Gutenberg Empathy challenge. Generally, I enjoyed the experience. I had never used Gutenburg before and I generally found it easy to discover how it works by exploring and playing with it. I have made some assumptions about what is expected from Gutenburg – for example, I would expect themes to be able to…
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Ballio Chan
A trial of Gutenberg – Empathy Challenge #2
All Automattic designers are tasked with rebuilding a Longreads article of their choice, using the latest and greatest version of WordPress’s next-gen editor, Gutenberg. Since I’ve worked on some videos for Gutenberg, this is not my very first time test driving it. BUT, as you might see from my sped up video, I am by…
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