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Laurel Fulford
Gutenberg, Longreads, and Climate Change in Cities
Like my fellow designers at Automattic, this quarter I spent some time trying to recreate a Longreads story using Gutenberg, the new block-based editor for WordPress. I’ve already had some experience with Gutenberg, but primarily on the theming end of things. I haven’t used it to set up “real” content yet — all the Gutenberg…
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James Koster
Recreating “Are The Teens All Right?” in Gutenberg
In this post I document my experience recreating the Longreads article “Are The Teens All Right?” by Danielle Tcholakian in the Gutenberg editor. In fact I tried to recreate the entire web page, including the header and the footer. I approached this challenge with the assumed mindset of someone fairly new to Gutenberg and recorded…
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Courtney Burton Doker
Using Gutenberg to recreate “It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens”
For the latest design empathy challenge we were asked to replicate an article using the new Gutenberg editor. As a fairly new Automattician, I’ve been pretty unfamiliar with Gutenberg so I was excited to spend some time using it. The Challenge To complete this challenge I followed these steps: Use the latest version of Gutenberg…
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Mark Uraine
Testing Gutenberg: An Empathy Challenge
Like so many of my colleagues, I thought I’d test Gutenberg by answering the call to an empathy challenge. We were asked to recreate an existing post with the new Gutenberg plugin (soon to be in Core). Among recording our screen session, we’re also to list our struggles and accomplishments using Gutenberg. I spent about…
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Ola Bodera
Taking the Gutenberg challenge
Gutenberg editor plugin is under rapid development, and each release brings new, exciting features. One of the easiest ways anyone can contribute to the project, is by using Gutenberg, and giving feedback on your experience. And this is exactly what we were asked to do for this quarter’s empathy challenge. The challenge: use the latest…
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sixhours
Taking Gutenberg for a Spin
As part of our quarterly empathy challenge, I attempted to recreate this Longreads post, “Hey, Can I Sleep In Your Room?”: Studying Love with Elizabeth Flock. Beyond copying and pasting the article itself, I attempted to recreate the entire page — site header, content, and footer — to see how far I could push it.…
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Jan Cavan Boulas
Gutenberg Plugin Review
For this quarter’s empathy challenge, we were asked to pick a post from Longreads and recreate it. I used my own site, jancavan.com, and created a page on there. I have a fully customized theme, albeit it’s quite old, so I had to switch to a default theme (Twenty Fourteen) to make sure standard styling…
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Kjell Reigstad
Reproducing a Discover feature in Gutenberg
Gutenberg is rapidly getting better and better. I’ve been digging into its relationship to themes, and have been experimenting with its role in content as well. In that vein, I took on a Gutenberg challenge this month: Use the latest version of Gutenberg — currently 2.4.0. Pick a post from Discover or Longreads. I chose Selling…
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Erin Casali
The little copy machine test: reproducing a structured article with Gutenberg 2.3
Gutenberg, the new WordPress editing experience is coming soon. While a lot of work is happening from every perspective — design, development, testing, plugins, etc — it’s always worth to do a test run ourselves to measure the current state. The test To run this test I followed these criteria: Use the latest version of…
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Brie Anne Demkiw
Tips for Hiring Designers for Remote Teams
Creating a great design team and designing great products means hiring great designers. Automattic has been hiring people around the world to work remotely for over 10 years. More recently, we’ve been scaling up and refining how we hire designers. Here are a few things we’ve learned along the way: Take advantage of limitless geographics.…
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
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