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scottsweb
If all you have is a hammer…
The following post is a collection of tools that I use as to support my work as a digital designer at Automattic on the VIP Platform team. I tend to favour fewer tools, less software, less clutter. I like to think that it helps to stop the spread of information across platforms, products and software…
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Mel Choyce
Paying my way to success
Some changes are coming to the Automatic design blogs. Previously, we were tasked with writing an article each month on a topic of our choice. However, we’re now moving to quarterly posts. For our next article, we were given a specific prompt to follow: The topic for your January 15, 2018 post is to first…
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Dr. Leif Singer
The Importance of Remote Work and its Potential as an Equalizer
Note: this article originally appeared on leif.me. In the grand scheme of things, remote work is still a relatively new phenomenon. This is easy to forget when it’s part of one’s everyday life — which is why it’s all the more important to remind oneself that nobody has it figured out perfectly yet. People and organizations…
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scottsweb
The Decline
Earlier this year my wife Gemma and I took a short trip to Berlin. It is a place we have always wanted to visit and it didn’t disappoint. It is a city full of history, interesting architecture and most importantly, great food! Walking back to our hotel one evening, we discovered a building that stood…
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Jan Cavan Boulas
How WordPress Changed My Life
Growing up, I’ve always been very creative and drew a lot, perhaps influenced by my dad who has exceptional drawing skills, but I never thought I’d become a designer. In the early 2000s, I had an idea. I wanted a place where I could share my illustrations online. I wasn’t sure what to call it,…
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Eduardo Villuendas
Algunos plugins de Sketch útiles
Una de las muchas cosas que hacen que trabajar en Automattic sea genial es que no tenemos un set de herramientas establecido para hacer nuestro trabajo. Cada equipo tiene libertad casi total para escoger qué herramientas prefiere utilizar, y eso nos permite trabajar con comodidad, eficiencia y mantenernos siempre a la última. Como diseñador de…
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marinawoo
Learnings from designing WooConf 2017
I joined Woo in July 2014 just a few month before we hosted the very first WooConf in San Francisco. Since then we have hosted two more — in Austin last April and most recently in Seattle. Here are a couple of things I learnt designing WooConf 2017 which might be helpful for folks planning…
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Gary Murray
It just works…
For a long time, this was the reason I used to give people when I would explain why I bought Apple products, which inevitably were more expensive than a similar product offered by a competitor. However, of late, it seems Apple is straying from this ethos – and it made me think of why this…
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Maria Scarpello
Capturing Customer Insights at Events
Last month 350+ WooCommerce developers, designers, freelancers and agencies from all around the world gathered in Seattle, WA for the 3rd annual WooCommerce Developers Conference: WooConf. The schedule was packed with 2 days of talks from industry experts on design, development, user experience, scaling WooCommerce, and SEO, to name a few. This week Patrick Rauland posted about 3 things we…
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Megs Fulton
Going Abstract
These days it feels like we’re living in a golden age of design tools with a new tool or system announced or released every few months. I still remember the dark days of designing before Sketch 3. Back then my Photoshop files were hundreds of megabytes and I had to manually create and export assets…
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