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Maria Scarpello
An Experiment to Gain 1,000 Page Views
As a few posts have mentioned already, the empathy challenge presented by John Maeda this month has asked us to: Speak about how to grow an audience for an existing blog post with the following parameters: Pick a colleague’s post, and explain why you chose that one. Outline a plan for the post to get…
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Tammie
What is in a space designer’s toolkit?
Star date -304979.5527650938. Space designers are landing on planets, exploring, meeting inhabitants and charting the resources. What do space designers carry in their backpacks? What are the essentials to get the job done that you need when traversing the design universe? The planets? Within Automattic a lot of work is going on right now to…
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Erin Casali
I’m just starting! What’s the first step to more page views?
It’s an exciting journey to have a project going. Maybe it’s a side passion, maybe it’s a desire to do something for others, maybe it’s a business blossoming… when it gets online it always reaches a point where one has to face the question “how do I get more people interested in what I do?”…
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Joen A.
What comes first? The audience, or the views?
The goal of WordPress, from the very start, has been to democratize publishing: to give anyone the freedom to have their voice on the web. But what is a voice without an audience? If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? The design team at Automattic often run empathy challenges. They…
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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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