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Allan Cole
Don’t Forget to Eat Your Accessibilitables!
Earlier this year I designed and developed a new free theme for WordPress called TextBook. It is intended to be used by people and organizations who have a focus on education. After launching a new theme on WordPress.com, we typically follow it up by submitting it to WordPress.org so it can also be used in…
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Kelly Hoffman
Twenty minutes with your customers
WooCommerce is the most popular way to run a store on WordPress. Because of the nature of WordPress, we don’t have a way to see how people are using WooCommerce like we could if we were hosting the software, but that’s the beauty of open source. We’ve found the best way to learn more about…
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sarah semark
Getting your hands dirty
I’ve always been driven by the desire to make things. As a child, I spent a lot of my time writing and illustrating terrible books (mostly about princesses named Sarah who rode around on pet elephants) and building my little sister’s LEGO sets (she’d let me to build them for her if I’d play with…
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Zé Marques
Resetting to create
I like to think I’m organised. I try to have my calendar as up to speed as possible and scheduled everything that involves interacting with other people. I keep my to-do list as updated as possible. I use a habits app to track things that I want to do everyday (eating well, meditating, reading, etc.),…
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Brie Anne Demkiw
Designing Your Remote “Office”
Photo credit: Matteo Vistocco “So, where do your designers sit?” I was at a lunch table during a design leadership conference late last year, chatting with other leaders in the industry. This question left me…confused. I finally realized what we were talking about and laughed. I’ve spent the vast majority of my career working remotely. Figuring…
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gareth allison
A Designer’s (mini) Guide to Basic Developing
When I first started out designing for the web, all that a plucky pixel wrangler needed was Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and an FTP client to get the job done. I’m oversimplifying a little, but it wasn’t far off – if you had those programs to call on, you were sorted. I know a few folks who,…
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Matt Miklic
Running an effective remote design team
Around this time last year, I got an interesting call on Slack. Automattic had recently organized its mobile teams into a new division called Hogwarts, and our new division lead Cate Huston had embraced her new identity. I was coming off of several weeks of time off after surgery to repair a nerve in my…
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Jeff Golenski
You can’t create successful products if you don’t leave your desk
For the past 15 years I’ve been anchored at a desk creating everything from marketing material to user experiences for various applications and software. Now more than ever, people can work from their desk and not have to interact with others in a physical capacity. This can certainly be great for productivity, but also comes…
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Tiago Noronha
Get Your Theme Ready for Gutenberg
Gutenberg is the codename for the upcoming WordPress editor. It’s currently in beta and available for download from the WordPress.org plugin repository. The new editor consists of blocks that replace current hacky methods of introducing dynamic content such as widgets, custom HTML, and shortcodes. If you test your current theme with Gutenberg, you’ll notice that…
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Erin Casali
The Perception of Presence in Remote Teams
I often get many kinds of questions regarding remote work, often from an organizational and structural perspective. Recently however I’ve been asked a different one: “I’m a freelance about to start working remotely for a remote company, do you have any advice for me?”. On the surface it looks like a simple question, with the…
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