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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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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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