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Jeffikus
On Digital Readiness
Dictionary.com defines being ready as, completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use Something I enjoy doing on weekends, is visiting coffee shops (without my laptop) and having conversations with people. I particularly enjoy talking with the Baristas and the store owners.
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Thomas Bishop
How my former life as a musician prepared me for design
I have always had a fascination with the cross-section of art and computers. One of my finest memories as a kid – circa the mid-1990s – was watching my dad, a computer programmer, work on an application icon for his company’s software — one pixel at a time (on a 16 point grid if I…
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Allan Cole
Capturing Your Ideas
There’s nothing in the world like having one of those elusive “ah-ha!” moments, when that great idea lightbulb appears right above your head. It’s like you struck gold but the fleeting nature of any idea means you now have to quickly capture this thing before it gets lost or forgotten. When I have those moments,…
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Tiago Noronha
It is hard to WordPress
Recently, I’ve had the chance to help a friend create her own personal website. This wasn’t the traditional “I don’t know anything about the internet, how do I create a site”, this friend had experience using HTML & CSS professionally. Still, she had no idea how to build the type of site she had in…
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Kelly Hoffman
Little corners
“You loved September Issue? I didn’t know you were into fashion.” I’m not. I just love hearing stories and learning about things I don’t know much about. A documentary about the making of the September issue of Vogue was fascinating to me. I’ve watched it a half dozen times. I’ve always worked at tech companies and…
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Brie Anne Demkiw
The Messy Middle
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” ~Helmuth Graf von Moltke Ever been in this scenario?: A new project starts. Everyone’s excited to jump in and get started. Everything is possible. Only good outcomes await and everything in this moment seems right with the world. You can feel the energy driving the team…
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Mike Shelton
An open source test script
Over the years of conducting user tests my team has used and iterated on our own usability test script. We’ve refined the structure and language, optimizing for objective, unbiased user insights. When starting a new test we’re now able to mobilize pretty quickly, building off our past efforts. A big part of the efficiency is…
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Rick Banister
Listen Up
How does Automattic incorporate “listening” into its design process? Two weeks ago Automattic had its annual all-company in-person gathering in Whistler, British Columbia. I got to catch up with dozens of colleagues and meet dozens of new ones. One of my favorite things about distributed work is the melting pot of perspectives it creates. I…
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Adam Becker
Bot encounters of the human kind
There’s been a lot of talk about how bots will take over. Dystopian theories aside, there’s a fair argument to be made that many of the tasks we currently do on a day to day basis will eventually be done much more efficiently by bots. Some day, maybe even more effectively as well. That’s an easy…
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ashleyvonclausburg
Why Automattic’s remote design team is anything but isolating
I didn’t study design in college. In fact, I’ve only ever taken one professionally sanctioned design class in my life. I initially got started in the field because there wasn’t a designer at my first company and someone needed to do those projects. When I quickly realized that design work was the only work I…
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