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Kjell Reigstad
On Finding Joy in the Unexpected and Making the Decision to Be Busy
Earlier this month, I attended the inaugural Dribbble Hangtime conference in Boston, MA. I had a lot of fun, and thought I’d share a couple of the ideas I took away from the event. Kelli Anderson showed some of the most inspiring work of the day. She’s been exploring paper as a medium lately, and…
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Courtney Burton Doker
Thoughts on working fully distributed for the first time
When I first tell people that I’ve joined a fully distributed company and now work from home I get one of two reactions: curiosity and delight or the more common look of horror and confusion. For anyone who isn’t familiar with fully distributed organizations, the distinguishing factor from other companies that have remote employees or…
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Ian Stewart
Why I’m so excited about the Gutenberg Editor for WordPress
The other day a friend of mine at Automattic shared the following. So I bought this theme for my personal website and I wanted to make it look nice before I activate it, of course, so I go into the Customizer and nothing looks like in the demo. Then I read the docs that tell…
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Tammie
Seeing humans
This post was meant to be a different one and then yesterday I saw these Tweets by the amazing Mel Choyce : https://twitter.com/melchoyce/status/923249321503576071 I without thinking clicked the ❤️ and liked. It hit me deeper though, it moved me to write this post. In a world of insta-opinions and easy critique, it’s pretty hard to…
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Takashi Irie
常に新しいお客様の体験を見直し続けることの大事さ
数日前、私はJohn Maeda氏からScott BelskyのCrafting The First Mile Of Productを紹介された。この記事は昨年に書かれたもので、内容をご存知な方が多いかもしれない。実は私も昨年に読んだのだが、その頃私はプロダクトデザイナーではなく、そしてすぐに活用できる機会を見出せられなかったせいか、多くのブックマークの一つにしかなかった。しかし、今回読み直した際、この記事は私にとても共鳴したので、まだ読まれてない方のために、私にとってのいくつかのハイライトをシェアしたい。続きを読む
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David A. Kennedy
Staying Positive When Your Product Causes Pain
I make and think about WordPress themes all day with the WordPress.com Theme Team. They control the appearance of a WordPress website, and it’s a heck of a fun job. Most of the time. What I often hear from customers who use our products: “I just want to get it to look how I see…
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Ernesto Méndez
Four Tips for Being a Better Learner in Programming
Being a programmer is a very satisfying profession. You get to create all sorts of new and exciting things on a daily basis. You push yourself to the limit when there is a new challenge. There are new libraries released so frequently that it’s hard to keep up. Life is good. Becoming a programmer, though,…
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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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