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Megs Fulton
The Design Interview Challenge
If you spend any time reading or discussing design hiring the subject of design challenges will inevitably come up. I’ve experienced design challenges both as an interviewee and an interviewer. As an interviewee, many of the interview challenges I participated in left me feeling uneasy. From the conversations I’ve had with design peers who had…
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Laurel Fulford
Styling Radcliffe 2
Yesterday, the theme team launched our first collaborative theme, Radcliffe 2. This theme was a refresh of an existing theme by Anders Norén. Ola Bodera wrote a great summary of our typical theme refresh process. (Though it may change down the road, right now this blog is using that theme!) In Radcliffe 2, we introduced…
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Jeff Golenski
Utilizing Growth Design to create a better experience for our customers
One of the greatest benefits of working at Automattic is that I’m continuously challenged by my colleagues to be a better designer. We have an incredible pool of diverse talent with different perspective from all over the world, which means that we’re all in a position to teach and to be taught. A few weeks…
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Dan Hauk
Finding inspiration in the mundane
A few years ago I hit a creative block. Now, I know this is nothing new. Whether it’s a short block specific to a project or a longer period of burnout, everyone has those times where they’re feeling uninspired. I’ve certainly had my share of times where I felt it since then, but this particular…
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Michael Arestad
Let’s meetup
It’s easy to keep adding features to a product based on the instincts or personal desires of the contributors. This usually results in features or flows that no one asked for or particularly needs. Most open source products tend to operate this way. Fortunately, as open source projects gain popularity, the folks building and using…
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sarah semark
Prototyping for empathy
Earlier this month, I gave a talk at Frontend Conf in Zurich about developing and using empathy in the design process. In writing the talk, I came all sorts of wonderful stories of people designing prototypes to allow them to simulate the experience of another person, from Patricia Moore to St Francis of Assisi. This…
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sixhours
The Support Rotation: My Annual Empathy Booster
In addition to doing three weeks of support during our start at Automattic, every employee does an annual support rotation, putting aside their regular jobs for a few hours over the course of the year to join our Happiness Engineers in helping Automattic’s customers. I had the opportunity to do my support rotation at this…
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gareth allison
“I have no idea what I’m doing”
I didn’t go to design school. Truth be told, I fell into this whole design thing by accident.
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James Koster
The risk of homogeny when following positive trends in design
Trends constantly come and go in visual design. Some explode on to the scene and see mass adoption only to fade into obscurity as quickly as they arrived – remember burning text gifs? Others are slow burners that eventually become mainstays once proven to provide a verifiable benefit. Inclusive design is probably the most important…
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raoulw
Intermediate SVG Icons in React
One of the things Product Designers at Automattic get to do plenty of is to tinker with code. Whether it’s prototyping, writing CSS, or even playing with new tools. And that’s what I normally get up to on Hack/Trash Day – our internal day to work on something that’s not you’re regular job – fixing…
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