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Tammie
The benefits of establishing a feedback ritual
For the past few months, my day has started with going through the reviews and support forums for Gutenberg (the new editing experience for WordPress). When I started, I wasn’t aware of what benefits this would bring to me. I began out of a need, there were reviews and requests not being answered. The project was…
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Filippo Di Trapani
Crossing the digital divide
Taxiing home after my first Automattic Grand Meetup in Whistler, I was happy to get to know my driver Mohamed. He has been running his family business for over 20 years and also drives a taxi to help make ends meet. Like me, he has three kids and we spoke about them at length. We…
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Ballio Chan
Computer, do my design work.
Imagine you step into your car for your morning commute, then the car starts driving itself. You realize you need to make a stop at the cell phone store, so you tell your car. You walk into the store where you’re greeted by a shiny humanoid who offers you the latest model of its product.…
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Kjell Reigstad
I will never stop learning
Last week, everyone at Automattic got together for our “Grand Meetup.” This is the only occasion each year that all 600+ of us are together in one place. With such a large group, there are many different things going on: meetings, projects, bonding activities, support rotations, and savoring amazing pastries. While there, we also have the…
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scottsweb
Node-RED + WordPress = Magic
We have just returned home from the Grand Meetup, the yearly Automattic get together. For one week the entire company descends on a single location and this year it was Whistler in British Colombia, Canada. We get to choose between working on a project, studying something new or our regular jobs for the week. This…
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Ashleigh Axios
Part 2: To be a design-led company
Learn about Automattic’s journey to become a design-led company and the importance of embedding design across the entire business.
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Daniel W. Robert
Blogging Is Hard / We’re All Imposters!
It’s probably pretty safe to say that most of us participate actively on a variety of social media applications (probably more often than we should). Additionally, many of us went through high school and likely even some college – so we’ve all had to write our fair share of papers. Why is it so difficult…
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Erin Casali
Organization Experiments in Progress
When I started my career in technology I thought the best thing ever was the ability to make things work, so I started learning multiple programming language and building things. I then realized people using my software were having problems, so my next guess was to learn graphic design. Better, but something was still off:…
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Eduardo Villuendas
Intentando abrazar mis diferencias culturales
Would you like to read this post in English? Google Translate does a pretty good job translating it! En los últimos meses he estado pensando mucho en cómo podría utilizar mejor mi trasfondo cultural a la hora de diseñar interfaces de usuario. Verás: al empezar a diseñar algo, una de las primeras cosas que suele…
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Jan Cavan Boulas
Contributing to Gridicons
Designing an icon might appear super easy, perhaps because of the size of it, some people may think there’s only minimal work involved. Very recently, I was working on a set of icons for WordPress.com’s Reader. For the uninitiated, Reader is a tool for you to be able follow all your favorite sites (even ones…
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