Recently a design colleague suggested to “Fall in love with the problem, not the solution” and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Falling in love with the solution is easy because we had everything to do with it — it came from us. But when this happens, it’s difficult to see anything else. Our solution…

What do you see? What can’t you see? What does it feel like? Can you see any colors? Is everything just black and white? These are some of the questions I get asked when I tell someone I am color blind, or if they finally figure it out :) Being color blind is something I…

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…

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…

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…