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Allan Cole
A Padding Pet Peeve
One thing that I commonly see on websites that really gets under my skin is links that don’t have a enough padding to making them reasonably clickable. Here’s an example of what I mean: In the GOOD column, you can see how since the clickable area spans the entire width and height of the button,…
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marinawoo
Designing a successful IRL meetup for a remote team
Automattic is a distributed company so we don’t get all that much time together. Â This means that whenever we do I am always really mindful of how to make the most of it. Team meetups are one such opportunity: we fly in from different parts of the world for a week or less to brainstorm,…
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Chris Runnells
Our Creed
Back in mid-July, John Maeda asked me to write about my first few weeks working at Automattic, but it took me until now to stop and reflect on how it’s been since I was hired in mid-June. Shortly before I applied to work at Automattic, I found the creed, and knew that this was the…
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Michael Arestad
Code play
I challenge you to go write some playful code right this very minute. Especially if you don’t know how to code. Stop reading this article and go find a playground to explore and some documentation to peruse. Not convinced? Coding doesn’t have to be complex. It doesn’t have to be some crazy set of algorithms…
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Ola Bodera
Fixing the theme customization experience
Have you ever used Instagram? If you did, you’re probably familiar with the filters it offers, that let you change the look and feel of a photo instantly. It’s very easy and satisfying – just swipe through available filters and apply with a tap. Under the hood, each of these filters is a combination of…
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Thomas Bishop
Navigating Impostor Syndrome as a Newbie Designer
Being a designer at Automattic is pretty great. We have some of the best designers in the world building things that help millions of people build and publish on the web. It’s inspiring to work alongside some of my design heroes on a daily basis, but like many other designers, I battle Impostor Syndrome while trying to…
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sixhours
Where Illustration and Themes Meet
As an illustrator, one of the reasons I started working with WordPress themes was the need for a portfolio website that reflected my style — whimsical, colorful, and a bit cute. Themes in this genre were sparse at the time, so I learned how to build my own. When I felt confident enough in my skills, I…
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Mike Shelton
Dear Junior Designer
In the US, summer is coming to an end, the weather is getting cooler and college students are heading back to school. I always get a bit nostalgic around this time of year, reflecting back on my college years and subsequently my early years as a designer. Those thoughts remind me of this sentence in…
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Adam Becker
Artboard bounds
Every medium has it’s tools and every tool has it’s quirks. Like us though, it’s those quirks that either form strong attractions, mild apathy, or even sometimes loathing towards the… tool itself. Once you find the right tool however, things start to just “click”. It might not happen at first mind you. As sometimes there’s…
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Ola Bodera
The Six Universal Experiences
During a Woo design meetup in Lisbon, we spent some time diving into some of our product experiences on WooCommerce (and a bit of Jetpack😉) . Before we dove in, Todd Wilkens (Head of WooCommerce) shared a UX framework called “The Six Universal Experiences”. Though it’s something we all feel we have an understanding of,…
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