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Ballio Chan
Designing An Animated Video For Automattic’s P2 Collaboration Platform
P2 is the lifeblood of Automattic’s fully-distributed work culture. P2 is not just a tool we use, it’s become something we do, each and every day; sharing, discussing, reviewing and collaborating with our teams. No interruptions, no time zone constraints. It’s the key to our communication. When it came time to share P2’s newest incarnation…
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Takashi Irie
Crafting Block Patterns
There is currently a lot of excitement surrounding the block patterns that debuted in WordPress 5.5. A block pattern—pattern for short—is a predefined block layout; a collection of blocks or, occasionally, even a single block can make up a pattern. Think of it as a pre-made, artful chunk of a web page that you can…
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Dan Hauk
Behind Every Great Designer, There is a Great Desk!
One of the great things about working for a 100% distributed company like Automattic is the freedom to choose where you do your work. Whether working from a home office, living room, coffee shop, or coworking space (maybe less-so in this post-COVID world), everyone has their own setup to keep them productive and inspired. I…
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Jill Quek
How (Not) To Start a Job at Automattic
1. Celebrate! Congratulations, you’ve been hired at Automattic! It’s surreal to think you’ll be joining this globally distributed team that you’ve long admired from afar. You’ll soon get to design a well-known, well-loved product and impact thousands of people out there. Feel all the feels! The interview process was intense. The entire thing was text-based…
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L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Automattic Designers – No. 1: Allan Cole
With music, design, and really any creative endeavor I take on, the idea of making “something out of nothing” drives me. The “nothing” here is the often unpredictable process of capturing small, abstract ideas and finding subtle and unexpected inspiration in them.
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Erin Casali
Build effective remote design teams with the right communication model
As designers, we are often very comfortable in working together using the physical space to our own advantage — critiques, workshops, brainstorming sessions, etc. It’s usually part of our education, and it evolves with our practice and experience. Facilitating an in-person workshop is second nature to many of us. Which is why one of the…
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L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Sticking To It
If I wanted a career like his, I would have to seek deeply in my soul.
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Beatriz Fialho
Web Design Inspiration
Part of my job as a designer is to search for inspiration. That’s one of the many ways I get to hone my craft and that’s why I usually cringe when looking back at projects from four or five years ago: I realize my aesthetic has evolved. I work as a Theme Designer at Automattic,…
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L. Jeffrey Zeldman
The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign
Like 90s hip-hop, The Web We Lost™ retains a near-mystical hold on the hearts and minds of those who were lucky enough to be part of it. Luke Dorny’s recent, lovingly hand-carved redesign of his personal site encompasses several generations of that pioneering creative web. As such, it will repay your curiosity. Details, details. Check Luke’s…
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Erin Casali
Small changes with an impact: building trust within calls
Often when discussing about the organizational design of a distributed company the discussion verges on the big things, the structural changes, and the policies. Yet, small changes can mean a lot and send a strong signal in the day to day work of everyone, and help build trust. An example of this is how we…
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