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Mel Choyce
Back to Childhood: Blocks are the Future
Check out my previous post about the future of site building & customization in WordPress. Last month, my colleague Joen wrote a great post about blocks and the Editor Focus for WordPress in 2017. Joen designed a fantastic blueprint for blocks in WordPress that the Customization Focus will continue to flesh out and build on…
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marinawoo
Inclusive marketing
During my hiring trial for WooThemes in 2014 I wrote a fictitious backstory about Woo’s original mascot – a little ninja designed by Jon Hicks. The story was written from my understanding of Japanese culture and unequivocally well intended. Two years later (with Woo part of Automattic) I came back from a week’s holiday to a storm…
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Mark Uraine
The Process of Processing with WordPress
I get excited about the little things people build on top of WordPress. All those things like websites, blogs, and ecommerce stores are really cool, but those pieces of software that extend WordPress into realms few of us think about… those are stinking amazing. I especially get excited about data visualization experiments that can reside…
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Joan Rho
Democratizing Identity
One of the core ideas we stand for here at Automattic is Democratizing Publishing—the idea that anyone with a story should be free to tell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world. We support this idea by providing hosted website services through WordPress.com for our global customer base…
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Jeff Golenski
Staying focused by shifting focus.
As designers, we have a single task. Finding a solution to a problem. No matter what discipline of design we work in, the premise is always the same. A problem exists and we need a remedy. But the thing is—problems are sometimes hard… really hard. Depending on the scope of the issue, finding the answer often…
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John Maeda
June 2017 Digest
Creative Leadership: Critical Thinking Brie Anne Demkiw (#) “Kill Your Darlings” Rick Banister (#) “Remote Leadership” David A. Kennedy (#) “How to Know When to Walk Away from a Project” Tammie Lister (#) “Designing contributions” Design Standards: In The Flow Jay Koster (#) “Designing products for efficiency” Laurel Fulford (#) “Consistency isn’t just good for…
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John Maeda
June 2017 Digest
Creating New Paths: Imagination and Execution Kjell Reigstad (#) “The ‘Smashing Things Together’ Approach to Editorial Illustration” Ashley vonClausberg (#) “Using Stock Photography to Elevate Small Campaigns” Designing Inclusively: The Vital Frontier Joan Rho (#) “Democratizing Identity” Marina Pape (#) “Inclusive Marketing” Designing Computationally: The New Frontier Gareth Allison (#) “Same same, but different” Allan…
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Kelly Hoffman
Should designers API?
There’s plenty of discussions on the internet about whether or not designers should code, but what about API’s? Hear me out. I’m going to tell you about a project I’m working on and how I went from knowing almost nothing about API’s to knowing a little more than nothing and along the way, discovered how…
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Rick Banister
Remote Leadership
I believe remote work is the future. I’ve been working as a designer for Automattic for three years and I worked from home half time the two years prior. Before that I did freelance work on nights and weekends at my dining room table. Working remotely allowed my wife and I to move from Philadelphia…
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Ola Bodera
The Art of Shipping and Fulfillment
Over the last 3 months, we’ve been thinking a lot about shipping and fulfillment on the WooCommerce team. When the thought of shipping comes to mind for most people, it usually goes something like this – “It’s not that complicated. You just mail an item to someone by going to the post office.” Yes, it…
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