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sarah semark
Teaching robots to steal my job
Have you heard about the robot revolution? According to the internet, it’s coming, and it’s coming for your job. As “creative” types, we often feel that we’re sheltered from automation. Sure, a robot can beat a human at Go, but can they pick a colour scheme?
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Dan Hauk
Don’t forget the emails
Have you ever signed up for a new site or product, forgotten about it, only to remember later when you check your inbox and see the welcome email? What if that email looked nothing like the service you signed up for? It would lead to a lot of questions in your mind, rather than a…
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Dave Whitley
Designing icons for Gridicons
Gridicons is our open source icon set for WordPress.com. No one works on it full-time, but it’s a passion project for a handful of designers at Automattic. Icon design is a nice break from regular work, and it’s something you can start and finish in less than a day.
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Eduardo Villuendas
La personalización como feedback
Would you like to read this post in English? Google Translate does a pretty good job translating it! Automattic es conocida por sus productos más visibles: WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Simplenote… Herramientas utilizadas por millones de usuarios, en las que trabajamos a diario (¡y duramente!) para mejorar. Pero en Automattic no solo desarrollamos las herramientas que todo…
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Jan Cavan Boulas
WordCamp Europe 2017 Postcard Design
This year’s WordCamp Europe was held in Paris last June 15-17. A few weeks prior to the event, my co-worker, Tammie, messaged me on Slack asking if I were interested in creating a postcard illustration as one of the merchandise we were selling at the pop up WordPress Swag Store. When it comes to illustration…
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Thomas Bishop
Lessons Learned: Analyzing Data at Scale
I’ve learned a lot in my first 2-3 months as a product designer at Automattic, but one of the biggest things I’ve learned is how to better analyze data and other forms of feedback in order to make more informed design decisions. While designing for such a large audience feels daunting at times, I’ve found…
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ashleyvonclausburg
Using Stock Photography to Elevate Small Campaigns
I had a recent conversation with our Head of Design John Maeda about how entrepreneurs get things done. They don’t decide to make an omelette, open the fridge to find there are no eggs and give up. Instead they open the fridge, see what they can make — and from there find the solution that…
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Allan Cole
Designing for Speed: WordPress + AMP
Speed is extremely important on the web these days, largely because mobile devices are becoming (and in some cases already are) the primary entry point for websites. This will increase in the future. With that in mind, building websites in a way that allows for rapid loading becomes an essential for every one. Succeeding on…
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Adam Becker
Uncovering pillars
A brand can be a difficult thing to define. The concept started out as a single mark or name used to distinguish cattle, then it became a visual method to distinguish a shelf product from competition, then a set of communication methods to nurture connotations, and so on and so forth into the future taking…
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Erin Casali
Redesigning legacy navigation for modern times: the Calypso navigation bar
WordPress.com in 2014 had a big problem. It had grown organically over the years across multiple tools and platforms and was periodically influenced with changes coming from the open source community. As a result, it came to have a complicated navigation system across all its pages.
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