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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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Mike Shelton
Connecting the Dots with Stakeholder Interviews
Recently, I was asked to lead the design and experience of purchasing and owning a domain with WordPress.com. Here’s my stream of consciousness as I began to survey the task ahead: Day 1: > Leading design for domains? Exciting! 😀 > We launched WordPress.com/domains recently. There is already some momentum behind domains and great growth…
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gareth allison
Same same, but different
Same same, but different is a phrase I came across after talking to friends who had recently been on a holiday to Thailand. They told me that, when vendors in the local marketplaces don’t have the exact item a customer asks for, they will often use the phrase, “same, same but different” to try and…
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Tiago Noronha
Improving the on-boarding experience for self-hosted WordPress themes
Looking for a new theme for your WordPress site can often feel like shopping at IKEA. You go to the store, find that amazing piece of furniture, only to discover that it comes all broken into tiny pieces that will take you hours to put together.
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Filippo Di Trapani
Winning hearts and minds: using customer interviews to learn about your customers
At Automattic we use customer research to help improve our offering. We employ a variety of different methods to study and learn from our customers so we can build better products for them. Some of the approaches we use include conducting customer interviews, running surveys and polls, doing user tests, and offering customer support.
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scottsweb
Camp Contributions
When you sit down and think about how to contribute to WordPress as a designer, your first thought is most likely: ‘How can I work on the core software using the skills I have?’. In the WordPress community we are lucky that there are plenty of opportunities for designers to get involved that don’t involve…
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Zé Marques
When did web design become so boring?
I remember the moment I fell in love with web design: I landed on an agency website called 2advanced. I was immediately blown away: stylish intro animation, futuristic visuals employing lots of panels and strokes, blocks of solely decorative text, the avant-gard sound effects, and the quirky navigation that took a moment to figure out.…
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