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Automattic Design Stories 485

Automattic Design Stories 485

  • Michael Arestad Avatar
    Michael Arestad

    Why?

    Designers are pretty dang good at asking that one tiny infuriating question. In my experience, the question is often taken as a challenge to an idea or even insulting, but the reality of why we ask is a bit different. We want to understand the problem as you understand it. We want to understand where…

  • Designing contributions

    I get to work on the team at Automattic that contributes back full time to the wider WordPress.org community. In the WordPress community we get to not just design in pixels, but also design the experience of contributing to the project.

  • Mel Choyce Avatar
    Mel Choyce

    Building a Site That’s Right for You

    Hello everyone!  I’m Mel Choyce, a product designer on the Apollo team here at Automattic. Apollo is comprised of the Automatticians who contribute full-time to the open source side of WordPress over at WordPress.org. I’m the design co-lead of WordPress’ customization focus for 2017. Prior to joining Apollo to work on this focus, I was…

  • Kjell Reigstad Avatar
    Kjell Reigstad

    The “Smashing Things Together” Approach to Editorial Illustration

    In my role on the Editorial team, I end up touching a lot of different parts of Automattic. I work on learning resources, company blogs, highlighting great users, longform publishing, and brand work, with the occasional theme and conference design thrown in. This sort of variety is absolutely amazing, and one of my favorite things about working…

  • Shaun Andrews Avatar
    Shaun Andrews

    Publishing on WordPress.com

    I’ve been on many teams here at a8c over the past 6-or-so years. Switching teams regularly has given me a chance to understand many of the pieces and people that make WordPress an amazing tool. I’ve recently switched again, joining a brand new team lovingly named Link, after Nintendo’s classic Zelda series of video games.…