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Ian Stewart
Designing Design Leadership
I don’t have a formal design background. I had to learn everything the hard way through the usual methods. Diving into, or letting myself get thrown into, the deep end of the pool. Working hard to learn as much as I could whenever I could. Asking lots of questions. Admitting what I don’t know to…
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Kelly Hoffman
Changing your own oil
I learned how to change the oil in my car before I could drive. Twenty years later, I still change it myself. Sure, I could have someone else do it in the same amount of time for the same amount of money, but I think its important to get under the hood yourself. I feel…
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Filippo Di Trapani
Breaking the silver bullet fallacy
This post originally appeared on filippodt.com. Wikipedia defines a silver bullet as “a metaphor for a simple, seemingly magical, solution to a difficult problem”. Working in product development, I have come across my share of silver bullets and every time they end in the same way. First with disappointment and then the additional hard work…
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L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Money and tech
From optimistically conceived origins and message statements about making the world a better place, too many websites and startups have become the leading edge of bias and trauma, especially for marginalized and at-risk groups. How have so many of our digital services and social networks become a garbage fire of lies, distortions, hate speech, tribalism,…
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John Maeda
Kelly Hoffman, Pablo Honey, Ian Stewart
Kelly Hoffman: Design is now so many things! At its essence it’s identifying and solving problems. / Pablo Honey: Design is a practice that strives for better “(blank)” with the right balance of form and function. / Ian Stewart: Design is like drawing the essence out of something, for someone. It might be a message,…
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John Maeda
Automattic Design × Material Design at the Saint Étienne Design Biennale
The Mayor of Saint Étienne, France cordially kicked off a two-hour long presentation on #DesignInTech in a collaboration between Automattic Design and the Material Design team at Google. Complete context for the collaboration is available on our aptly named microsite: https://materialdesignandautomatticdesigninfrance.blog/ Direct jump to talks by Dave Martin | Jeff Ong | Kunal Patel |…
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John Maeda
Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg
Renowned design leaders Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg have joined the Automattic Design team.
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John Maeda
Collaborating With The Material Design Team
We have a new microsite coming up at the easy-to-remember 😉 URL: 👉materialdesignandautomatticdesigninfrance.blog There you can learn about a few easy ways to learn about the systems-thinking aspects of the Material Design system. So far we’ve posted about the Elevation Table and the Tonal Stairs. And there’s more to come in the next days ahead.
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The Remote Speaker Coach
How to improve as a speaker by deconstructing talks
Guest Post by Danielle Krage, professional speaker coach. Have you ever heard writers share the advice that if you want to improve as a writer, you also need to read? Stephen King puts it like this: “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and…
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Ian Stewart
The story of the story of the Four Planets of Design
Working at a fully distributed company where everyone at the company is working remotely from each other means you’re simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. You’re in Slack or a P2 or video call synchronously and asynchronously but you’re also completely removed from each other. Last year Automattic Design took a stab at fixing that by reframing…
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