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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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The Remote Speaker Coach
Practical tips for giving talks, and how to get started
Guest Post by Danielle Krage, professional speaker coach. Public speaking is a skillset. Getting better at it is a process. And no matter what your current level of experience, there is always a place to start, and a way to improve. This video post is designed to meet you where you are as a speaker and…
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Dave Whitley
A Design System Approach to Improving Usability through Color
Like many other companies with expansive digital products, Automattic (makers of WordPress.com) has recently dedicated a significant amount of energy into creating a design language system that we call Muriel. This new design system is ambitious and could reach a wide range of products, potentially transforming our process at Automattic. With only a small team,…
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Alexis Lloyd
A meditation on the open web
Come with us on a journey to explore the landscape of the web and get to know the people and possibilities of open source, the open web, and open opportunities.
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Jeff Ong
Automating Asset Creation
The first thing a child draws looks like a circle. People spontaneously arrange themselves in a circle when they need to observe something close up, and this led to the origin of the arena, the circus, and the stock exchange trading posts. Bruno Munari, “La Scoperta del Cerchio (The Discovery of the Circle)” 1964 At…
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David A. Kennedy
Better conversations about accessibility
Great design includes accessibility. However, a delta can often form between the two, especially early on during the design process. Without accessibility, you deny equal access to someone, so you can call it a moral imperative. In many countries, the law requires it so minus it, you break the law. If you don’t incorporate it…
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John Maeda
The Four Planets of Design
Concept by Adam Becker and Brie Anne DemkiwImages by Marly GallardoText by Ian Stewart We call our design process “deep design” per a talk I gave at WordCamp Europe in 2018. It emerged from the realization that by being so technology-focused, we spent a disproportionate time on Planet Deliver. So we needed to consider the…
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A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
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