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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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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.
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
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