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Designing State of the Word Tokyo: Heritage Meets Innovation
On December 16th, 2024, State of the Word 2024 took place at Tokyo Node in the heart of Japan’s capital city. Its striking architecture, with sleek lines and sophisticated spaces, created the perfect backdrop for an event that balanced tradition with innovation. Oh, and that was our vision for the art direction around the event.…
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Marina Verdu
Illustrating in Figma: Tips and Tricks
Marina Verdu explains how Figma empowers illustration workflows at WordPress VIP, highlighting collaborative features, essential plugins like ‘Blending Me’ and ‘Noise & Texture,’ and practical tips for creating consistent, high-quality visuals across digital platforms.
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Matt West
How Sketching Helps Me Develop Ideas
Sketching isn’t about perfection—it’s about thinking through ideas and making them easier to share.
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Matt West
Designing a faster local development experience for WordPress
Read about how our team designed a faster local development experience for WordPress, with our new local development app, Studio.
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Noam Almosnino
From idea to innovation: write brief with AI
Read how a side project turned into a product feature, and launched in just two months.
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Crafting State of the Word 2023, Madrid edition
Dive deep into the visual direction for State of the Word 2023, hosted for the first time in Madrid, Spain.
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Fernando Pérez
Unwrapping Day One’s new ribbon illustrations
Day One has expanded its brand into physical journals, using a versatile visual language of 3D ribbon illustrations. Read on to learn how the design team developed the brand.
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L. Jeffrey Zeldman
The Next Generation of Web Layouts
Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Who will design them? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing. Where text can be engaging even if it isn’t offset by art or photography. Where text is the point. With well considered flexible typesetting, modular scaling, and readable measures across a full…
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Twentieth year of WordPress, Designed
Read about how the Automattic Design team celebrated the WordPress 20th anniversary.
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Jeff Golenski
Building a Process for Design Research
Good design happens when you understand your users and how they think. Research provides a vehicle for this familiarity, helping us as designers build empathy so that we can identify and solve our users’ problems. Read on to learn how to build good research processes into your design work.
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