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Filipe Varela
Gutenberg Emphatic Empathy
The goal for this empathy challenge was straight-forward: re-create a Longreads article by using Gutenberg. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s what the new Gutenberg editor promises: Get ready to make your words, pictures, and layout look as good on screen as they do in your imagination, without any code. I picked the article “Did…
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David A. Kennedy
An Hour with Gutenberg to Create an Image-Rich Story
Today, I spent an hour recreating a post from Longreads in the Gutenberg publishing experience to gain some empathy for our customers. You can check out the video, and see a screenshot of the final product. Here’s what I learned: General thoughts I used the Fashion Blog theme by Automattic, an in progress, experimental theme…
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Ballio Chan
A trial of Gutenberg – Empathy Challenge #2
All Automattic designers are tasked with rebuilding a Longreads article of their choice, using the latest and greatest version of WordPress’s next-gen editor, Gutenberg. Since I’ve worked on some videos for Gutenberg, this is not my very first time test driving it. BUT, as you might see from my sped up video, I am by…
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Joen A.
Gutenberg April Empathy Challenge
“Gutenberg” is the codename for a project to bring a brand new editor to WordPress; an editor that makes it easy to create rich layouts without having to know code. Because usage is like oxygen for fixing bugs and improving interfaces, we run “empathy challenges”. These challenge you to empathize with the people using your interface…
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Andrei Slobtsov
Publishing with Gutenberg
At Automattic, we challenge ourselves to continuously use and test the products we work on. This time we are challenging ourselves to re-create a Longreads article using our new (soon to be in Core) block-based editor – Gutenberg. The Challenge Use the latest version of Gutenberg (currently 2.5) Recreate an existing Longreads post as closely as possible Stay…
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Laurel Fulford
Gutenberg, Longreads, and Climate Change in Cities
Like my fellow designers at Automattic, this quarter I spent some time trying to recreate a Longreads story using Gutenberg, the new block-based editor for WordPress. I’ve already had some experience with Gutenberg, but primarily on the theming end of things. I haven’t used it to set up “real” content yet — all the Gutenberg…
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Courtney Burton Doker
Using Gutenberg to recreate “It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens”
For the latest design empathy challenge we were asked to replicate an article using the new Gutenberg editor. As a fairly new Automattician, I’ve been pretty unfamiliar with Gutenberg so I was excited to spend some time using it. The Challenge To complete this challenge I followed these steps: Use the latest version of Gutenberg…
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Mark Uraine
Testing Gutenberg: An Empathy Challenge
Like so many of my colleagues, I thought I’d test Gutenberg by answering the call to an empathy challenge. We were asked to recreate an existing post with the new Gutenberg plugin (soon to be in Core). Among recording our screen session, we’re also to list our struggles and accomplishments using Gutenberg. I spent about…
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Ola Bodera
Taking the Gutenberg challenge
Gutenberg editor plugin is under rapid development, and each release brings new, exciting features. One of the easiest ways anyone can contribute to the project, is by using Gutenberg, and giving feedback on your experience. And this is exactly what we were asked to do for this quarter’s empathy challenge. The challenge: use the latest…
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sixhours
Taking Gutenberg for a Spin
As part of our quarterly empathy challenge, I attempted to recreate this Longreads post, “Hey, Can I Sleep In Your Room?”: Studying Love with Elizabeth Flock. Beyond copying and pasting the article itself, I attempted to recreate the entire page — site header, content, and footer — to see how far I could push it.…
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