by Joshua Wold | Sep 10, 2019 | Automattic Design
Story telling matters as a foundational part of communication between people. You can tell stories by writing, speaking, filming, drawing, coding, and much more. When dealing with humans, assume miscommunication. If you’re trying to explain something, part of it will...
by Joshua Wold | Jul 19, 2019 | Automattic Design, Design Stories
For the past few months we’ve been converting WooCommerce widgets in WordPress to blocks. Widgets allow you to add a small feature, such as a paragraph of text, onto your website. Widget Block On the left we have an example of where a widget can be placed...
by Filippo Di Trapani | Jun 28, 2019 | Automattic Design
This week we got another usability study in the books by testing the most recent iteration of our signup and onboarding flow. Thanks to some help from our design operations team I was able to pull it off without a hitch. All I had to do was fill in a request, slightly...
by Chris O'Sullivan | Jun 21, 2019 | Automattic Design
Cowritten with Megs Fulton Many of us design and build apps in air-conditioned offices in major cities, using the latest devices with perfect internet connections. We don’t often think about how apps should work without a strong internet connection. ...
by Jeff Ong | Jun 21, 2019 | Automattic Design, Computational Design
Within Automattic Design, we have two communities of practice: “creative technology” and “product experience”. Every designer falls into one of these two communities. Having this distinction helps us to create balanced teams, as well as sharpen...
by Kelly Hoffman | Jun 18, 2019 | Automattic Design
Recently, the design team I lead was going through a period of low morale. I noticed this through conversations in 1-1s, our team Slack channel, and most notably in our team meetings. The designers were all working on some very big product problems and while the work...
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