Jay Koster sums up one of our team’s mantras, “Clouds and Mud.”
…our team affectionately refers to this challenge of high-level thinking and low-level acting as “clouds and mud”. It sounds cliché, but it summarises the mental exercises designers working in this space have to do.
My favorite line from Jay’s post is this little bit of alliteration:
It’s all too easy to get distracted by the worms and the weeds.
Kjell has consistently been a driving force within the WordPress world. His latest experiment is like a looking glass towards what is nearly possible with the WordPress block editor.
Beatriz Fialho has posted some designs she’s been working on to update the WordPress.org News blog, which has been mostly stagnant for years. Her new designs are full of freshly vibrant colors and feelings. Give it a look and let everyone know what you think.
Here’s a couple of quick sketches for a 404 (page not found) error on WordPress.org in the style of old jazz album covers.
I’ve had these Sennheiser headphones for about 3 years, and I just learned that the volume toggle is also a button. Its definitely a clever interface, but it’s not at all obvious. I also imagine its more costly and likely to fail than just having a separate button.
This is the web’s equivalent of those old rotary telephones.
I’m user #572 on Dribbble, with my account created on Jan 19, 2010. Thats kind of cool. Scrolling through this list is like a who’s who of 2010 web design.
Here’s a design I made that walks people through filling out the necessary information to submit their block pattern to the WordPress.org directory.
In a few weeks, I’ll have worked at Automattic for 10 years. That is just about a third of my life, and the majority of my career as a designer. And here’s the thing, I could see myself doing this for another 10 years.
Looking for a job? automattic.com/work-with-us
Took a little detour today and tried to help with some improvements to the media uploader in WordPress, specifically a new button that will let you quickly copy the URL for a file that you just uploaded.
This is related to the following WordPress Core issue: Add a copy-link button at the media upload page