(mostly) abandoned blogs: www.are.na/lucy-pham/abandoned-blogs
I really miss this version of the internet. Personal sites, unique designs, interesting perspectives. It’s still out there, just harder and harder to find.
(mostly) abandoned blogs: www.are.na/lucy-pham/abandoned-blogs
I really miss this version of the internet. Personal sites, unique designs, interesting perspectives. It’s still out there, just harder and harder to find.
I went on an incredible ride around Lake Como in Italy with my friend and co-worker Filipe. It was 120k / 76 miles and took us a solid day, leaving at 9:30am and getting back to the hotel at around 6pm. The loop stayed close to the lake almost the entire time.
It was my first time in Italy and felt like I was in a movie; riding through small villages that seemed stuck in time. It was cold, rainy, I couldn’t feel my feet for most of it, but had a smile on my face the entire time. Not quite Type 2 fun, but close. We took a ferry to make it back in time before dark. It was an incredible experience and one I will not forget.
We just got back from spending a couple weeks in Sedona, AZ. The idea, location, and plan came together in less than two days. It checked all of our boxes: close to trails, decent food options, warm-enough weather, drive-able over a weekend, good wifi so we can both work, and somewhere completely different. I was especially excited to mountain bike.
We stayed across the street from trail access and hiked or biked every day but the day we had to go to the vet. (Jojo had what I thought was a thorn that got infected in her paw, but it turned out to be a growth that she had to get removed.) The network of trails by our Airbnb was pretty incredible so we did a new route every time we went out.
Rides
Hikes
Next time.
Definately going back. It was the perfect trip. We’d stay for three weeks to get an additional weekend, try to take some time off work, and/or stay in Park City a week to break up the drive. It was an insane amount of driving, even for me. I’d also bring a bell for my bike, which I forgot at home, to give hikers more of a heads up.
Claudiabasel is a Basel-based design office focused on graphic and interaction design.
Monday inspiration. Lovely posters in their shop.
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Highlights from the design team at Automattic. Really proud of all the work we’ve done and everything that is in store for this year! Stay tuned for the video reel.
Four years ago, I wrote my thoughts on what makes a good design lead. I thought it would be a good time to revisit it as I recently hired a lead for our largest design teams at Automattic. During the process, I made an important shift inspired by a conversation with Matt. (Happy Birthday!)
Instead of hiring someone who I think would be a great person that could work for me, I looked for someone that I would be excited to work for. Someone I can learn and grow from, along with the team they will lead. We won’t improve our products, our designs, our organization, or ourselves, if we aren’t hiring and surrounding ourselves by people who are markedly better.
There’s also the very real fact of keeping great people. We now know that, by in large, people don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad managers. A great lead is someone you are excited to work for. Regardless if that person works for you or you work for them.
A great design lead:
If you ever find yourself asking the question “how can we increase Daily Active Users?” instead of “how can we make our product better for people?”, you’ve already lost. Metrics are trailing indicators of qualitative improvements or degradations you’ve made for your customers… they are not the point of the work.
From Mike Davidson on One year at Microsoft
Pavement, gravel, & dirt.
Ferry rides. Hot chocolate, hot dog.
Hills, aching quads. 3 jackets.
Biography of X.
A real camera.
Happy 24.
Designed by George Nelson & Associates in 1960, this art was used on the cover of a brochure introducing customers to “Eames chairs for the office”. Herman Miller is selling the poster, and I thought it would be fun to try and recreate it within WordPress using blocks. Not bad if you view it full size.
Proud of the team for designing tons of amazing themes & countless improvements to WordPress. Love how it all comes together to make the web a more beautiful place. Wild how far we’ve come.