Every year our entire company gets together and one of the things we all have to do is give a four minute talk on any subject. In the past, this has always made me super nervous, and this was the first year that I wasn’t shaking in my boots. Progress! The slides aren’t exactly synced […]
Category Archives: Work
design.blog
At Automattic, we have an online design magazine at design.blog. It’s something that our Head of Design, John Maeda created and it has become a joint effort across all the designers and design lovers I work with. Every Thursday we publish a new issue, which involves 2-3 articles from design leaders and a brand new […]
Reblogs
Hack Day Project: Update Reblogs You can reblog a WordPress.com post to your own site by using the reblog button. The colors and typography of a reblogged post vary from theme to theme, but the overall layout remains fairly consistent. I updated the look and feel of reblogs to be cleaner and easier to read. You can check […]
Media
Media management is done within the editor and was designed with that contextual nature in mind. You can add, edit, reorder, align, caption, resize, and remove photos and galleries without ever leaving the editor.
Editor
A whole new way to create posts and pages. We had only recently launched an “interim editor” when we got to work redesigning a new one from the ground up. It was the last piece of the Calypso puzzle and it is my favorite thing I’ve ever had the pleasure of designing. (More screenshots and […]
Fullscreen Mode
I worked on designing and implementing a new editing interface on WordPress.com and my favorite feature is the fullscreen mode. I redesigned it to be as clean and zen-like as possible. I love using it and hope you do too. Happy writing.
WordPress theme
The first thing I did when I got my job at Automattic was to design a WordPress theme I always wanted, but couldn’t find. Its a single column theme that is super flexible. I’ve been using it on this site for well over a year and I’ve changed the font, color scheme, and background photo. […]
Embeddable Timelines
We recently launched embeddable timelines, which allows you to insert a nice list of recent postings on your site. I had a lot of fun styling this one and really like how it came out. You can choose between two themes, depending on what you think will look best on your site. Light Theme [wptimeline […]
Sharing icons
When you set up a WordPress site, you can choose whether or not you would like your readers to have the option to share your posts. You can select which ones to display in a few different styles. I designed a colorful new set that was released today. In the wild Countless sites are using these […]
Just Keep Making Things
I made this poster today. Making things makes me happy, and sometimes its good to have a little reminder hanging on the wall.