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Jetpack promotions in search, and fallout

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
In the last newsletter, I mentioned Jetpack's search replacement for promotions as well as the discussion and fallout that followed. It escalated quite a bit, and then it got out of hand. Jetpack has now removed the feature in version…

A new version of Gutenberg landed…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
A new version of Gutenberg landed this week with foundational work and UI explorations related to the block-based widgets screen. There is also a new, built-in, static Gutenberg Playground for testing in a WordPress agnostic context. There's also an open…

Fast Company published a great feature on…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Fast Company published a great feature on John Maeda, who is head of inclusion and computational design at Automattic. John says "design is not that important," which probably will seem strange and slight controversial at first read, especially since the WordPress…

Michelle Schulp is leading an iThemes training…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Michelle Schulp is leading an iThemes training webinar, "How To Speak Unicorn!" 🦄 If you want to learn more about design terminology and design thinking, check in with Michelle on March 7th.

Christie Lenneville and Patrick Deuley explain…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Christie Lenneville and Patrick Deuley explain how white space "killed" an enterprise app, and how you can increase data density without diminishing design aesthetics. Here's a good thought: "Enterprise designers can take a lot of great cues from consumer design,…

Just another migration story

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
This past week it was necessary for me to spend time migrating a website and helping deploy a new design for it. It was a frustrating and humbling experience that also reminded me just how much of a challenge these…

John Maeda published his Design in…

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Dan Knauss
Design
John Maeda published his Design in Tech Report for 2018 with an interactive slide version and a straight text version. John focuses on three concepts: classical design, design thinking, and computational design. One of his "key observations" is "Design isn’t just…

Mel Choyce explains how to design…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Mel Choyce explains how to design a Gutenberg block for restaurant menus. Mel provides a Sketch file, and if you want to use the design to build a restaurant block, give Mel credit and a link in your plugin readme.txt.

Freemius is launching a “We Got…

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Freemius is launching a "We Got Your Back" pilot program for WordPress product vendors. This program helps clients handle a few additional non-coding-related tasks (including design and branding), along with other features yet to be announced. To qualify, your business must…

Eric Karkovack has showcased an impressive upcoming feature…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Eric Karkovack has showcased an impressive upcoming feature of Advanced Custom Fields. Called "ACF Blocks," this feature allows users to create custom Gutenberg block types without the usual JavaScript. ACF PRO customers can play with this today in the latest beta release,…

Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list of features, but the clear majority of items are improvements that refine and polish the user experience, like styles for checkbox components and states for buttons. About 50% of all Gutenberg downloads have happened…

Notes from WordCamp Europe, 2018

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David Bisset
Design
Another successful WordCamp Europe 2018 just wrapped up a few days ago. The event had 54 organizers, 170 volunteers, 65 speakers (from 17 countries), and 37 sponsors (with 44 micro-sponsors). Out of 2,368 tickets sold, 2,085 attendees (from 76 countries)…
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