Joshua Wold

Or, another title could be, my quest for my perfect backpack. For quite a few years I've tried backpacks of all types. It's a funny hobby for me to research different backpacks and see what makes the most sense for me. I wrote previously about a

I'm just a few weeks into a new job, and I have a few observations I want to share. I've been inspired by a new book, It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work. This book, combined with Deep Work, has encouraged me to

Tomorrow I'll be starting a new job at Automattic as a Product Designer. I'm both excited and reflective as I think about what's ahead in 2019 and beyond. For the past 3 1/2 years I've worked full-time at XWP. I started

Over the past few years I've been privileged to work with some amazing designers and engineers! When you can bring design and engineering together in a true partnership, great things can happen. If either of them are treated as second class citizens, you'll fall into deep

Since January 2017 I've been an iPad Pro user. For a short period I even made it my primary computer. It's become one of the most important tools I have as a Product Designer. Each week I use it to create sketches during the research and

WordPress 5.0 has finally launched. It's been a long time coming, and provides a huge update and change to how the editor works in WordPress. I was privileged to be able to contribute to this release, spending several months in 2017 contributing to design ideas and concepts

In 2016 our team at XWP was able to work with the Beachbody on Demand folks to create a new editorial workflow for the content creation staff. You can read the  case study to learn about the work that was done. During this process I was covering the role of

You can check out the original Trac issue. This was such an eye opening feature for me. Several of my team members were discussing the the need to save drafts in the Customizer. I got pulled in and was able to lend UI/UX support to the project. Over the

I spoke about this at WordCamp Seattle 2018, but I wanted to dive into a short post to talk about some of the contributions I've been able to make. Since 2016 I've been involved in one way or another, helping out in a number of issues

On November 11, 2018 I was able to speak at  WordCamp Seattle on my experience contributing to WordPress Core as a non-developer. In 2017 I wrote about my initial experience, and now now I'll be planning to expand on what's happened since. Let me tell you,