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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,

Jonas Downey, from Basecamp, shared an article this morning about his experience in creative work. I agree 100%. You can read his full article, which I highly recommend. "Start thinking about productivity in terms of quality time instead of clock time. You might end up making the same progress

When you enjoy your work there can be a natural bent towards encouraging it to become all absorbing. This can also happen if things are going very wrong at work. Last week I was really inspired by a book from the guys at Basecamp. This, along with the writings of

A few months ago our team at XWP was tasked with the challenge of building AMP Stories in WordPress. We began working with the team at Google to come up with an initial minimum viable product. Following are some of my messy sketches showing our process and what it took