Mike Shelton

Cultivating Designer Experience @automattic. Tweets about design operations, product design, design leadership, user research, and UX problems.

[zeldman @zeldman]

We’re looking for great designers to help us meet bold growth and quality goals. We’re a small, fully distributed company with a huge footprint helping people express themselves and earn a living. Join our diverse, global team building a better web. 

https://t.co/icvhC2H2Z6

[WordPress.com @wordpressdotcom]

Good question. What ARE blogs in 2020? #whatareblogs

Thanks for featuring us on tonight's episode, @Jeopardy!

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

@kellychoffman @JoshuaWold See people, this is what I have to put up with. 😂 @breezyskies can you come back now?

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@kellychoffman @JoshuaWold If @kellychoffman wrote a novel it would look like this:

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

@jmspool @automattic, the company behind https://t.co/lF4b5EcVpS, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and others is looking for a few experienced Product Designers. We're 100% remote, so work anywhere you love. https://t.co/mbC3lZOn0M

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

Danielle Krage (@TheRemoteSC) recently led a workshop for @automattic on giving talks, breaking down our favorite talks and teaching story, structure and delivery through those talks. And now we are sharing those tips and advice with everyone: https://t.co/zqnPE1PMWg (part 1)

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

In a DACI (or RACI) chart for a design team, DesignOps should show up as a player for almost every task or responsibility, maybe only as contributor or informed for some but #designops touches all aspects of a design team from strategy to process to resourcing.

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3) With some context of their background from my wife it was heart-warming to see some of them, who maybe aren't considered "top students" by traditional standards, come to life when working with and talking about programming and robots. Glad to see schools embracing technology.

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Just watched how-to videos by my wife's 5th graders about to how program robots. :mind-blown: My observations thread:

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2) They were so comfortable on camera. They weren't all great on-screen talents but not a one showed any nerves. Their everyday communication methods have desensitized them to the common nerves that generations before them have struggled with. "Camera-shy" seems on its way out.

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@alexislloyd You can see titles!? My cutoff is when I can’t see the favicons anymore 😄

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

The @wordpressdotcom design team is looking for a Senior Product Designer specializing in UI and visual design to join our growing design organization @automattic. Interested or know someone who is? Details here: https://t.co/jMUniUurPe

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

Something I said to someone recently about my new #DesignOps role "I still consider myself a designer 100%, it's just my medium and subject of focus has changed from product to people, really no other difference."

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

#DesignOps observation: Communicating in visuals (diagrams, charts, drawings, etc.) improves clarity, comprehension, and collaboration 2-3x. 5 minutes in Sketch to visualize a plan, process, idea can save hours of explanation and wasted time due to miscommunication.

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👌. I’ve had this on my phone’s lock screen for a while to remind me everyday.

[John Maeda @johnmaeda]

“Leadership is accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty.” —Marshall Ganz https://t.co/0O5fHJAB4r

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

Setting up an iPad for my daughter 😱. It's troubling how complex iOS has become over the years. Reminds me how a product's infancy is like a child's: immature, yet simple and pure. *Ask yourself: How do we sustain that child-like innocence and simplicity as our product matures?*

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OH: To be clear a picture of stickies on a wall doesn't tell the reviewer anything. Showing process is good and evidence is great, but have a point to it and show how those sticky notes and your involvement in that process led to results.

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Advice to designers when creating case studies: Yes, have them, they're excellent. However, make them 75% shorter than you think they need to be. Be succinct, bias towards *clear* visuals over verbose explanations.

[Mike Shelton @themikeshelton]

@DaveLaFontaine @jmspool @automattic @wordpressdotcom @sembramedia That’s great to hear, remote work is near to our heart, obviously. Sure, DM me if you have questions about the role.