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How we built a design system storefront with WordPress blocks

A well-designed storefront can be a valuable asset for your working design system. Building on the Atomic Design principles established by Brad Frost, a storefront is a useful way to take your components out of the workshop and display them in a meaningful and organized way. Modern WordPress allows us to build this storefront in […]

Theme family trees and the future of WordPress

Parent and child themes aren’t anything new, but a changing WordPress led us to look at them in a new light. We were looking to create a new design system and site architecture that simultaneously: furthered the reach and standard usage of our visual branding, expedited creating new sites with customization abilities and allowed for […]

Architecting agile transformation in higher ed

One hundred plus years of Taylorism and scientific management theory designed for driving efficiency in production lines and industrial work has left many of us grappling with tools that are a poor fit for today’s knowledge work. Agile approaches have the potential to remedy this and liberate the potential in individuals, teams and organizations… but […]