Lightning Talks: Designing with WordPress

3 Lessons From Releasing my First Theme

Mel Choyce

Last year, I co-released my first free WordPress theme, Flounder. The theme was well received, but we we weren’t prepared for supporting it after launch. I’ll talk about what I wish we had known prior to launching Flounder.

A Dashicon in 5 Minutes

Ben Dunkle

Dashicons, the icon font custom made for the WordPress admin, could use some new icons. Vote for the next one here: https://bendunkle.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/vote-for-the-next-dashicon/ . In 5 minutes, I’ll crank out a design of the winner, an demonstrate my process and stylistic approach.

Visual Hierarchy

Michael Arestad

Visual Hierarchy. Wacky gifs. 300 seconds.

We’ve all started with a super-cool ultra-clean site design that somehow ends up looking like this (still awesome, but hard to follow). I’m going to present an ultra-speedy introduction to visual hierarchy followed by some tips and tricks to direct your readers to the most important information.

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