Matt West’s Blog

Why is he so against phones?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim,…

A combination of nostalgia and curiosity led me to pick up an old Olympus OM10 film camera.

Scott Berkun recently appeared on the Design Better podcast to chat about the frustrations that designers have working in big companies and how to solve them.

I shared some thoughts over on automattic.design about how I use sketching to communicate ideas in my day job working on WordPress.com.

I haven’t been able to ride recently due to some health issues.

I recently came across an old speech in the rams foundation archive where Dieter Rams talks about how designers contribute to the success of a company.

I love bookshops.

I came across this passage from an interview with the writer Andrew O’Hagan in the FT last weekend.

I was in the capital for the start of the London Design Festival yesterday.

The past few weeks I’ve been working on a project that just didn’t seem to turn out right.

This week we launched Studio, a local development app that makes it super easy to spin up WordPress websites locally.

From an interview in The Observer back in 2021: Each year, he says, seems to slip away that little bit faster than the last, something that always puts him in mind of the turning wheel of an audio tape.

It’s been a while since I last did a workspace post.

On February 14th, 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe turned its camera to Earth and took a photograph from 3.7 billion miles away.