Mike Shelton

Designer at Automattic, making a little better everyday.

Sharing work early and often



The people margin


Find the right tools for you

Several months ago, after having just read a debate among designers about design software, I jumped on Twitter to vent a bit: Necessary things in design that don’t actually matter:…

An open source test script


Dear Junior Designer

In the US, summer is coming to an end, the weather is getting cooler and college students are heading back to school. I always get a bit nostalgic around this…