Welcome to the Postdigital

We spent three decades becoming digital, what’s next? We’ve been thinking a lot about how to describe the work that we do, and the work we think we’ll be doing in the next few years. As designers and engineers, we’re…

Discussing Data Visualization with Andrew Garcia Phillips

Andrew Garcia Phillips tells stories with data. After years at The New York Times and Wall Street Journal making graphics, he moved into data visualization for sports superfans at Chartball.com, as well as freelance projects for newsrooms…

Creating Powerful Editing Experiences with Gutenberg

At Upstatement, we use a variety of content management systems to power the websites we build. When choosing the right CMS for the right job, one of the factors we consider is what the client needs from an editor.

Composing Code

Before I get to the bulk of this thread, I’d like to preface it with a little bit of background about myself. My college education is in music, with a BM from the Eastman School of Music in Viola…

Is a JAMstack right for your site?

When tasked with refreshing the brand website of Emergence, an iconic venture capital firm, we realized the framework on which it was built needed a makeover, too. We turned to the JAMstack, a modern methodology that matched the project’s…

Choosing a JAMstack for a flexible static site

In Part 1 of this series, we determined that we’d migrate our client’s website from WordPress to a JAMstack. We now needed: A static site generatorA headless CMSA hosting provider 1. Static site generator: Gatsby The first thing we needed…

In the trenches with Gatsby + Contentful + Netlify

Check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3-part series on migrating a WordPress site to a JAMstack. This is the most technical post of the series: you’ll get details on everything from content models to GraphQL queries. Click here…

Turning the Dials in Elasticsearch

I’ve spent the last few months working on a project that depended in large part on Elasticsearch. I’m a fan and so are lots of other people — Elasticsearch is the biggest name in open source search (with Solr…

Like pigs hunting down a truffle

There are countless ways to find a good place to eat in a city. Yelp, Trip Advisor, and Google Reviews have that market near cornered. The problem is, there are also countless reviews on those sites. Well, not literally countless.

Nudging Editors in the Right Direction

You and I can both tell when a headline is too long. Too many line breaks make the copy difficult to digest and the main content gets pushed down below the fold. However, when web editors are typing up a…