{"id":5258,"date":"2018-12-12T04:49:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:44:54","slug":"won-automattic-design-award-appreciation-matt-mullenweg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/won-automattic-design-award-appreciation-matt-mullenweg\/","title":{"rendered":"On Winning the FOSS Design Award Trophy &#038; Appreciation from WordPress Co-Founder (Matt Mullenweg)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Folks, I have two amazing pieces of news to share!<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert gray\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Last weekend, WordCamp US was taking place in the music city, Nashville, TN, USA. Little did I know, I&#8217;d win an <strong>Automattic Design Award Trophy<\/strong> in the <code>Best Solution<\/code> category. And WordPress founder <a href=\"#mattvid\"><strong>Matt Mullenweg<\/strong><\/a>, in his State of the Word talk, would ask for a round of applause, calling my open source work <em>&#8220;very impressive!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, because that <em>is<\/em> what just happened. And I am beyond humbled by this and by all the congratulatory messages I have been receiving from many, many developers and companies in the community.<\/p>\n<p><em>Want to play just that part of Matt&#8217;s SOTW <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2018\/12\/state-of-the-word-2018\/\">talk<\/a> for context?<\/em><br \/>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"postcontents full dark\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<a name=\"#mattvid\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matt Mullenweg Founder of WordPress Appreciating Ahmad Awais in his SOTW Talk\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/305334497?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"postcontents wrapper\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That was, you guessed it, wow! \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>Appreciation is important for any open source project and developer. If you or your company benefits from open source, then be like Matt. Reach out and show your appreciation. Just do it. It was super kind of Matt to appreciate my work. Believe me, I lost a kg or two listening to that talk and hearing everyone cheer for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now let&#8217;s talk about that trophy thing I mentioned.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"%f0%9f%8f%86\">\ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"#%f0%9f%8f%86\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"winning-the-automattic-design-award-trophy\">Winning the Automattic Design Award Trophy<a href=\"#winning-the-automattic-design-award-trophy\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>I was browsing the newsletters and feeds I&#8217;m subscribed to, reading WP VIP news, and I found out that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnmaeda\">John Maeda<\/a>, <em>Head of Computational Design &amp; Inclusion at Automattic<\/em>, had announced the Automattic Design Award. And the trophy, well, see for yourself.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"postcontents full\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/305851375?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"postcontents wrapper\">\n<blockquote><p>The 2018 Automattic Design Award trophy has been \u201cgrown\u201d with an algorithm programmed and designed by Nervous System\u2019s Jesse Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, whose work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My initial thought was that it was going to be something about Automattic. But no, that wasn&#8217;t true. Let me just quote the source:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>What is the Automattic Design Award?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the start of putting a spotlight on some of the best designed ideas out there in the WordPress ecosystem on the eve of Project Gutenberg\u2019s official release. There will be nine awards total, with three trophies awarded in each category: <strong>Best Site<\/strong>, <strong>Best Solution<\/strong>, and <strong>Best Style<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The jury represented some of the best folks in the design community: creative leaders from digital agencies, leaders of design within the open-source WordPress project, and the new Head of Design Innovation at Automattic, <b>Alexis Lloyd<\/b>. Plus Automattic\u2019s new Artistic Director, <b>Eriko Kawakami<\/b>. Here&#8217;s the full list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kat Holmes<\/strong>, UX Design Director at Google<\/li>\n<li><strong>Khoi Vinh<\/strong>, Principal Designer at Adobe<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leah Buley<\/strong>, Director of Design Education at InVision<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cynthia Savard Saucier<\/strong>, Director of Design at Shopify<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeffrey Zeldman<\/strong>, Founder of A Book Apart and A List Apart<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rahul Bansal<\/strong>, Founder of rtCamp \/ EasyEngine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simon Dickson<\/strong>, Director of Platform Services, WP VIP<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monique Dubbelman<\/strong>, UX\/Web Designer at #BOEMedia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hajj Flemings<\/strong>, Founder of Rebrand Cities<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah James<\/strong>, Lead UX Designer at 10up<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexis Lloyd<\/strong>, Head of Design Innovation at Automattic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simon Cooke<\/strong>, Commercial Director at #Pragmatic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eriko Kawakami<\/strong>, Art Director\/Designer at Automattic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ant Miller<\/strong>, Commercial Director at Human Made<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua Wold<\/strong>, UX Designer at XWP<\/li>\n<li><strong>You<\/strong>, via a People\u2019s Choice Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more info, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/AutomatticDesignAward.blog\/\">award&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"%f0%9f%93%a8\">\ud83d\udce8<a href=\"#%f0%9f%93%a8\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"submission-of-create-guten-block\">Submission of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\/create-guten-block\">Create Guten Block<\/a><a href=\"#submission-of-create-guten-block\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>I figured there&#8217;s no harm in applying for the Best Solution category. I reached out to a couple of folks and asked if <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\/create-guten-block\">create-guten-block<\/a> would be something I should submit. Everyone said, &#8220;Go for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s what I did. I have written on this blog about <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/create-guten-block-toolkit\/\">Create Guten Block Toolkit: Launch, Introduction, Philosophy, &amp; More!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"alert gray\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\/create-guten-block\">create-guten-block<\/a> is a zero-configuration #0CJS developer toolkit for building WordPress Gutenberg block plugins. The last I checked, <strong>8 out of every 10 Gutenberg plugins<\/strong> on the WordPress repository had been built with create-guten-block, which I think is amazing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\/create-guten-block\">Star the repository \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Long story short: right before WCUS, I was informed that I was one of the finalists, and then on Saturday night, I won this Automattic Design Award trophy for my open-source work. #Humbled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Seriously, I love this dope trophy I won. Who wouldn&#8217;t?!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"postcontents full\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5261\" src=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy.jpg\" alt=\"Automattic Design Award Trophy 2018\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-860x645.jpg 860w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-680x510.jpg 680w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/troophy-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"postcontents wrapper\">\n<p>It&#8217;s the same project that received a round of applause during the SOTW talk from Matt Mullenweg and the audience at WordCamp US. What an amazing weekend. <em>The feeling is indescribable, so I am not even going to try.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I built this project to <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/developer-advocacy-helping-developers\/\">help developers<\/a> find out just how powerful Gutenberg is and get started with Gutenberg development amidst all the noise.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted WP developers to feel at ease while developing everything in JavaScript, and to level the playing field with other JS developers who already have all these awesome tools.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, configurations and integrations are hard, JavaScript is tough, coding is complex, and the developer experience suffers because of all these things. This tooling project, i.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ahmadawais\/create-guten-block\"><code>create-guten-block<\/code><\/a>, has helped over 20,000 developers and has been downloaded over 120,000 times.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"%f0%9f%91%8f\">\ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"#%f0%9f%91%8f\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"thank-you-everyone\">Thank You, Everyone!<a href=\"#thank-you-everyone\" class=\"heading-link\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Open source is amazing. I have been doing full-time open source for a couple of years now. But a lot of the time, it&#8217;s really, really hard. You can easily feel the burnout. Sponsorship and appreciation are unheard of for over 90% of open source projects.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thankful to <strong>everyone<\/strong> who appreciated my work: to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/photomatt\"><strong>Matt Mullenweg<\/strong><\/a> for his ENORMOUS appreciation at this WCUS, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnmaeda\"><strong>John Maeda<\/strong><\/a> for celebrating open source, and to all the <strong>jurors<\/strong> who selected <code>create-guten-block<\/code> for the A8C Design Awards trophy. My <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaedahBatool\/\">wife<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/\">I<\/a> love the WordPress community. It feels awesome to be loved back.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to make it clear that it would not have been possible for me to build, work on, and maintain such open source projects without my backers and partners, who have helped sponsor my wife&#8217;s and my time on open source. You folks rock!<\/p>\n<p><em>The amazing companies and individuals that make FOSS possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude07 It&#39;s an absolute honor to be an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AutomatticDesignAward?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AutomatticDesignAward<\/a> Finalist. Wasn&#39;t there at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WCUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WCUS<\/a>\u2014 I hear every finalist is getting this dope award trophy. Waiting to receive mine.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/automattic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Automattic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnmaeda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnMaeda<\/a> @AlexisLloyd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/photomatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@photomatt<\/a> for all the appreciation of my open source work! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tBQts4kVg7\">pic.twitter.com\/tBQts4kVg7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ahmad Awais (@MrAhmadAwais) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmadAwais\/status\/1071772816645738498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Peace! \u270c\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks, I&#8217;ve two amazing news to share! Last weekend, WordCamp US was taking place at the music city, Nashville, TN, USA. 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