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Mel<\/a> is a Design Engineer at Automattic and WordPress core contributor. She loves big type, cold brew coffee, and printmaking.<\/p>\n Follow\u00a0@melchoyce<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n Mel will be giving a talk titled “WordPress Design Trends<\/a>“.<\/p>\n I’m loving a lot of the smaller improvements to the editing experience. For example, you can now paste a link on top of a highlighted work or sentence in the editor and it’ll make that into a link! It’s pretty handy.<\/p>\n It’s so close to Boston, but I’ve never actually been before. I keep hearing great things about the community in Montreal, so I decided to come check it out. :) I’ve only been to Canada once before as a kid, so I’m excited to cross over the border!<\/p>\n I’m going to be talking about some common and new design trends in the WordPress ecosystem, including some up-and-coming features, like the WordPress API, that are sure to change the landscape. It’s going to be mostly a show-and-tell style presentation.<\/p>\n “Wow \u2014 WordPress can do that? WordPress can look like that?” and “Ooh… Maybe I shouldn’t do that, too.”<\/p>\n There’s a lot of awesome women in the WordPress community I find inspiring and like to follow, such as Helen Hou-Sand\u00ed, Ella Van Dorpe, Rachel Baker, Michelle Schulp, Sara Cannon, Tammie Lister, Cami Kaos, Andrea Middleton, and Jen Mylo.<\/p>\n I’d love to see more incremental updates to the editor (since it’s where I spend a lot of my time) and definitely continual UX improvements to the Customizer. I’m looking forward to being able to handle the majority of site setup in one place.<\/p>\n I also have some personal pet peeves I’d like to see changed, like having comments turned off on pages by default, and adding a media widget to core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mel is a Design Engineer at Automattic and WordPress core contributor. She loves big type, cold brew coffee, and printmaking. Follow\u00a0@melchoyce\u00a0on Twitter. Mel will be giving a talk titled “WordPress Design Trends“. What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Mel Choyce<\/span>
\nWhat is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n
Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n
What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n
What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n
Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n
What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n