Lions and Tigers and Errors, Oh My! Redesigning the Gatsby CLI
Why did we do this study? Our command-line interface (CLI) is OK but not great. It will be useful to generate a set of design principles to…
Shannon Soper on May 21, 2019
Shannon Soper
UX designer and educational psychology, music, & art fan. Keeps up with her dog's Instagram fans @dgtrwatson.
@shannonb_uxImprovements to Plugin Authoring Experience
We recently interviewed authors of popular Gatsby plugins; here's what we learned and how we're changing to support plugin authors! Stats on…
Shannon Soper on April 24, 2019
How we tested prototypes for the new gatsbyjs.org homepage
Our current gatsbyjs.org homepage is getting a bit long in the tooth -- our incredible designer @fk built it out a year and a half ago…
Shannon Soper on March 10, 2019
Results from .org messaging survey are in
Recently, we sent out a survey asking people in the Gatsby community how they would define Gatsby and what they value most about Gatsby. The…
Shannon Soper on March 4, 2019
How to Build a Website with React
What is React? React is a fantastic and wildly popular tool for building websites and apps. It creates a world where JavaScript and HTML…
Shannon Soper on January 15, 2019
How Gatsby does high-impact, low-effort UX research (and you can too!)
What this article is about: Recently, I gave a talk with this same title at Gatsby Days in the San Francisco Bay area ( watch and listen to…
Shannon Soper on December 30, 2018
Uptick in docs contributions for Gatsby Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest docs explosion! Since October 1st -- the start of Hacktoberfest -- the Gatsby OSS community has seen a huge uptick in docs…
Shannon Soper on October 11, 2018
Using Decoupled Drupal with Gatsby
Why use Drupal + Gatsby together? Kyle Mathews is presenting on “Gatsby + Drupal” at Decoupled Drupal Days NYC this Saturday; for those…
Shannon Soper on August 12, 2018
Introducing the Docs IA Redesign
We've been working on a new design for the docs sidebar. You can see it live on at www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/ ! And here's the previous design…
Shannon Soper on July 30, 2018
Why We Created the Site Showcase
We recently finished the first phase of the Site Showcase , which is a searchable, filterable library of sites built with Gatsby! We're…
Shannon Soper on July 19, 2018
Learning how to code with Gatsby
Graphic Design Students at the Art Institute Recently, Gatsby fan Phil Howley starting teaching Gatsby in an Emerging Technologies class at…
Shannon Soper on July 6, 2018
Presenting the Docs Redesign Card Sort Results
What is a card sort? Recently, 36 Gatsby users completed an open card sort to help make our docs here on gatsbyjs.org easier to use. Without…
Shannon Soper on June 25, 2018
Open Sourcing Gatsby Workshops
In April and May, we hosted 2-day Gatsby workshops in both San Francisco and NYC and want to share what we learned and resources you can use…
Shannon Soper on May 30, 2018
Why we created the Gatsby plugin library
Earlier this week, we launched a Plugin Library on Gatsbyjs.org and are excited for you to use it! This article explains how UX research…
Shannon Soper on March 6, 2018
Introducing the Gatsby Documentation Project
People really like Gatsby docs and Gatsby. In fact, we’ve talked about tracking the number of curse words and endearingly pejorative terms…
Shannon Soper on February 27, 2018
Building Sites with Headless CMSs
What is a traditional CMS? A traditional Content Management System (CMS)--like Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla--manages three things for a…
Shannon Soper on February 2, 2018
Building a Site with React and Contentful
A poster of Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh followed me to each new dorm room in college until it ripped beyond repair. I loved that…
Shannon Soper on January 24, 2018
Introducing the Gatsby UX Research Program
How this all started After teaching college-level writing and training sales people for the last several years, I’d been contemplating a…
Shannon Soper on December 19, 2017