{"id":1480,"date":"2015-04-16T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2015-04-17T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:57:42","slug":"mel-choyce-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2015\/mel-choyce-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Choyce Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MelMel Choyce<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is a Design Engineer at Automattic. She loves big type, cold brew coffee, and printmaking. Mel is speaking on Beautiful Web Type<\/a> at WordCamp Minneapolis.<\/div>\n

What got you into working with WordPress?<\/h3>\n

I was working as a contract designer and front-end developer, and the agency I was working for started doing a lot of projects on WordPress. I pretty quickly fell in love.
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What do you like best about WordPress?<\/h3>\n

How easy everything is to learn. I feel like I picked up site building pretty quickly, and now if I need to, I can make a pretty robust site in just an hour or two. As a designer, that’s incredibly empowering! The nice UI also helps. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

What WordPress project has been your favorite?<\/h3>\n

I had the opportunity to work on the very early versions of the new WordPress.com site interface. It was super challenging, but it’s come a long way and I’m really proud of where we’ve brought it.<\/p>\n

What’s your WordPress design preference?
\u25cb Starter Theme   \u25cb Free Theme   \u25cb Premium Theme   \u25cb Framework   \u25cb Other<\/span><\/h3>\n

Starter Theme, _s 4 life \u270c\ufe0f<\/p>\n

What would we not guess about you outside of WordCamp?<\/h3>\n

I DJ’d a pretty sweet radio show in college. I did two semesters of electronic music, and one really fun semester of video game music. (If I had to pick one genre to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be video game music.)<\/p>\n

What do you like about WordCamps?<\/h3>\n

The community! It’s great getting together with everyone I talk with online and getting to hang out in person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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