Visual Data Using the WordPress API

WordPress 4.7’s integrated REST API just gave us easy access to the public data of millions of sites. We, as designers, can now structure that data in visual ways to build creative solutions, and encourage thought. Let’s learn about APIs, how we can use them, and what we can do with the data that’s available to us from a design perspective.

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1. Visual Data Using the WordPress API Cate Huston | John Maeda | Mark Uraine
2. Visual Data Using the WordPress API
3. What are you building with WordPress?
4. Online Store Blog Website Portfolio WordPress + Themes + Plugins =
5. MySQL + PHP + HTML/CSS Javascript WordPress
6. Visual Data iOS App Game Android App Visual Data Web App Intranet Storybook Photo App MySQL + PHP + API + Javascript React Angular Processing Ember Knockout Java R FluxC = WordPress
7. What are you building with WordPress? on
8. A quick survey to see some dataviz happen in real time. What’s the most important part of a website? (1 or 2 word answer) https://wpuxtesting.com/wceu
9. USER NEED (my answer, in case you’re curious)
10. WP REST API developer.wordpress.org/rest-api JavaScript p5js.org
11. Survey results (I love that someone commented ‘beard’)
12. MOBILE
13. FluxC github.com/wordpress-mobile/ WordPress-FluxC-Android Mobile is about components.
14. AZTEC The new native editor for WordPress Mobile Apps.
15. PROCESSING processing.org
16. “Life is art all the time.”
17. Bringing the world of coding together with the world of design is one way innovation can happen.
18. Thank you. Cate Huston | John Maeda | Mark Uraine @catehstn @johnmaeda @mapk