September 3, 2025 — Full Site Editing (FSE) is changing how teams build with WordPress — but what does this look like in practice for large, complex, and multilingual platforms? In this session, we’ll share the story of the Wikimedia Foundation’s user experience refresh. We’ll talk about how Human Made is using FSE to simplify workflows, improve consistency, and make the platform easier to manage over time. We’ll cover how FSE is helping us rethink patterns, templates, and content structure, and how we’re approaching accessibility, localization, and long-term maintainability within an open-source, community-focused organization. This talk is aimed at developers, designers, and product teams working on large-scale WordPress projects who want a clear, grounded look at how FSE is being adopted in a real-world enterprise context. Presented by Joeleen Kennedy

October 10, 2024 — Human Made recently collaborated with the Harvard Gazette, Harvard University’s official news outlet, to transform and modernize their digital presence. The project team established a scalable design system, reduced training time by simplifying the editorial workflow, and engineered custom blocks to captivate the reader and tell new kinds of stories — all without compromising on the highest accessibility standards.

This talk will guide the audience through the technologies and decision-making framework behind some of the most complex and interesting features of the new site. Expect to gain a fresh perspective on what’s possible within the block editor!