Today we're proud to unveil some design changes to the WordPress.com editor. It has the same great features you've come to expect, but with a cleaner, more refined experience -- and a few new improvements, like a distraction-free writing mode.

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Welcome to our new distraction-free writing experience. We hope you enjoy it.

To give you a tour, I chatted with the two people who helped to create it. Joen Asmussen and Matías Ventura are two Europe-based computational designers at Automattic who have been designing different aspects of the WordPress.com experience over the past six years. It's certainly come a long way from its very first prototype: Read more of this post