Behind The Design Of Elementor
The start of a new year offers a great opportunity to share the journey we’ve been through over the last year, an incredible journey that included the birth of our page builder. In this rather long and in depth post I want to share with you the process, dilemmas, strategies and milestones of the last year, as well as the plans we have for next year. Going back before 2016
To accurately recount our journey, we actually have to start two years back, when all the planning and development of Elementor started.
Like reinventing the pencil, changing the way people design with WordPress is not an easy task, and it took us quite a while, as well as quite a few versions, to get to the solution that suit our vision.
What had made it even more challenging was that our whole concept revolved around making an editor that would fill the needs of both developers and designers. These are two conflicting forces, each presenting views and values that are are very often conflicting.
I don’t think we would have been able to end up with a final product, without the unique combination of two opposing co-founders. One playing the part of the designer (Yoni), the other of the developer (Ariel).
I call it "playing
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