“The Nuts and Bolts” is a reoccurring Q&A with Squarespace engineers. Questions are compiled by their peers to guarantee we get right to the good stuff.
At the end of 2018, we made the decision to build our own Image Editor in order to give our customers essential tools and an intuitive experience. We just released a second version, which has several new powerful, high-quality adjustments including undo/redo and a suite of custom filters that are unmistakably Squarespace. This is how we built the filters.
What if tech debt wasn’t always an accident, caused by incorrect assumptions and unexpected circumstances? How would you spend a tech debt mortgage?
Here on Squarespace’s Strategy and Analytics team, we build models that predict customer lifetime value, forecast customer service demand, and even determine how much we should spend on those ubiquitous Squarespace ads you hear on your favorite podcast.
“The Nuts and Bolts” is a reoccurring Q&A with Squarespace engineers. Questions are compiled by their peers to guarantee we get right to the good stuff.
To streamline the template selection process, we released a search bar in the template store. After releasing the template search in English with support for over 100,000 unique search terms, we needed a quick way to provide the same experience in five additional languages. This post describes how we quickly internationalized the template search along with some challenges we faced along the way.
In this blog post I’ll describe the system we built for delivering front-end translations at Squarespace. I’ll describe how translation code is written, extracted, and translated, the rationale behind some of our architectural decisions, and some of the functional and internationalization-specific lessons we learned along the way.
What I’ve learned at Squarespace is that technical aesthetics can be described precisely and that developing that vocabulary to use in conversations with colleagues about the merits of designs can lead to more beautiful systems, which carry significant practical benefits.
“The Nuts and Bolts” is a reoccurring Q&A with Squarespace engineers. Questions are compiled by their peers to guarantee we get right to the good stuff.
Every day here at Squarespace, data scientists are building customer behavior models, financial analysts are evaluating company performance, and PMs are investigating the results of new feature launches. Critical to the success of each of those groups is the Data Engineering team, which processes and makes accessible to the organization all business-critical data.
At Squarespace, our mission is to help anyone in the world bring their ideas to life through our platform. We want to provide a fully localized product and set of tools so that our current and future customers have the ability to create a website in any language using the entirety of the product.Along with the launch of an end-to-end Squarespace experience in Spanish, in this blog post we would like to take a look at some of the major technologies that power our global expansion.
“The Nuts and Bolts” is a reoccurring Q&A with Squarespace engineers. Questions are compiled by their peers to guarantee we get right to the good stuff.