How We Improved Our Core Block Editing Experience Without It Feeling Like Technical Debt

6 · Squarespace · Sept. 8, 2021, 3:06 p.m.
Squarespace's site builder allows our millions of customers to build their unique sites. All sites are created from our templates, which are pre-built sites that our customers modify to make their own. The content within a given site, like text and buttons, live within small sections called blocks. Earlier this year, the Core Layout team addressed the largest shortcoming of the block editing experience: the block editors didn’t match the modern Squarespace product design language that othe...