# How We Built Horizon with Design Driven Development

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [October 23, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569 "2025-10-23T20:04:54Z")
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### Author: ![jordan.vidrine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jordan.vidrine/32/515563_2.png) [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569/1 "2025-10-23T20:04:54Z")

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It was extremely exciting when we decided that the design team would lead one of our biggest projects — creating a new theme, which we decided to call Horizon. The name reflects our hope that this theme expresses a more expansive vision for who can use Discourse and what Discourse communities can look like.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development](https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development)

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### Author: ![Harrison\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Harrison\_Johnson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Harrison_Johnson)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569/2 "2025-10-23T23:28:55Z")

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This is the greatest article I’ve ever read. In fact, I’d say the author deserves a Nobel prize for introducing me to the term “dogfooding”.

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development/386569/3 "2025-10-23T23:57:56Z")

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I love that that term inspired you to sign up here to say that. 🤣 Welcome!

To be honest, the term has become so internalized in our company that I didn’t even notice it as anything special. But it really is. If the concept intrigues you, then you also need to read this blog post by one of our co-founders:

> **[The Ultimate Dogfooding Story](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ultimate-dogfooding-story/)**
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> In software circles, dogfooding refers to the practice of using your own products. It was apparently popularized by Microsoft:
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> The idea originated in television commercials for Alpo brand dog food; actor Lorne Greene would tout the benefits of the...