It’s not just startups and nonprofits excited about blockchain. Aviation engineering behemoth Boeing is already integrating an IoT-driven blockchain into their engineering operations. Building an airplane takes hundreds of thousands of components, and tracking them throughout the build lifecycle can be a nightmare. Using an IoT-centric blockchain, “Boeing holds complete provenance details of each component part.” This helps by increasing transparency between multiple groups in the production process: manufacturing teams, aircraft owners, maintainers, and government regulators. In
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is on the wish list of many workers in the U.S. and around the world. There is no doubt that happy workers are more productive and motivated. But how can one attain this balance? It all starts with setting manageable goals each day. Being able to meet priorities gives us a sense of accomplishment, which automatically boosts our motivation. Sometimes, we get so overloaded at work that we do not even know where to begin. Once we structure our responsibilities, it is easier to think of strategies that will help us get our tasks completed faster. Stress may
If you were one of those kids who “became a person” in the age of the rotating family pictures inside a frame on an end table–you will relate to this feeling. Remember the real trick to these abominations was to come in the door from school and toss your bookbag in front of it quickly. “Please,” you halfway prayed, “don’t let the friends see my two-year-old-butt in the bathtub.” If you were unlucky, you were also terrorized by these frames in the parents room, family room and the pool-table room. It would be very difficult to study and graph the ptsd these little gems may have
What is Automatic-SEO as per Google’s top search results? As soon as you type automatic SEO in Google’s search bar you will see people ranking for this term. The first result is of an agency that claims to rank you on the first position of Google search results, else you will get your money back. Then you will find SAAS tools saying that they can make your website super fast thereby pushing your position on Google to No.1 and so on. Forbes has written an article saying SEO cannot be automated, and this I feel is the most relevant one. There is another website that talks about Auto SEO as
Gutterman is the president and CEO of Jelmar, manufacturer of a wide range of household cleaning products, including CLR and Tarn-X. Gutterman started at the company in 1993 without so much as a desk to her name; by 2007, she’d become the third-generation owner, CEO, and president. As the first woman president and CEO of the family-owned business, she looked for ways to incorporate technology and data into the company’s business practices while maintaining its mission of making high-quality cleaning products. Her entrepreneurial efforts have led to an expansion in Jelmar’s distribution
Established tech companies are starting to take notice of the city’s stellar economy, too. “We’re extremely impressed by what we’ve seen there,” says Enrique Ortegon, SVP of SMB Sales at the tech giant, Salesforce. “Not only with the number of new businesses popping up, but with the
Chile-based Jooycar provides connected car technology via a device that plugs into automobiles and syncs to a mobile app. The device turns vehicles into smart cars, delivering data about the driver and the vehicle, such as driving patterns, route optimization, and maintenance reporting. This
Melissa Hathaway came across our radar recently when President Obama tasked the former Bush administration aide with leading a 60-day review of Bush’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; a largely classified, purported $30 billion, multi phase plan to address cybersecurity issues
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Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
Developers Set to Use Bear Market as an Opportunity to Accelerate Ethereum Upgrades
The overriding feeling that permeated the various meetings at the Prague conference was that this is not a time for inactivity, and Ethereum essentially needs to accelerate out of this tailspin. According to many developers, the best way to do that is to build on its early success in the field of
9 Blockchains Transforming the Way We Pay, Play, and Work
Look past digital currencies’ nosebleed pricing volatility, and you’ll discover a robust, decentralized, secure database. Brands and technologists are quickly figuring out how to put this powerful ledger to good use. Here are several real-world examples that demonstrate cryptos’
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives
Many sites and applications use popups to ask for the users’ email address before they have even had a chance to interact with the content. Ecommerce, news websites and applications, as well as blogs were the biggest offenders in this category. This approach is problematic because not only will
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When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
The distinction here is an important one, and goes well beyond the narrow view of qualitative as “open ended” as in an open-ended survey question. Rather, studies that are qualitative in nature generate data about behaviors or attitudes based on observing them directly, whereas in quantitative
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen
Visibility of system status The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time. (Read full article on visibility of system status.) Match between system and the real world The system should speak the users' language, with words
Sliders, Knobs, and Matrices: Balancing Exploration and Precision
Your browser does not support the video tag. Video of GIMP 2d matrix controls (Click to play video.) GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) uses a 2D matrix to control simultaneously several parameters that would otherwise require multiple sliders. In this case, each axis displays a different
Dashboards: Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand
Due to the prevalence of people with impaired color vision, color properties such as hue or saturation are helpful as a secondary grouping cue, rather than as the main way of showing groups or categories. Shape or clear visual grouping are more reliable signals for relatedness, and using color
Scrolling and Scrollbars
When pages feature both vertical and horizontal scrolling, users have to move their viewport in two dimensions, which makes it hard to cover the entire space. For people with poor spatial visualization skills, it's especially challenging to plan movements along two axes across an invisible plane
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
If you feel that you need more detail or you have unique needs, adapt the map by including additional quadrants (like Goals the example below) or by increasing specificity to existing quadrants. Depending on the purpose of your empathy map, polish and digitize the output accordingly. Be sure to
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6 Rules for Persuasive Storytelling
Artifacts create a lasting impression after the story has been told. Storyboards, personas, journey maps, and research reports give the audience members something tangible to refer to when the story is brought up at a later time and help them recall specific details. For example, pairing your story
Why User Interviews Fail
Analyzing transcripts is much better than relying on patchy notes or memory. You’ll stay closer to the data for longer, and you’ll be less likely to leap to conclusions that aren’t supported by the data. There are plenty of inexpensive transcription tools which will transcribe the audio
WP Engine Participates in the Day of Understanding
WP Engine was proud to take part in this event sponsored by the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion. Each company was encouraged to customize the events during the day according to the needs, nature, and geography of its workplace. At WP Engine, multiple company-wide workshops were held in
Hackathon 2019 Goes Boldly Where No Engineers Have Gone Before
Additionally, two unique awards are also handed out. For this hackathon, they were Customer Inspired, which recognized a project that has real potential to impact our customers in a positive way and was decided on by WP Engine’s Chief Customer Officer, Tina Dobie; and Warp Speed, a Star
WP Engine Participates in the Day of Understanding
WP Engine was proud to take part in this event sponsored by the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion. Each company was encouraged to customize the events during the day according to the needs, nature, and geography of its workplace. At WP Engine, multiple company-wide workshops were held in
Customer Journeys and Omnichannel User Experience
Nowadays, air travel is a lot more streamlined and enjoyable. When I am away from my computer, I still have access to tools like my smartphone and airport kiosks that help with travel-related tasks. However, the biggest reason for the improved air-travel experience is that airlines use these tools
Decision Frames: How Cognitive Biases Affect UX Practitioners
Experiment with different frames. Try restating your question in reverse terms, or from a different point of view. Taking a few seconds to simply flip a data point from a success rate to a failure rate, or to consider not just a percentage of failure but the actual number of people affected, is a
Ideation in Practice: How Effective UX Teams Generate Ideas
While many UX professionals conduct ideation sessions, less than half employ structured ideation techniques (any of the techniques listed other than unstructured discussion) to aid the idea generation process. This lack of structure could be part of the reason why only 15% of respondents rated
6 Emerging Cyber Threats to Lookout for in 2019
2018 showed us an accelerated growth in cyber threat activities. Data breaches, attacks using malicious software and insider threats were among the most familiar forms of attack. Many well-known organizations suffered from these cybersecurity disasters and compromised data of millions of users
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Serverless Backups: Viable Data Protection for Small Businesses
Backup, disaster recovery and data protection are expensive, especially when it comes to physical backup and disaster recovery servers and hardware. So how can Small and Medium-size Businesses (SMBs), who have limited budgets, protect their essential data? The answer: serverless backups. Before we
6 Brain Sensors You’ll Be Using Soon
Mattel’s MindFlex is a toy where you use your thoughts to move objects on a gameboard. The device is a headband with sensors on each side, as well as wires that that clip to your ear lobes. Thought signals read by the sensors control the speed of a fan that levitates a styrofoam ball. Once
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Fight Against “Right-Rail Blindness”
Users are extremely goal oriented. They look for information they care about and ignore anything others want to push on them. In fact, users have evolved an active system of self-defense against ads. That’s because on the web they are constantly barraged with attempts to capture their attention
Website Forms Usability: Top 10 Recommendations
The usability of web forms is by no means a new topic. It has been covered in general usability references (including several NN/g books of both general usability guidelines, eyetracking usability research, and mobile usability). Many of the 114 UX guidelines for e-commerce shopping carts are
Carousel Usability: Designing an Effective UI for Websites with Content Overload
Today’s multi-image carousels replace the static, single “hero images” that used to be plastered all over the web. But in some cases the mature UI alternative may be a better fit than its youthful, energetic descendant. One reason for this is the designer’s attitude. Knowing there are
