In less than two weeks, members from the WordPress community around the world will head to Nashville, Tennessee for WordCamp US. This is the second consecutive year that the event has been held in Music City and WordPress community has evolved significantly since 2017. The most anticipated topic of discussion this year will be around the new WordPress editor, Gutenberg. While WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg has stepped out to answer pertinent WordPress 5.0 questions , WordCamp US will be a larger event with more discussion of the new editor.
In addition to numerous sessions about Gutenberg, WordCamp US will be chock full of intriguing and relevant sessions. We’ll be covering...
Are there old shortcodes lingering around, bulking up your code? Do you still have widgets installed that you don’t use anymore? Perhaps your dashboard is full of comment spam. Maybe you need better analytics software or want to start reaching more audiences by adding more localized content
The award itself was inspired by recent research conducted by Great Place to Work, which surveyed about 500,000 U.S. employees at nearly 800 public and privately-owned companies—mostly based in the U.S. Employees were asked how often they were included in larger, strategic decisions, whether they
Surprisingly, my favorite session of the weekend came from Joe A Simpson Jr who brought a refreshing perspective to why accessibility is important. Imagine a colorblind person watching a football game in which team uniforms were all solid colors. Through a color simulator, we couldn’t tell the
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
4 Ways to Enter the Blockchain Industry
The Internet combined with the decentralized framework of Blockchain now allows anyone in the world to start a business. Anyone — anywhere — will be able to execute transactions securely. Before the Internet, this kind of powerful encryption was inaccessible to many small business
Freewheeling Freelancers will Dominate the Future Jobs Market
Today, if you need a 2,500 in-depth article about a niche aspect of your industry you only need to look online, and in a matter of clicks, you could be in touch with an individual in possession of all the required knowledge that’s willing to complete your piece. This sort of freelance
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Before a siege, Blackbeard dressed himself in a dark heavy coat and captain’s hat to accentuate his domineering stature. He strapped pistols to his chest and tucked lit, smoking fuses under his hat and in his beard to create an image reminiscent of the devil himself having just emerged from some
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
One of usability’s most hard-earned lessons is that you are not the user. This is why it’s a disaster to guess at the users’ needs. Since designers are so different from the majority of the target audience, it’s not just irrelevant what you like or what you think is easy to use — it’s
Usability Testing with Minors: 16 Tips
Youths frequently needed someone to bring them to the study. In many cases, the participant arrived with a parent and a sibling. In these circumstances, it is important to note that the participant may not be the only nervous one. Parents may also be uneasy about usability testing if they’ve
Mobile: Native Apps, Web Apps, and Hybrid Apps
Last but not least, if one of your priorities is providing a user experience that is consistent with the operating system and with the majority of the other apps available on that platform, then native apps are the way to go. That doesn’t mean that you cannot provide a good mobile user experience
Top 10 Intranet Trends of 2016
The 10 best-designed intranets for 2016 may be leading-edge cases, but the trends in their design should spread to more mainstream intranets in the next few years. Although every intranet feature won’t work well at every organization, feature trends from outstanding intranets can inspire your
Customization vs. Personalization in the User Experience
Customization works well under the assumption that users know best what their goals and needs are. Thus, it is based on natural intelligence (the users’) over artificial intelligence (the system’s). On the other hand, personalization is based on artificial intelligence (about a user or a group
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Low-fidelity maps are unpolished and often created with sticky notes in a flexible, unrefined manner. These maps are best in an early part of the process. Low fidelity means little commitment or creation effort and empowers people to collaborate, revise, and update as needed. Use sticky notes
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
There is one more difference between you and the average user that’s even more damaging to your ability to predict what will be a good user interface: skills in using computers, the Internet, and technology in general. Anybody who’s on a web-design team or other user experience project is a
Status Trackers and Progress Updates: 16 Design Guidelines
Where detailed tracking information is presented in a table format, ensure that the information is easily scannable. In the Echo tracker, the table columns are too narrow, causing the date and time to wrap. The result is that the information becomes difficult to scan. In the Royal Mail tracker
What Is Design Thinking, Really? (What Practitioners Say)
Some participants defined design thinking primarily as a mindset shift or “changing the way you think.” The words associated with this mindset shift were “new, out of the box thinking” or “different way of working.” Unlike those who defined design thinking primarily as a process
UX Guidelines for Recommended Content
Similarly, users on Netflix could view their past activity by visiting their account information and navigating to their Viewing History page. Here, users could remove items that they felt were atypical for their taste (e.g., because someone else watched them using their profile). (Our study
UX Stories Communicate Designs
Experiences are naturally hard to communicate, especially when they are still at idea-only stage. UX stories are a powerful way to articulate abstract concepts by focusing on the user value that will be derived from the experience. Rather describing the finite details of how a user may move
Data Science Careers: From Fragmentation to Necessity
Over the past decade — the concept of being a data scientist has become a “normal” occupation title. It is no longer an unusual way to phrase the job description in data analytics. Now this to the industry standard term for a swath of data careers. Data Science. Like any career
We get Smarter with the Internet of Things (IoT) and so do Cities
One of the common technologies with a potential to improve smart city services is the big data analytics. As time goes by, digitization becomes an essential aspect of everyday life. Data collection results in an accumulation of huge data amounts and the diverse data can be used in each of the
Is Your Chief Security Officer Prepared for M&A?
Much has been written about what is known about the breach and what it may mean for Starwood customers. Looking at this event from a CSO/CISO perspective, it’s pretty obvious that the systems designed to prevent these types of activities were not actually in place at Starwood for at least the
JS-Kit Score: Turn Your Site into a Localized Digg
Of course, because this is the only page on ReadWriteWeb that is running a Score widget, it won’t have any data on which content is the highest rated site wide. But the ease of installation is what really catches the eye. JS-Kit is building a suite of tools for web publishers that are modular
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A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
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
Sun, Sand, and Software: Why Miami is Fired-Up for Tech
Miami’s healthy economy also makes it attractive to entrepreneurs. According to the Miami Urban Future Initiative, the city’s GDP ($288 million in 2016) is growing ar three percent; almost double the national average. Last year, the city took top honors for the Kauffman Index; a scale common
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Can Hated Design Elements Be Made to Work?
That said, PDF has its uses — they're just not in the realm of interactive information access. When people want to download a report for later reference, PDF shines. Indeed, I use it myself for this purpose. (As an example, see our report on social media usability, which is available for free
Ensure High Contrast for Text Over Images
There is no need to choose between creating a usable design and an aesthetically pleasing design—both can be achieved simultaneously if attention is put toward both goals. When combining emotion-provoking imagery with informational text, ensure that the text is readable by creating a
Breaking Web Design Conventions = Breaking the User Experience
Bucknell University isn’t alone in its desire to stand out and create a modern look and feel. Many websites in all kinds of industries do this, hoping to stick out among the crowd and impress their users. Moreover, when designing a responsive site that works for multiple devices, it’s easy to
