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...
Heather’s leadership at WP Engine has been instrumental in helping the company build an enduring, predictable business, particularly after a key investment from Silver Lake last January, as well as the recent acquisition of StudioPress. Heather also heads a diverse leadership team and has
Not only should anyone be able to use and develop with WordPress, it needs to be accessible from devices of all sizes. To future proof the new editor, anything built with Gutenberg is responsive at all sizes. Mullenweg also made a point of pointing out the investment in WordPress mobile apps
Because you are in a safe, copied sandbox environment, you can safely test the Gutenberg editor here. Take a look around the new editor and make sure the editing experience makes sense, and that any custom fields your plugins or theme have added to the editor page still appear. After running these
The Future of Blockchain: Technology Partnerships with AI, Bots, and IoT
A new group is working toward getting 100 cities to implement the same smart city standards and connect with each other for further benefits. Coin Telegraph offered four case studies on how blockchain, AI, and connected devices are helping develop the cities of the future. For example
Blockchain in Retail: Changing the Shopping Experience
Blockchain ensures supply chain and logistics data remains authentic and secure. This includes overseeing every record and form in the supply chain. That means no tampering. Plus, there is a time-stamped record of every step in the supply chain. Everything is independently verified. The result is
Blockchain Success Stories Show Valuable Opportunities
That flies in the face of the ICO, go-it-alone route that so many blockchain startups have chosen over the last two years, and that in and of itself should be instructive. The bottom line here is if you have an idea for a blockchain solution, it’s best not to try and invent a new market
Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface
Tesla is always connected to the internet and can receive updates through the air. This feature can be viewed both as a plus and as a minus. The good is that bugs can be fixed quickly and deployed to cars in the same way in which a website can change colors from one day to the next. Analytic data
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Social Impact and Sustainability on Corporate Websites
To ensure that your organization appears credible, authentic, and trustworthy, avoid generic or broad claims about your corporate social responsibility, especially when it comes to sustainability, volunteerism, and diversity and inclusion. To say that you are committed to people, giving back, or
The Impact of Tone of Voice on Users' Brand Perception (Nielsen Norman Group UX research)
Each tone sample was written as realistically as possible. The language used came from real-life websites, but was adapted to remove any extraneous differences that could become confounding variables. For example, both of the bank pages had to have identical APY rates, because if one had a better
Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
Learn more is the new Click here. Some of its popularity is likely due to a misunderstanding about how people read online. Mailchimp might justify using a vague link (Learn more) because it follows a very specific and well-written tagline (Make your life easier with automation). However
Placeholders in Form Fields Are Harmful
As we saw, placeholders can be problematic for all users: disappearing placeholders increase the memory load; persistent dimmable placeholders cause confusion when they look clickable but aren’t, and placeholders that do not disappear require more keyboard or mouse interaction to be deleted
Wireflows: A UX Deliverable for Workflows and Apps
Wireflows are an emerging UX deliverable for documenting user workflows and complex interactions for mobile and webapps. They are well suited for representing dynamic changes on one or few pages inside an app, and work less well for capturing flows through a large number of relatively static pages
When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps
Journey maps should result in truthful narratives, not fairy tales. Start with gathering any existing research, but additional journey-based research is also needed to fill in the gaps that the existing research won’t cover. This is a qualitative-research process. While quantitative data can help
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Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants
No one likes to be surprised by some rigid rule that prevents them from getting what they need (or forces them to accept something they don’t want). Explain the policy, but meet customer needs within reason. Mashed potatoes instead of fries? Hold the special sauce? Not a problem. Don’t be that
Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff
When Facebook first introduced the ability to upload photos and create albums, we both remember friends who had mixed reactions. Some thought it was a great way to share their life and keep all of their friends and family up-to-date automatically without the need to explicitly email photos. Others
When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps
First and foremost, choose the “actor” of the story. Who is this journey map about? For example, a university might choose either students or faculty members, both of which would result in very different journeys. “Actors” usually aligns with personas, if they exist. As a guideline, when
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Designing and developing a product often involves a large team of people with different backgrounds and experiences who must be on the same page about the project goals, the user needs and behaviors, and even the component processes involved. This common understanding is often built with
Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability
Many design teams skip competitive testing because of the added expense of testing several sites. (For example, Nielsen Norman Group currently charges $45,000 for most competitive testing and only $22,000 to test a single website. Of course, you can get cheaper tests from Tier-2 or Tier-3
3 Awesome New Apps for 2010: Thesixtyone, Quora, Plancast
Take a team of early Facebook engineering rock-stars, have them tackle the age-old field of Question & Answer and what do you get? Quora, a social Q&A site that is a whole lot of fun to use and a great place to learn things trivial or useful. The company’s goal is to create a
AI Learning Algorithms Find Your New Target Groups
Although the news about AI has far less impact than previously thought, AI will dramatically change marketing. A recent McKinsey study shows that regarding the various business functions in companies, there is the most significant potential of AI in marketing. It is believed that there will be
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 High-Potential Sectors for AI and ML Startup Success
As the world edges closer and closer to an always-on internet-connected reality with the emergence of IoT technology, businesses everywhere are coming to grips with the fact that there are more marketing channels to manage than ever before. The only feasible solution is to turn the bulk of the work
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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
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
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
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Fight Against “Right-Rail Blindness”
Avoid turning the side column into a junk drawer. Have a strategy for tailored content based on users’ needs. Anticipate the user’s task and offer recommendations to match. Don’t display the same set of links or articles across different pages: it undermines the usefulness of the suggestions
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
Customer-Service Information on Websites: The Hub-and-Spoke Model
We conducted one large-scale study to discover general behaviors and usability across all areas of ecommerce websites, including customer service. A second study was designed to specifically gather data for the fourth edition of our report on the customer-service user experience, which is part of
