This past weekend, a community of passionate WordPressers came together in the sunny, beautiful city of Los Angeles. We couldn’t have asked for better weather, vibes, and people in The City of Angels. Over 400 visitors from surrounding areas of LA came ready to absorb the rich knowledge of all things WordPress.
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There are so many things to love about WordCamp. The one thing that makes these events uniquely awesome is it’s inclusion of different people of all backgrounds, skills, and interests. This made for a comfortable, safe environment to truly learn and explore the open-source world of WP. Huge shoutout to the speech-to-text reporters...
The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
As voice technology continues to expand and see greater adoption, expectations that digital experiences include voice tech are growing. The Amazon Polly plugin for WordPress, co-authored by AWS and WP Engine, lets users bring voice technology to their websites by turning text into lifelike speech
The results clearly showed companies that welcome ideas from all employees have better growth prospects than those with a less-inclusive approach to innovation. In fact, businesses that successfully create an “Innovation By All” culture see revenue growth that is 5.5x greater than others, as
CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
I’ve done a re-design of my Radio weblog, using CSS. Look ma, no tables! Yes, it’s now a tableless design. I’m doing my bit for the web standards cause, although I haven’t yet achieved 100% XHTML validation. For my re-design I used a CSS Zen Garden design by Michael Landis
Cross-Platform Scaling: The Way Forward for Businesses on Blockchain
Over the past 18 months, we have witnessed a significant shift in the state of the financial markets. Cryptocurrencies, once a niche fascination, have exploded in value. At the start of 2017, digital currencies held collective market cap of less than a $20 billion. They entered 2018 with a
Optimizing Business Decisions With Blockchain Technology
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) is the name given to the organizations where decisions are made electronically through the blockchain and smart contracts system.When a business operates in such a system, it is governed by rules established through open voting with the weight of each
Image-Focused Design: Is Bigger Better?
The homepage for Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is another example of extreme focus on imagery, with its ever-changing backdrops. But a site devoted entirely to search has quite different design constraints that most websites. The top priority on this page is to show people the search box, and
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Store Finders: Why People Still Need Locator Links
Lastly, think about other tasks that might involve finding a location and provide links to the locator tool on those pages that support the tasks. For instance, after looking up information on how to return a purchase, users may want to search for a nearby store if the item can be returned in
3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
Since the implementation of the GDPR requiring unambiguous consent for EU citizens, some app developers have begun implementing dark patterns to nudge users to agree to their permission requests. In some cases, app developers try to couch a permission request as an informational dialogue (like in
Defeated By a Dialog Box
The lesson from this case study is not how to design a better "Save As" dialog. Depending on the circumstances, you could use any of the four designs I listed, or perhaps even design a fifth that works better for your particular type of data. It's easy enough to find out what's best for your users
Dashboards: Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand
Although all preattentive features stand out easily, not all of them are equal. With some, people simply perceive a difference without being able to exactly pinpoint the size of the difference: for example, although we can effortlessly notice a large rectangle in a display containing many small
UI Copy: UX Guidelines for Command Names and Keyboard Shortcuts
Equivalent shortcuts should be available for both Mac and Windows operating systems and users should have the ability to define their own shortcuts, aside from the defaults set by the application. Provide quick points of reference; if a shortcut is available, include the function key(s) and
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
Usability and utility are equally important and together determine whether something is useful: It matters little that something is easy if it's not what you want. It's also no good if the system can hypothetically do what you want, but you can't make it happen because the user interface is too
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Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
For example, one link from Emory University’s homepage reads, Restoring vision and hope. What does that mean? Hope for what? Vision for the future? The meaning only becomes clear when the text below the link is read. That descriptive text is necessary for the reader to understand that the link
Status Trackers and Progress Updates: 16 Design Guidelines
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) provide a status tracker for people applying for a green card or work permit. Following the creation of an account, applicants can log in to access the status tracker on USCIS’s website and see the status of their case. This feature is great to
UX Retrospectives 101
If your team is comfortable with open discussion, you can go around the room person by person. You can also use video and live-editing software for teams with remote members. Regardless of the method or tool you choose, make sure that everyone is comfortable with it. Avoid highly specialized tools
The Two UX Gulfs: Evaluation and Execution
But, across a complex menu of settings, it would be difficult to guarantee that an Offswitch is always accompanied by another switch in the On position just to make sure people understand it. An alternative, better design would use a checkbox, which also relies on a mental model drawn from the
Accordions for Complex Website Content on Desktops
An accordion menu is a vertically stacked list of headers that can be clicked to reveal or hide content associated with them. It is one of many ways you can expose content to users in a progressive manner. Allowing people to have control over the content by expanding it or deferring it for later
3 Surprising Benefits of the Cloud in IoT
Those looking to include a cloud solution as part of their IoT deployments can count on its security too. As the security of the cloud itself is proven further, it also allows companies to more efficiently and securely interacts with their IoT devices. As you will see in greater detail below, the
The Top Futurist Speakers to Have at Your Conference
Lisa Bodell is the CEO of futurethink, an innovation training firm. Her focus is on simplicity, and she talks about how businesses can simplify innovation and manage change, making adaptation easier and businesses more competitive. Most futurist speakers see the coming world as a complicated place
How to Better Defend Against Cyber Threats
Aside from violating customers’ trust, these events are costly — customer data has become a commodity in its own right. Although some breaches feel inevitable, best practices can limit the damage significantly. The New York Times reported that handling cybersecurity the right way — including
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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Steps to Building a Successful and Scalable Sales Process
You now have all of the information you need to create your sales pitch. The pitch you craft must grab attention and compel people to listen to what you have to say. Appealing to their biggest needs and desires is how you can reach your goal and get the outcome you want, and you will be pleased
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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Carousel Usability: Designing an Effective UI for Websites with Content Overload
If you are using a carousel in the hope that people will see a variety of content, know that some people will only see the first frame or none at all. So ensure that important content is also placed mindfully in the IA and on another page of your site. Consider using a static carousel or hero image
Banner Blindness: The Original Eyetracking Research, 10-year research overview
For example, unskilled researchers often ask users to simply look at a page, rather than have them encounter it as part of a task flow. Users naturally look at things differently depending on the context. For example, if you want to know how users look at the elements of a form, you can't just
WeChat: China’s Integrated Internet User Experience
WeChat search results for Palace Museum (left) and for Xuxian, the fruit business (right). Checkmarks indicate that the account is verified by WeChat. But these verification checkmarks do not help identify the desired account, because many verified results may actually be returned. Some of these
