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...
Einer Studie von 2017 zufolge werden auf Instagram mehr Teenager gemobbt als auf jedem anderen sozialen Netzwerk. Die Facebook-Tochter hat auf diese und ähnliche Medienberichte mit einer Reihe von Maßnahmen reagiert. Dazu setzt das Unternehmen bislang vor allem auf KI-gestützte
During Web Week, we encourage our customers to take advantage of this low-stress time of year to create more personalized, dynamic, and better-performing digital experiences. For brands and agencies, this is the perfect time to kick your feet up, re-access, and get creative. It’s the ideal time
New year, new you, did you say? Well, that was our reality in 2018 as we rolled out some of our favorite new platform additions. We took the lead on the Amazon Polly plugin, the first plugin to bring voice technology to WordPress. The WP Engine Digital Experience Platform continued to evolve and
FinTech is Transforming the Finance Industry
As the FinTech industry matures, legislators have responded in varying ways. Representatives of the Federal Reserve System (FRS), for instance, have assembled the FinTech High-Priority Initiative to address their concerns about the industry. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has
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
Emerging Technologies are Banding Together to Accelerate Big Data’s Growth
Thanks to the growth of the internet, the rate at which new information is being released is growing exponentially. Accelerating big data between machines. We are in an age when communication is not just between human beings. Machines are now the go-to for connections between the people to people
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Though interaction has always been important for forming customer impressions in service industries — customers would quit going to McDonalds if they were consistently treated rudely by staff no matter how highly they rate the fries — what’s new is that interaction and user experience have
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Unless you have an unlimited clothes budget, it’s unrealistic (and wasteful) to wear a new outfit for every single occasion, yet social media pressures us into it. Rent a Runway solves this tension elegantly by recycling (expensive) clothes across a large set of women. It’s an example of the
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Brand is a subjective perception of value based on the sum of a person’s experiences with a product or company that ultimately influences that person’s sentiment and decisions in the marketplace. Brand is a tool for influencing choice. Brand is not made of visuals or words alone — it’s not
Touch Targets on Touchscreens
As a new parent, I increasingly find myself using my smartphone as my primary computer. Jotting down a note, selecting next week’s meal delivery kits, shopping online, and tracking my child’s eating and sleeping patterns all need to happen one-handed, quickly, while holding this tiny new human
Tabs, Used Right
Simplest GUI widgets are the building blocks for most functionality on the web, but it's rare to find sites that use all the dialog controls correctly. Even something as simple as radio buttons and checkboxes are incorrectly used half the time. And let's not even get started on drop-down menus
Generic Commands
From the above table, it might seem that move-copy-delete is the superior set of generic commands. In practice, however, it forces you to specify where you're copying or moving to and from. Having 2 arguments per command complicates matters. In contrast, cut-copy-paste employs an intermediate
Touch Targets on Touchscreens
For example, the David Yurman jewelry website included small circular swatches under each product photo on product-listing pages, to indicate alternate colors available for each. Clicking each swatch would update the product photo on the page, so users could preview the color without navigating to
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Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
The biggest problem with most comparison tables isn’t a design problem, it’s a content problem. When attribute information is missing, incomplete, or inconsistent across similar offerings, otherwise handy comparison tables quickly become useless. This is especially problematic for dynamic
Instilling Confidence in Online Shoppers: I Bought a Sofa Online and Good UX Sealed the Deal
After I had selected a handful of sofa styles I was interested in, I was ready to see how they might look in a real space. Joybird used photos from actual customers posted on social channels to show the versatility of the products and how these different sectional configurations might work in the
Beware Horizontal Scrolling and Mimicking Swipe on Desktop
However, because horizontal scrolling is a lot less common on desktops, users often have no idea that they can discover content by “swiping” on large screens. Since people interact with mobile and desktop devices differently, the one-size-fits-all approach can backfire. The key point is that
Hamburger Menus and Hidden Navigation Hurt UX Metrics
Navigation on mobile (whether hidden under a menu or partially visible) takes a larger proportion of the screen space than on the desktop, simply because the screen is smaller. Thus, people are more likely to notice it and use it. Indeed, on the desktop we witnessed many sessions where people did
UX Expert Reviews
Sometimes, the expert review is considered the final milestone of a project phase, where the design (or completely developed project) is measured against its original objectives and, if successful, triggers the next phase: development or launch. This type of process works only if there were
Is Business Headed for a Cognitive-First Future?
Factories are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve their analytics and equipment effectiveness. Cognitive predictive maintenance can help with both these areas, as well as with conducting cognitive visual inspections. Deloitte’s findings suggest that cognitive predictive maintenance
How to Improve Cybersecurity in a Smart City
One survey of government officials showed that 40 percent worry a lack of technical talent will hold back their smart city initiatives. High-tech professionals will need to do everything from managing databases to building intelligent roadways to managing citywide cybersecurity. If cities hope to
Internet of Things Makes it Easier to Steal Your Data
Customers who buy an IoT-enabled product should know that the device will always transmit some data over the internet. It is how they work, and it is what makes them so easy to set, adjust, and control. But there are limits to what data the devices should and should not transmit. Some information
You Have a Great Tech Idea. Now What?
Your first job is to run a competitive analysis. There are already thousands, if not millions of apps and programs in circulation, many of which aren’t heavily publicized. You may find that your brilliant idea was already considered by someone with more time and resources than you had. It’s not
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Images of Fitbit next smartwatch reveal heart-rate improvements
Fitbit is on schedule, as its boss James Park keeps reminding us, to launch its next smartwatch by the end of the year. We don’t know what the smartwatch will be called, though Blaze 2 seems likely, but thanks to leaks we know its design and some of the hardware improvements. Images obtained by
JS-Kit Score: Turn Your Site into a Localized Digg
Widget provider JS-Kit has released their latest widget this morning, Score. Score adds a thumbs up/thumbs down-style ratings widget to any page content, and then aggregates the data across the entire web site into an info box that can highlight a site’s top content. It can also integrate
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Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2003
The search engine on my own site has the same problem: it relies on the operating system's file-modification date rather than the date the content was written. As a result, I've shut off the date feature in the search result listings. Such dates can be very useful, but they do more damage than good
Simplicity Wins over Abundance of Choice
There is tremendous business pressure to tack on options and features to products as a way to differentiate from the competitors or to remain relevant. In designing any user interface, key decisions must be made concerning the tradeoff between feature richness and simplicity. Deciding the
Marginalia of Web Design
Scaling reduces the image so much that pictures with extensive detail wash out and become too crowded to be meaningful. Cropping preserves those details that are within the new viewport, but at the cost of losing the context of the image as a whole. My recommendation is to use a combination of
