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...
People of all skill levels are welcome to join in contribution to WCUS 2018 Contributor Day. The event will be held Sunday, December 9th at the Music City Center in Exhibit Hall B. Teams include Accessibility, Community, Core. Design, Documentation, Gutenberg, Hosting, Marketing, Meta, Mobile
Austin’s Annual PRIDE celebration is one of the largest opportunities for local non-profit organizations, social groups, and causes to gain exposure in the LGBTQ community. This year marked 28 years of Pride events in Austin. This year’s parade emphasis was awareness, equality and
At WP Engine, we’re passionate about creating new possibilities for our customers and the broader WordPress open source communities. By offering the themes and framework in our platform, we’re enhancing customers’ ability to build beautiful and powerful websites, while also expanding the
Blockchain Scalability: Even If Most Transactions Are in Layer II We Still Need a Layer I
We also spoke with PhD researcher at UCL, Sarah Azouvi. For Sarah, the combination of layer I and layer II solutions is possible only if a functional UX can be developed to facilitate it. “Both layer I and layer II solutions are interesting lines of research to solve blockchains’ scalability
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’
How Blockchain Brings Innovation in Staffing?
The communication between them is increased and the data shared by both parties is safe and secure. Recruiters will determine the potential candidates and reach them. Encrypted info place informed blockchain cannot be altered and deleted making certain high security and privacy. Again, privacy and
Modes in User Interfaces: When They Help and When They Hurt Users
Mode slips happen because the system doesn’t clearly indicate its status to the user, violating the very first of the 10 usability heuristics. Mode errors have been a longstanding problem in our discipline, and, especially in complex systems, can have deadly consequences. Famously, in 1991, a
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'About Us' Information on Corporate Websites - User Research Findings
Some organizations intentionally convolute this content to keep themselves open to many different types of business partnerships. In other cases, internal content creators assume the copy describes what the business does, but to an outside user, it means nothing. No matter the reason, if your About
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
Group Form Elements Effectively Using White Space
If form length is a concern, you can place field labels to the left of the text fields. However, make sure that labels are of similar length and are placed as close to the text fields as possible. If the labels are too far to the left, it can be difficult to associate the correct label with its
Defeated By a Dialog Box
Upon further experimentation, I discovered another way of getting rid of the options box: uncheck the checkbox marked "Show options dialog." This, of course, completely violates the design rules for checkboxes and radio buttons , which are not supposed to have any immediate effect when they are
Customization vs. Personalization in the User Experience
The main goal of personalization is to deliver content and functionality that matches specific user needs or interests, with no effort from the targeted users. The system profiles the user and adjusts the interface according to that profile. Personalization may deliver or emphasize particular
User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s the difference?
For example, the claims process may function flawlessly and meet user needs when tested in the lab, but if the information provided in the confirmation email contradicts or confuses the messaging from the claim workflow, the journey breaks down. And if the entire claims process changes dramatically
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3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
Any.do, an Android productivity app, provides an intro page upon launch, explaining the benefits of allowing access to the user’s contacts: get reminded to return phone calls. When users select Allow, the usual Android permission request is triggered. Without this initial screen, the permission
10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Video Games
Confirmation dialogs, like the one in Super Smash Bros. on Wii Switch, prevent users from accidental destruction. This confirmation is particularly important for irreversible actions. Before leaving an in-progress game, Super Smash Bros. prompts users to confirm that they want to leave the game and
Fight Against “Right-Rail Blindness”
Unicef.org: Important facts are sandwiched between brightly colored boxes that look like advertising. This information doesn’t have a chance of being read. It’s better to tone down the visual design to create a more balanced visual hierarchy. Also, while we support the use of the side columns
Beware Horizontal Scrolling and Mimicking Swipe on Desktop
Even if people do notice cues for horizontal scrolling, they may not want to risk loading content that they cannot predict. Content hidden by a horizontal scroll is at a disadvantage because even salient visual cues don’t offer strong information scent: users can hardly guess what information
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
Inline validation can also be used to indicate successful completion. For example, if your users must create a unique username, a green checkmark and a message that the username is available let users know they can proceed to the next step. Follow the error-prevention guidelines: offer suggestions
How To Secure Your IoT Devices And Why Should You Do It
Since 2015, when the IoT devices started to become more and more popular, the technology has been a controversial subject. Recently, the FBI released a statement through which they warned people in the entire world that these devices can be as dangerous as they are useful. Of course, we had the CIA
How IoT has Exposed Business Organizations to Cyber Attacks
Jax Enter (platform dedicated to software developers and architects), says that because everyday items are now connected to the Internet, it’s easy for them to be hacked. This hacking occurs in the same way that your computer can also be hacked. Some erroneously believe that this “side
Rapid Experiments are Key to Making AI Technology Buy vs Build Decisions
Usually, this is due to the emergence of data science teams or the sheer lack of ability of the data science team to communicate with business functions. Hiring a few data scientists does not necessarily give an enterprise the ability to build and integrate quality AI solutions at scale. The sooner
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
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Dancing in the Co-Economy: Are you Square Dancing or Foxtrotting?
Think of the co-economy as a new approach to business partnerships. Focus on more than the on one-off or occasional engagements, or even long-standing, fixed relationships with value-added resellers (VARs) or systems integrators. The co-economy involves working closely with a vast range of third
How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups
Don Ball, Co-Founder and Chief Social Officer at Fueled Collective, has experienced Minnesota’s growth firsthand and has a finger on the pulse of what might be the clearest sign of Minnesota’s entrepreneurial prowess: “Since 2010, we’ve been practically the only coworking game in town
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Usability Insights From Sun Microsystem's 1997 Web Design
Sun's web site went live in January 1994 when there were only 700 other sites on the Web. Our first site ran on a "liberated" workstation and was pretty small. Now, only four years later, the Web has about 2,500 times as many sites, Sun's own site has grown to 22,000 pages, and we are on our third
Top 10 Enduring Web-Design Mistakes
Sites create flawed facets and filters when they attempt a one-size-fits-all approach. The same criteria and characteristics may not apply across all content types. Be cautious in limiting users’ selections to an either-or approach, as well. Furniture shoppers may be looking for blue chairs, or
Working Memory and External Memory
When people use websites or other user interfaces, a frequent cause of difficulty is that they forget information from a previous step even though it's needed at a later stage to complete their task. This is not because users are particularly forgetful. Nor is it because they don’t bother paying
