Last week, some of the most progressive marketers and innovative thinkers using WordPress came together at the 2018 WP Engine Summit. Attendees left exhilarated and inspired to push their brands and agencies forward faster. The theme of this year’s Summit was Breakthrough. Insight into the Internet’s most forward-thinking trends like AI, voice technology, AMP, and PWA energized attendees with the knowledge and inspiration to fuel their professional breakthroughs. Additionally, Becky Hammon, Assistant Coach to the San Antonio Spurs, delivered a keynote speech to help ignite personal breakthroughs.
To conclude the Summit, we heard from WP Engine leaders who offered a look into the WP Engine roadmap. This included a look...
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While some of that spark comes from our roots as an eight-year-old startup, it’s also part of a pioneering spirit we actively foster through various activities during the year. Arguably some of the most impactful—and most fun—are our bi-annual hackathons, where teams of developers and
Shaping Healthcare Ecosystem with Blockchain
Blockchain application will enhance the healthcare ecosystem as a whole. This is mainly by the elimination of third parties and middlemen’s. Moreover, a number of challenges which the industry faces such as fragmented data, security among others can be completely eliminated. The authentication
Freewheeling Freelancers will Dominate the Future Jobs Market
Freelancers are at particular risk of exploitation from employers. In some cases, the scope of their work can be increased with no new pricing negotiations, they could be left waiting for weeks to be paid, and they typically don’t enjoy the same health or retirement benefits that in-house
The Future of Blockchain: Technology Partnerships with AI, Bots, and IoT
With more companies looking to undertake digital transformations, cities have also started considering what this same process might mean for key issues related to infrastructure, crime and security, energy consumption, and social issues. As The Hill explained, “Smart cities can reduce
Eartracking: A New UX-Research Method
The finding of gender differences in mammoth webpages was due to a lucky coincidence: we employed the new eartracking technology with a few of the users during our recent study of UX design for children, and happened to include the wooly-mammoth page on National Geographic Kids’ website
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews
Testing typically uncovers additional opportunities for improvement and thus produces an even better design. In this case, fielding a redesign of these few initial screens should allow the Journal to improve its App Store rating from 2 to 4 stars in short order. It would thus quickly pay for itself
‘Our Users Are Everyone’: Designing Mass-Market Products for Large User Audiences
One big problem with failing to define your users occurs when you evaluate the design. If you plan a research study with no restrictions on who can participate, you could easily end up with all your participants being quite similar to each other. This is no problem if your system is only intended
Layered Interaction Analysis of Direct Manipulation (Jakob Nielsen)
The communication principle in the layered protocol model. A communication on level i of the model (indicated by the gray arrow) is realized by an exchange of information on level i-1 . Both the user and the computer will have to translate between the two levels as indicated by the vertical arrows
Tooltip Guidelines
Tooltips are hard to discover because they often lack visual cues. If tooltips are erratically displayed throughout your site, people may never discover them. It’s important to be consistent and provide tooltips for all the elements in your design rather than just for some. If only some of the
Radio Buttons: Always Select One?
For example, years ago I joined Care.com to find a dog sitter for my Cairn terrier, Columbo, when I traveled. After I found someone, I decided to unjoin the service. As I canceled my membership the site astutely presented a page with two radio buttons: one for unsubscribing and one for keeping my
Mobile Tables: Comparisons and Other Data Tables
The National Rugby League’s player statistics were numeric and allowed 11 columns to be displayed on the screen without horizontal scrolling. Note that this was accomplished by using only the logo of the opposing team in the first column and the abbreviation for the statistics in the column
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
8 Steps to Prepare for the Holiday Shopping Season
A website is like a house with a thousand front doors: visitors can enter anywhere. The homepage is typically the main entry point, so you should definitely check to ensure that you don't commit common mistakes in homepage design. But users arrive at many other pages as well, and even if you've
Five User Requirements for Online Ads
This exercise can be applied more broadly to all of the ad types: the greater the number of expectations violated, the greater the likelihood that the ad will be hated. On that same note, the fewer requirements violated, the greater the likelihood the ad will be tolerated. Thus, if UX practitioners
Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design: How the Trend Slowly Makes Users Less Efficient
Here’s the bad news: Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience states that “users spend most of their time on other websites than your site.” Learned behavior and expectations transfer from site to site, so even if your site doesn’t use a minimalist or flat aesthetic, your users are
Dropdowns: Design Guidelines
This small study, conducted in front of a crowd of hundreds, shows that sometimes it is enough to run tests with a single user to clearly illustrate a point. Once you see such confusion in action, you realize that using a "helpful" dropdown menu to save users a few keystrokes can hurt more than it
Case Study: Iterative Design and Prototype Testing of the NN/g Homepage
As new components were designed (for example, buttons, lines, type, hover styles, and tiles), they were added to a master component stylesheet. This process made creating specifications for developers efficient because there was no redundancy; we named each component on the page layouts, allowing
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
3 Surprising Benefits of the Cloud in IoT
Inserting this intermediate layer becomes critical because it reduces the number of direct connections and allows for filtering of information traveling into the cloud, which prevents unnecessary data from cluttering downstream analysis. Furthermore, if this factory only used cloud computing, they
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
Coming to Terms – Why Terms of Use are Critical for Your Company
In order to comply with the requirements of the DMCA defense to infringement, your Terms of Use need to include (a) clause that states you will take down/remove any material that turns out to be copyrighted if the violation is brought to your attention, (b) provide a method by which the third-party
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
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
5 Real Life Blockchain Implementations Outside of Cryptocurrency
Medicalchain aims to use blockchain technology to securely store medical records. Using a distributed ledger for healthcare is a godsend as it allows doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists, and health insurers to have more immediate access to health records, which could help save lives
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The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design
Remember that just because a design technique is popular doesn’t necessarily mean that it always supports user needs and optimizes profitability or other business objectives. In this study, we analyzed sites that are known to employ minimalist design, not sites that are known to be highly
Change vs. Stability in Web Usability Guidelines
Newer Web usability guidelines are likely to prove even more stable than the findings from the 1990s. So far, we have not revised a single guideline that we've discovered in research since 2000. Each time we study something again, the guidelines are reconfirmed. We continue to discover new
Site Map Usability, 1st study
I have often predicted that Internet Explorer version 8 will be the first decent Web browser. One feature request for version 8 is better navigation support by offering a visualization feature that would pull the site map out of the website and make it a standardized browser element. Unfortunately
