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...
Beyond just being “compatible,” Genesis will play a big role in being Gutenberg-First. That means not only supporting the software and ideals of Gutenberg, but using them for new features. In doing so, it’s our intention to light the way for the countless agencies and developers who use
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4 Ways to Enter the Blockchain Industry
The Internet combined with the decentralized framework of Blockchain now allows anyone in the world to start a business. Anyone — anywhere — will be able to execute transactions securely. Before the Internet, this kind of powerful encryption was inaccessible to many small business
Transparency In The Cryptocurrency Ecosystem with James Giancotti
Giancotti also sees the market becoming more serious. Some of the brightest people he worked with at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have gone into blockchain funds. Giancotti lays out a simple reason why: the future will be shaped by blockchain. These trends—and their customers’
Developers Set to Use Bear Market as an Opportunity to Accelerate Ethereum Upgrades
The second most famous cryptocurrency in existence has had challenges of its own this year, particularly from the direction of Ripple, which overtook it in terms of market cap back in September. This was followed by a dramatic fall in the Ethereum price in recent weeks, but the developers seem to
Split Buttons: Definition
While a split button may seem like an obvious design pattern, options within the menu can have low discoverability. Users (especially those learning an application) don’t always recognize this pattern, so they may not notice the secondary menu button and, consequently, the options located within
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Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
As his pillaging continued and Blackbeard grew in craftiness, he realized it would be prudent to extend the essence of his menacing nature from afar. He devised a tool to extend his message — an early version of the skull-and-crossbones pirate flag we all know well today. The flag served as
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
For sure, anybody who works on a design project will have a more accurate and detailed mental model of the user interface than an outsider. If you target a broad consumer audience, you will also have a higher IQ than your average user, higher literacy levels, and, most likely, you’ll be younger
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
The Need for Speed
Research on a wide variety of hypertext systems has shown that users need response times of less than one second when moving from one page to another if they are to navigate freely through an information space. Traditional human factors research into response times also shows the need for
Assessing the Usability of a User Interface Standard
Given the potential future importance of usability standards, it seems reasonable to study the usability of the standards themselves to assess whether developers can actually apply the content of the documents. Not much research is available on this topic yet, but existing evidence does indicate
The Mobile Checkout Experience
Fields such as credit-card type, address, city, or state can be automatically calculated based on other data entered by the user (the credit-card number and, respectively, the ZIP code). Instead of asking users to type this information explicitly, do the work for them. Our research showed that
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DesignOps 101
I like to think of DesignOps a bit like a curated potluck dinner. There are a lot of components within DesignOps, and what an organization chooses to select — or to pass on — should depend on the current needs and most poignant painpoints of that organization. So, the shape of DesignOps will
Adding an Item to a Shopping Cart: Provide Clear, Persistent Feedback
In our new round of usability testing, a participant shopping on Burberry.com added a coat to her cart, noticed the overlay showing that the product had been added to her cart, and began moving her mouse over to the overlay to doublecheck that the item was the size she wanted. However, before she
A Model for Conducting UX Workshops and Exercises
Activities should always begin with brief introduction and explanation. This can be kept brief (in the nature of a summary) if all team members have participated in many previous activities of the current type, or if they all participated in the same type of activity very recently. If some
Journey Mapping 101
It is important to note that this section is only meant to help your personal understanding and clarification of these terms. It is not advised to debate or attempt to shift a whole organization’s language to abide by the definitions stated here. Instead, use these definitions to guide you
Using Swipe to Trigger Contextual Actions
A complicating factor is that not all applications support this gesture, which slows down users’ learning. When encountering new apps or revisiting infrequently used apps, users will have difficulty to predict if they can use contextual swipe. For example, the Key Ring app for iPhone (an app
What to Consider When Leveraging File Sharing
For example, you may want to see who has looked at the file to ensure everyone is staying current on their responsibilities. If there is an issue related to the changes, it helps to see a version history so you know who made what changes and when in order to resolve those disputes. Or, you can make
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
Why the Free Market is our Last Best Hope for Industrial Cybersecurity
We saw this play out in the business domain a couple of decades back. Initially, attackers broke into business networks primarily for the challenge, or to disrupt or vandalize specific organizations. These semi-simple break-ins resulted in some negative headlines, but for the most part, these
Want to Set Your Small Business Up For Success? Do This.
Some leaders consider values a soft sell or nice-to-have. Small businesses, in particular, are often hyper-focused on the product in a rush to get to market, forgetting to acknowledge the underlying foundation that helps a company run smoothly. But research shows that companies that lead with their
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Importance of Application Software
In tech-savvy times, applications have become a daily part of our lives, from music to data we take help of applications for almost everything we do for example shopping, music, traveling, food and even business. when it comes to businesses, these days they are increasing in size, complexity, and
A Startup Should Take out a Business Loan that Makes Sense
Irrespective of the type of business, you will need specific equipment. It may be IT tools or machinery, but you will need these to make your business operations more accessible and add to efficiency and productivity. Taking out a loan in such situations is a possible decision because the equipment
A Look Back at the 2018 WP Engine Summit | Kill the 53-Day Meme
Kill the 53-Day Meme
When I was writing my recent book on hypermedia and hypertext, I needed a simple way to describe the growth of information for the chapter on information overload. One of my estimates was that the number of available servers on the WWW was doubling every 53 days. In addition to putting this
Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
When users want to shop online for an expensive item such as a house, a car, or a two-year service contract, they spend more time researching their purchase beforehand. Research shows that for costly products, the actual purchase may occur many days after the initial visit to a site. Shoppers start
Low-Contrast Text Is Not the Answer
A low-contrast design aesthetic is haunting the web, taking legibility and discoverability with it. It’s straining our eyes, making us all feel older, and a little less capable. Lured by the trend of minimalism, sites are abandoning their high-contrast traditions and switching to the Dark Side
