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...
Diversity has long been an important topic for WP Engine. CEO Heather Brunner often says “diversity attracts diversity.” This means that as a company naturally attracts and retains diverse talent, that diversity is sustained from the inside by employee referrals. Ultimately, the
We aim to amaze customers with our expertise, service, and transparency. That’s why The WP Engine Support Team works tirelessly and 24/7 to ensure that we provide customers with peace of mind and confidence. We believe this customer-inspired mentality has helped us achieve a current support NPS
Last week, our first hackathon of the year kicked off with more than a dozen teams and respective projects. After the 48-hour build period was up, those groups presented their cutting edge ideas to a packed audience of WP Engine employees. The presentations lasted an entire day, and only after all
When Will You Be Able to Use Cryptocurrency to Buy a Pack of Gum?
The single biggest puzzle that cryptocurrencies need to solve is how to persuade merchants to take the leap. So far, there’s not much upside for retailers. In fact, crypto adds complications for businesses, including the headache of exchanging crypto for fiat currency in order to pay their
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
Is Bitcoin Accelerating Our Global Warming?
So far, only speculations have arisen. It is dangerous to assume that bitcoin mining will be significantly more efficient in the future. It is a 50:50 scenario because no one really can tell how much more powerful computers of the next decade will be, and if they will be able to handle the
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
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff
As with anything we design for, there will be differences in individual users. People will have differing levels of awareness of a product and its capabilities, meaning that some may be further along in their path toward acceptance than others. There may also be individual differences in creepiness
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
When they call a regular cab, riders have no control — hence, all the anxieties listed above. With Uber, they suddenly get all the control they need: once they order an “uber”, they see how far away the car is and how much they have to wait, they know in advance how much the ride will cost
Best Application Designs
One caveat about relying on other software is that it's often best to modify or simplify the user interfaces to fit the needs of your users; because of its broader purview, 3rd-party software often embodies unneeded complexity that it's best to hide. eReview, for example, built on top of SharePoint
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
While it's not realistic to use the full set of methods on a given project, nearly all projects would benefit from multiple research methods and from combining insights. Unfortunately many design teams only use one or two methods that they are familiar with. The key question is what to do when
Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember
Using chunking with passwords maybe be difficult for some people because there are no standard characters, such as dashes, used to visually separate the chunks or numbers or words. While some people can do fine with no separator (such as, “mypasswordisthis”), others may be stymied. In my
The User Experience of Public Bathrooms
Toilets that flush after sensing movement save the user the trouble of coming in contact with a bacteria-laden handle or button. (Many years later, I can still hear my mother’s voice in public washrooms chastising, “For the love of God, don’t touch anything!”). Another benefit of these
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
The State of Ecommerce Search
One example of an improved search algorithm was on The Container Store’s website. In an earlier study, participants were disappointed by the lack of precision in its search results. One user wanted to purchase a set of stainless-steel canisters with clear tops. When she searched for “steel and
3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
Interruptions at the start can be overwhelming and confusing. First impressions are formed when users install an app. Asking for all permissions (like Viber does on Android) is like asking for a donation without telling people anything about the charity. A better modus operandi is to ask only for
Using Prioritization Matrices to Inform UX Decisions
The term “prioritization matrix” is used in the design thinking community to refer to a variety of prioritization techniques and representations, that, technically, do not all qualify as matrices in the mathematical sense. For the sake of consistency, we use the same term although sometimes our
UX Research Cheat Sheet
When deciding where to start or what to focus on first, use some of these top UX methods. Some methods may be more appropriate than others, depending on time constraints, system maturity, type of product or service, and the current top concerns. It’s a good idea to use different or alternating
Adding an Item to a Shopping Cart: Provide Clear, Persistent Feedback
The mobile site of Buddhiboxes.com showed a cart icon, the number of items in the cart, and the running subtotal, proving that displaying all these details is possible even on a small screen. Users were provided with useful, easily recognizable information; the larger shopping-cart target area was
CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
The hardest thing about the re-design was integrating the tableless CSS design into Radio Userland. I had to do some jiggery-pokery with the Radio Userland templates and macros, and the CSS implementation is not yet complete. I’ve had to temporarily remove my blogroll and topicroll, along
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
Serverless Backups: Viable Data Protection for Small Businesses
Serverless backup, as the term implies, is the practice of creating backups without any physical servers. This technology leverages the cloud computing model of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). In this cloud computing model, the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) offers the server while the SMB stores
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
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
20 Exciting Business Ideas that you can Start for 10k or Less
You can start your own online teaching business. All you have to do is get an affordable tool that will host your entire online learning materials and then start selling. There are a number of companies who provide e-learning software platforms at extremely affordable rates. You can build your
7 Essentials Your Online Startup Needs to Follow
Starting an online business requires you to be extremely smart because 9 out of 10 startups fail and just 10 percent are lucky to enjoy the sweet taste of success. But there are essentials your online startup needs to follow. There are certain things that most of the startups fail to recognize
A Look Back at the 2018 WP Engine Summit | Anchors OK? Re-Assessing In-Page Links
Anchors OK? Re-Assessing In-Page Links
When users click an in-page link, the associated content should be scrolled close to the top of the screen, to make it easy for users to read as much as possible of the section. However, help users orient themselves and understand that they are still on the same web page, by showing a little bit of
Effective Use of Style Sheets
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are an elegantly designed extension to the Web and one of the greatest hopes for recapturing the Web's ideal of separation of presentation and content. The Web is the ultimate cross-platform system, and your content will be presented on such a huge variety of devices
Ensure High Contrast for Text Over Images
A well-chosen visual adds interest and can set the tone of a website, in addition to (hopefully) conveying some meaning. Eyetracking research has shown that people are attracted to information-carrying photos, when the images are related to the user’s current task. (If instead the images appear
