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...
The process of disabling the 5.0 editor should not be a hassle. In the coming days, we will be rolling out an admin notice that will display on the Dashboard page* of your site(s). This notice will have information about adopting the new editor and will provide buttons to install/activate the
The typical “main content plus sidebar” set up eventually gave way to the “wide content set up.” Thank goodness for the popularization of sticky elements to avoid important info getting lost. Sticky bars at the top, headers that scroll or sticky bars at the footer offer up a way to
Next, in a series of lightning talks, Steven Moy, Chief Technology Officer at R/GA (US), showcased real-life use cases of world-class digital marketing and communicating a way that is culturally relevant. In one example, Moy referenced the branding of A/R Jordans. To remind the young
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
RW Q&A: Monisha Perkash, founder of Lumo Bodytech
Lumo’s wearable products are characteristically small with intelligent sensors. Perkash described the Lumo Lift, a small lapel pin that attaches to your shirt with magnets, and the Lumo Run, a tiny clip that could be attached to the waistband of your shorts. “When you slouch, the Lumo Lift
Blockchain Success Stories Show Valuable Opportunities
At the time of this writing, the system had already captured close to 254 million unique shipping events, making TradeLens one of the most-used commercial blockchain systems to date. It’s also one of the few blockchain platforms that have seen enough success to have already attracted
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
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
4 Noteworthy Intranet Design Trends in 2019
In one example, the Flight Centre, a large travel company specializing in vacations, tours, and corporate travel, tracked and communicated on its intranet all events that could cause — or have already caused — travel interruptions. Travel interruptions are the enemy to travel agents, but armed
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Designing and developing a product often involves a large team of people with different backgrounds and experiences who must be on the same page about the project goals, the user needs and behaviors, and even the component processes involved. This common understanding is often built with
Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens
Teens are becoming more successful at navigating websites and finding what they need. At the time of the third study, the oldest participant was born in 2001 and the youngest was born in 2005; therefore, all participants in this study grew up with access to computers. Between all three studies
The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) means your document, as it appears on the screen, accurately reflects what it will look like when it is printed. This is certainly a big improvement over earlier computer-based text formatting systems such as troff, in which there was no obvious relation
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Why are we willing to sleep in strangers’ beds, or conversely, let strangers into our homes? We do so because Airbnb has established a trusted, secure, and easy to use customer experience. Similar to Rent the Runway, Airbnb is a player in the growing “sharing” economy. The peer-to-peer online
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives
For example, one user who landed on Uncommon Goods’ website became disgruntled when she was greeted by a modal overlay asking for her email address to get access to secret sales. She said, “It really annoys me when stuff like that pops up before I’ve done anything else on the website. How do
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
Why User Interviews Fail
The color preference affects the user's overall perception of the product. Even if users actually do like, dislike, or feel some emotions related to the color, it doesn’t mean it will affect their overall perception of the design or organization to any meaningful degree. A background color is
Cancel vs Close: Design to Distinguish the Difference
In some cases, the distinction between cancel and close doesn’t matter. When a popup takes over the majority of your screen, hitting the X button (as quickly as humanly possible) serves to both close that modal and perhaps cancel any process it might have triggered. However, if a screen contains
7 Tips for Successful Customization
Over many years of seeing customization tools implemented in a variety of systems in a variety of ways, we often find that users do not use them. The fact that customization relies on users’ actions means that the potential benefits of customization will reach fewer users than personalization
How Channels, Devices, and Touchpoints Impact the Customer Journey
One common misconception is that computing devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets are interaction channels themselves. However, devices are not channels. Devices simply provide the means to access channels (usually digital channels, but there may be exceptions, for example smart
The Impact of Interaction Design on Brand Perception
Tolstrup and Heyer found many relationships between interactivity attributes and the brand and emotional attributes. For the full discussion on the relationships they found, see their paper, referenced at the end of this article. The findings related to labels, expected behavior, and consistency in
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
The future of tokenization and blockchain is not just ICOs
Even with successful ICOs happening in the US, tokenization built on blockchain is under utilized in terms of its potential. I ran into a start-up called, FundersToken, at an after party for RISE 2017 that is trying to fix this. FundersToken is a CRM software-based company, with the backbone of
From Hype to Practical: What’s Next for AI?
It may come as a surprise, but most analysts today still uncover suspicious domains visually — by combing through a long list of domains for anything unusual that sticks out. They improve with time and more in-depth familiarity, but it’s still a very manual process to uncover malicious and
How Start-Up Chile Helps Entrepreneurs and Chile Alike
The Start-Up Chile accelerator was arguably the spark that ignited Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Chilean government, through the development agency CORFO, founded Start-Up Chile in 2010 as a way to bring in foreign entrepreneurs who would galvanize Chile’s transition into an economy
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
Meet Meural, Fine Art on My Walls at Home
It has been shocking and revealing to realize that I didn’t even really know these people I’ve worked with for years. Stories are told that we have never heard before. “Bro, what did you put a pic of a 1950’s toaster up on the Meural for?” “Well, that was sold in my grandfather’s
The Role of IT or an IT Consultant Provider for Business Growth
A business that continually has network problems or connectivity problems will lose business. An employee can’t work effectively when they don’t have the correct tools or appropriate access to the online information is lowered prices. If all of the work is managed by one IT person or
A Look Back at the 2018 WP Engine Summit | Website Forms Usability: Top 10 Recommendations
Website Forms Usability: Top 10 Recommendations
TSA’s web form includes a Clear Form button, which violates usability guidelines dating back more than 15 years. To add insult to injury, the Clear Form button is positioned closer to the input fields than the Preview button, thus making it even more likely that people will hit it by mistake (and
Intelligent Assistants Have Poor Usability: A User Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri
Speech is an inefficient output modality. It takes a long time to listen to an assistant read out each possible alternative, and we watched users get visibly annoyed while listening to an assistant talk at length about an option. The assistant’s wordiness was especially frustrating when the
The Same Link Twice on the Same Page: Do Duplicates Help or Hurt?
MassGeneral.org: Options to make an appointment are listed in multiple ways. To make it worse, they can be seen together within the same view. The redundancy makes users wonder if the links support different actions (e.g., make an appointment online versus calling to make an appointment). It is
