Anyone who pays attention to the world of search engine optimization knows that maximizing your company’s search results on Google and other search engines is not something you can do with a quick pin here and a hasty status update there. It’s a full-time job. But if you’re working to build a startup, you’ve already
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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’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth the media hype. Bitcoin Cryptos’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth
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’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth the media hype. Bitcoin Cryptos’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth
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’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth the media hype. Bitcoin Cryptos’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth
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’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth the media hype. Bitcoin Cryptos’ underlying blockchain technology is well worth
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One team has found a novel way to address these inefficiencies and authenticity challenges through the blockchain. In January Dominik Schiener and his team won first prize at the Shanghai Blockchain Hackathon for their project Cargochain. We saw their work recently here in Berlin where they
Unfortunately, this is not the case as the average investor in most markets does not have timely access to reliable data to allow well-informed decisions in the markets. On the brighter side, the advent of blockchain technology makes it possible to record and track financial data without forged
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) is the name given to the organizations where decisions are made electronically through the blockchain and smart contracts system.When a business operates in such a system, it is governed by rules established through open voting with the weight of each
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Why is it important to understand the components of brand, and to differentiate brand from its common misinterpretation as simply a logo, a figurehead, or a website, among other things? Only when all three brand components — visuals, tone, and behaviors — are present and true to the core brand
The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
After the participants rated all 23 wireframes, they were presented with an open-ended question to elaborate more about the types of advertisements that they particularly liked or disliked. These responses were coded according to type or characteristic of the advertisement (i.e. if additional
Text Scanning Patterns: Eyetracking Evidence
Right-to-left languages such as Arabic favor a reversed F-pattern, like the one seen in this study participant’s gaze plot, as he was scanning a page on an Arabic website. (Each blue dot signifies a fixation. The lines between the dots represent saccades in which the user is moving the eyes and
Layered Interaction Analysis of Direct Manipulation (Jakob Nielsen)
Even though the directness of a mapping cannot be measured exactly, the concept of direct mappings can still be used to gain a better understanding of several forms of directness in user interfaces. In the rest of this section, direct mappings are used as a unifying principle in the discussion of
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Radio Buttons: Always Select One?
Do you give up about how to “program” a station with those old-school, mechanical buttons? Here’s how to do it. Use the tuner dial to get to the station you want then locate the button to “program” the station to. Now pull that button OUT, past the "not selected" state. Pull it hard as
Radio Buttons: Always Select One?
Power of suggestion (Good): Selecting is directive. Some things to watch out for though are being presumptuous, pushy, offensive, or alienating. Consider the content and the default selection, how users will react to it, and the effect the selection will have on the user and the organization in
Adding an Item to a Shopping Cart: Provide Clear, Persistent Feedback
Saks Fifth Avenue showed a nonmodal overlay that didn’t disappear on its own after the user added a product to the cart. While the overlay obscured some of the page content (which we don’t recommend), it still kept the main product information visible. In addition, the nonmodal nature of the
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
HealthCare.gov’s Account Setup: 10 Broken Usability Guidelines
Get Started appears after the user has selected a U.S. state and clicked the Apply Online button on the homepage. The graphic at the top of the page does not explain the process. Although the second circle might look like a computer, we challenge anybody to guess the meaning of the illustration in
WP Engine All Hands Spring 2019: US
Last week, WP Engine employees from all over the U.S. came together at our Austin headquarters for the first biannual All-Hands event of 2019. All Hands is a two-day event in which employees from other offices and teams around the country get the chance to collaborate and strategize with one
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WP Engine's London Office Recognised as a Great Place to Work
In 2015, WP Engine opened our first global office in London as a physical representation of our desire to expand our team of WordPress specialists and better serve our customers globally. Since then, we’ve worked hard to create a workplace that is collaborative, productive, and fun. Today, we
WP Engine Named a Great Place to Work in Ireland
I had never experienced a work culture as wonderful as the WP Engine culture before,” said Darren O’Dwyer, a Senior Talent Advisor at WP Engine’s Limerick office. “I love it here, the people genuinely enjoy working here, which makes the work environment a great place to be, and we have
The Role of Enhancement in Web Design
Be consistent. Use the same enhancement everywhere you can. That is, try to give users many opportunities to practice and thus strengthen the association between the enhancement and its effect in the interface. (Remember, repetition is the mother of retention.) Ideally, designers should use the
Service Blueprints: Definition
Actions that occur directly in view of the customer. These actions can be human-to-human or human-to-computer actions. Human-to-human actions are the steps and activities that the contact employee (the person who interacts with the customer) performs. Human-to-computer actions are carried out when
Ideation in Practice: How Effective UX Teams Generate Ideas
Only 15% of those surveyed felt that their ideation process was “very effective.” The largest group, 59% of respondents, considered their process as only “somewhat effective.” 8% were brave enough to admit their process is ineffective, about 1% weren’t sure, and a large 18% avoided
Data Science Careers: From Fragmentation to Necessity
Over the past decade — the concept of being a data scientist has become a “normal” occupation title. It is no longer an unusual way to phrase the job description in data analytics. Now this to the industry standard term for a swath of data careers. Data Science. Like any career
29% of Internet Users Have Bought Things From Spam Email?? Say It Aint So!
The announcement of the study concludes with these funny lines, from Anstis again: “The other way to look at this situation is from a spammer’s perspective. There are approximately 250 million people out there who are interested in these kinds of products and have made purchases from
SEO DIY: Optimize Your Startup’s Website Yourself
Anyone who pays attention to the world of search engine optimization knows that maximizing your company’s search results on Google and other search engines is not something you can do with a quick pin here and a hasty status update there. It’s a full-time job. But if you’re
The 4 Sales Tools Every Company Will Use in 2019
For sales processes, machine learning is a dream come true. More than 40 percent of salespeople find prospecting leads to be the hardest part of the job, with 22 percent feeling that qualifying those leads is even harder. Now, AI can sift through prospects using advanced analytics to discover which
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Coming to Terms – Why Terms of Use are Critical for Your Company
Every time you’ve installed a piece of commercial software, you’ve invariably been presented with what must have appeared to be legal gibberish- a seeming difficult to read, needlessly long, solid block of text that was almost impossible to understand. Most people never bother to read the
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
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