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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Other cryptocurrencies and blockchain platforms have also experimented with alternative protocols which consume way less energy. Such algorithms could potentially eliminate the energy consuming process of mining while at the same time recording transactions. The fact that a number of brilliant
If you’re not a member of the healthcare community, then you might not be aware of a quiet crisis creeping up on hospitals all over the country: not enough nurses and too many patients. This trend is partially fueled by the Baby Boomers who are reaching old age. Baby Boomer nurses are beginning
The blockchain runs a decentralized ledger system, which distributes information across a network of computers and uses a consensus algorithm to ensure parity. IBMembraces this approach in its IoT for business products, noting that the blockchain “enables your business partners to access and
Sympathy vs. Empathy in UX
If you’ve been with your team for a while, you may have a good idea of the types of erroneous assumptions it tends to make. Create specific guidelines that can act as a check point against your team’s bad habits, especially when it comes to empathy. For example, if your team is prone to not
Mobile Microsessions
Application-suggested shortcuts enable the users to perform a specific action quickly. In this example, the PayPal app suggested a shortcut for a frequent payment, which is available both from the iPhone’s Shortcuts app (left) and, in this case, from the PayPal app itself (middle). After the user
Browser and GUI Chrome
What do we mean when talking about the "chrome" in a user interface design? An attendee asked this question during a recent course on Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet. Whenever someone asks us a basic question, I assume that many more people want the answer as well — and thus, this article on
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
If you feel that you need more detail or you have unique needs, adapt the map by including additional quadrants (like Goals the example below) or by increasing specificity to existing quadrants. Depending on the purpose of your empathy map, polish and digitize the output accordingly. Be sure to
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Layered Interaction Analysis of Direct Manipulation (Jakob Nielsen)
Exactly this kind of problem occurred for a user who was the manager of the computer-human interaction group at the National Defence Research Center in a Western European country and was thus no novice user. He was returning to his computer after having been interrupted for slightly more than an
Modal & Nonmodal Dialogs: When (& When Not) to Use Them
In situations where the task is not critical, a nonmodal dialog might be appropriate. Nonmodal dialogs are less offensive than modal ones because they allow users to continue their activity and ignore them if they are irrelevant. However, they can still be disruptive, especially if they obscure
Seamlessness in the Omnichannel User Experience
Users interact with companies and organizations through many channels, including the web, mobile and tablet applications, email, kiosks, online chat, and by speaking with customer representatives in physical locations or over the phone. When users engage with an organization through a specific
UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
The most successful mergers of category and listing pages were those that highlighted available subcategories separately from other filters, most often above the product listings. This practice increased the discoverability of the subcategories and encouraged users to navigate to a more specific
M-Commerce: Terrible UX
At the end of 2015, the data shows that if a website can make a dollar from a mobile visitor, then that site will on average make $3.24 from a desktop visitor. If these sites were able to improve their mobile user experience to the extent that mobile equaled desktop, then their mobile revenue would
WP Engine: 2018 in Review
New year, new you, did you say? Well, that was our reality in 2018 as we rolled out some of our favorite new platform additions. We took the lead on the Amazon Polly plugin, the first plugin to bring voice technology to WordPress. The WP Engine Digital Experience Platform continued to evolve and
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A First Look at WordCamp US .
In less than two weeks, members from the WordPress community around the world will head to Nashville, Tennessee for WordCamp US. This is the second consecutive year that the event has been held in Music City and WordPress community has evolved significantly since 2017. The most anticipated topic of
StudioPress Theme Spotlight: New Breakthrough Pro
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re extra excited to bring you this new StudioPress Theme: Breakthrough Pro, which is the first new theme to be launched since our acquisition of StudioPress in June. Breakthrough Pro
Troubleshooting Group Ideation: 10 Fixes for More and Better UX Ideas
Hierarchy intimidation is related to groupthink and unequal contribution. It can manifest when one high-ranking member of the group proposes an idea, and all the teammates agree and begin to focus on that idea, rather than contributing alternate solutions. It can also happen when new or
Iterative Design of User Interfaces
Figure 1 shows a conceptual graph of the relation between design iterations and interface usability. Ideally, each iteration would be better than the previous version, but as shown later in this article, this is not always true in practice. Some changes in an interface may turn out not to be
Test Paper Prototypes to Save Time and Money: The Mozilla Case Study
With that knowledge in mind, in the first iteration of the design we focused on limiting the number of choices. The new design allowed people to start with either their task or their product or service, and it offered 5 most-wanted links in a box in the bottom left corner of the page. These
Data Legislation Is Coming. Can You Get Compliant?
The aforementioned Senate hearing was just the most recent time that companies like Google and Microsoft have had to appear before Congress. Thus far legislators have taken a hands-off approach to data protection, but that position is quickly changing. As more of life has shifted online, the issues
Data Privacy Attitudes and Connected Cars: A Deeper Look
Not surprisingly, the consumers who participated in our recent consumer study on connected car data sharing expressed concerns. about sharing their data with various types of businesses and government entities. A full 66 percent of connected car owners and 64 percent of new car buyers say that at
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
Images of Fitbit next smartwatch reveal heart-rate improvements
Fitbit is on schedule, as its boss James Park keeps reminding us, to launch its next smartwatch by the end of the year. We don’t know what the smartwatch will be called, though Blaze 2 seems likely, but thanks to leaks we know its design and some of the hardware improvements. Images obtained by
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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
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