Authors Note: Due to an issue that surfaced during our testing process, we will be rescheduling automatic WordPress 5.0.3 updates. While this issue only affects a small subset of customers, we have decided to ensure complete resolution before proceeding.
WordPress 5.0 has arrived , and with it comes a new and improved way to create content in the post editor. At WP Engine, we’re excited for this change and are now ready to begin auto-upgrades for our customers. Historically, we have halted updates mid-November through January 1 in respect of holiday schedules, and this release is no different. Now that we are in the new year, we are ready to share...
The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
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
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
Blockchain in Retail: Changing the Shopping Experience
Counterfeit goods continue to plague global retailers and consumers who seek to enjoy luxury brands. Knockoff goods are often available at the local swap meet. However, finding them on legitimate online retail sites may be surprising. Fake goods are a significant global issue. One
Blockchain Success Stories Show Valuable Opportunities
Judging by these already-successful blockchain use cases, it would be tempting to draw the conclusion that there’s little room for entrepreneurs when so many moneyed interests are behind the biggest successes to date. The easy takeaway is that if you want to be among the 8 percent or so of
Sharing Economy 2.0: Technology is Removing the Need for Single Asset Ownership
We will see peer-to-peer lending, music and video streaming, auto sharing, house sharing, and online staffing. This gig economy can be significantly greater as we develop current and future technologies to increase accessibility. More and more accessibility to what we can share with one another
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
It used to be that you would buy two or three nice outfits to have in your wardrobe and would rotate them for special events. But in today’s era, with social media like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, all your friends will see what you wear, whether they go to the same event or not. And even
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Social Impact and Sustainability on Corporate Websites
The heading Corporate Responsibility made some users feel like the website was using overly complex, corporate jargon to describe its social efforts. Conclusion How companies act along with how they portray themselves on their corporate websites matters. Users today expect companies to take a
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Before a siege, Blackbeard dressed himself in a dark heavy coat and captain’s hat to accentuate his domineering stature. He strapped pistols to his chest and tucked lit, smoking fuses under his hat and in his beard to create an image reminiscent of the devil himself having just emerged from some
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
Some of these quadrants may seem ambiguous or overlapping — for example, it may be difficult to distinguish between Thinks and Feels. Do not focus too much on being precise: if an item may fit into multiple quadrants, just pick one. The 4 quadrants exist only to push our knowledge about users and
Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes of 2008
He was the only user to test this site because he encountered it during a task in which users could choose a site to visit (usually from a search listing). In this case, the user eventually overcame the confusion and proceeded to enter his measurements. If we had tested more users, a small
UI Copy: UX Guidelines for Command Names and Keyboard Shortcuts
Lead with verbs or verb phrases that clearly outline what will happen after the command is selected. For example, Print or Accept and Sign In. Common labels such as Back, Forward, New, Next, Previous, Undo and Settings are generally recognized by users and therefore, don’t need to be accompanied
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
While most usability studies should rely more on behavior, methods that use self-reported information can still be quite useful to designers. For example, card sorting provides insights about users' mental model of an information space, and can help determine the best information architecture
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Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface
The map in the background also makes the interaction with the other apps more error prone: if you’re trying to increase the size of an app window, you will have to drag from the top edge of the app’s view. But if you’re not careful and position your finger above the window handle, nothing
Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff
Organizations should also not only focus on providing the new service along with its benefits but consider where potential customers may fall on the spectrum of acceptance. Promote the advantages of the new technology while also addressing concerns about unfamiliar capabilities that will seem
UX Expert Reviews
Grounding the usability problem in a violation of existing UX knowledge is essential to elevate the expert review above the opinion wars that are rife in many development projects. A design element should never be designated a usability problem because the reviewer personally doesn’t like it or
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
Service Design 101
Why do we need to care about service design and the “experience of the employee” as UX Designers? An organization’s backstage processes (how we do things internally) have as much, if not more, impact on the overall user experience as the visible points of interaction that users encounter. If
Is Business Headed for a Cognitive-First Future?
Factories are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve their analytics and equipment effectiveness. Cognitive predictive maintenance can help with both these areas, as well as with conducting cognitive visual inspections. Deloitte’s findings suggest that cognitive predictive maintenance
Why IoT Data Protection Has Become More Important than Ever
Passed in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU law designed to give users more control over their personal data – and to protect against data breach and misuse. Unlike in Europe, in the US, there is no single, national law that regulates the collection and use of
3 High-Tech Ways Companies Are Fighting Cybercrime Right Now
Mounting a strong cyberdefense requires understanding your vulnerabilities. The best way to accomplish that is through reverse engineering your systems. Dennis Turpitka, founder and CEO of software development company Apriorit, emphasizes this key point: “Many people tend to think that reverse
The 6 Biggest Risks Today’s Internet Entrepreneurs Must Battle
In an online world where you put your products and services out there for the world to see, there’s always the risk that someone could come in and steal your thunder. The best way to avoid this is by (a) filing for all of the proper trademarks and patents, and (b) creating such a magnetic brand
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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
Standardizing “Tribal Knowledge”: It’s Time for Your Company to Grow Up
Time and time again, I’ve noticed that information gets locked inside the minds and computers of employees, and, as a result, not shared with wider teams. That lack of communication can inhibit both ongoing operations and further innovation and expansion — and it becomes an even more
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Photos as Web Content
This is a good example of why it's not always good to copy the biggest sites' designs. Because Amazon hawks a monstrously wide product range, they use a standardized gallery layout that sort of works for many different category pages, without being optimized for any individual category. In
The Role of Enhancement in Web Design
The answer to all of these is pretty much the same: these features can be implemented as enhancements in your interface, but the UI should not rely on them for accomplishing any one task — either because some users will not know about them or not think to use them (in the case of right click
Anchors OK? Re-Assessing In-Page Links
By contrast, an accordion-based table of contents has the advantage of being more visible to users than some tables of content implemented with in-page links. If in-page links only appear at the top of a page, users must return to the top of the page to navigate to another section. (This is not the
