Gutenberg heralds a new era for WordPress and its ecosystem. The feature-rich editor makes it easier for people with a non-technical background—e.g. marketers, content creators, and really anyone — to quickly build sleek, high-performing, great-looking websites .
Rather than relying on custom HTML, embed discovery, and shortcodes to add dynamic content, Gutenberg offers a post and page building experience that makes it easy to create rich post layouts. Adding text, images, videos, and a slew of other elements can now be done through the use of content blocks , which are added (with a click or keyboard shortcut) as a post or page is being built.
Heather’s leadership at WP Engine has been instrumental in helping the company build an enduring, predictable business, particularly after a key investment from Silver Lake last January, as well as the recent acquisition of StudioPress. Heather also heads a diverse leadership team and has
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
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re shifting our focus to food with this new StudioPress Theme: Daily Dish Pro, which is designed to make your content just as appetizing as the best meal at your favorite four-star
CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
I’ve done a re-design of my Radio weblog, using CSS. Look ma, no tables! Yes, it’s now a tableless design. I’m doing my bit for the web standards cause, although I haven’t yet achieved 100% XHTML validation. For my re-design I used a CSS Zen Garden design by Michael Landis
The Top Futurist Speakers to Have at Your Conference
Phill Nosworthy is the founder and managing director of Switch L+D, a learning and development company that coaches teams at leading organizations. Nosworthy’s focus on education and what businesses need to know to prepare for the future makes him a top futurist keynote speaker. Few other
Stop Focusing on Cryptocurrencies Problems. Consider its Future.
Only understanding what a sector of business leads to tons of speculation and questionable informants using platforms of authority to mislead. Don’t listen to just anyone who claims to be a crypto expert. Those people who claim to be in the know, or who claim to have special expertise are
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
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Split Buttons: Definition
In complex applications, it is easy to overwhelm users with a tremendous number of options, commands, tools, and controls. Showing a large number of tools all at once is visually overwhelming, and evaluating all the available actions places far too much cognitive load on users. Split buttons reduce
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
This is what level-2 people can do: “At this level, tasks typically require the use of both generic and more specific technology applications. For instance, the respondent may have to make use of a novel online form. Some navigation across pages and applications is required to solve the problem
Apps Within Apps: UX Lessons from WeChat Mini Programs
During our study, many people complained that if a WeChat message arrived while they were in a mini program, they couldn’t easily check the message and then resume their task in the program. Instead, they had to quit the program to view messages. Unfortunately, some mini programs didn’t save
Direct Manipulation: Definition
Continuous feedback? Only if you attempt an operation that the system feels like letting you do. If you want to do something that’s not available, you can push and drag buttons and icons as much as you want with no effect whatsoever. No feedback, only frustration. (A good UI will show in-context
Top 10 Intranet Trends of 2016
The 10 best-designed intranets for 2016 may be leading-edge cases, but the trends in their design should spread to more mainstream intranets in the next few years. Although every intranet feature won’t work well at every organization, feature trends from outstanding intranets can inspire your
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
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Five User Requirements for Online Ads
It is fair to say that public opinion does not favor most online ads — our research confirms it. In a recent study, we collected open-ended responses to understand what truly makes or breaks an online advertising experience. From the 300 responses we received, comprised mostly of negative
The Slow Tail: Time Lag Between Visiting and Buying
Dr. Alan Rimm-Kaufman from the Rimm-Kaufman Group recently tracked one million clicks on search ads on Google and Yahoo. These advertising clicks eventually translated into 41,377 conversions on the target websites. Although the clients in question must remain anonymous, they presumably have
Narrative Biases: When Storytelling HURTS User Experience
When asked about a general case (what’s a more common level of educational achievement), we naturally consider the prevalence, or base rate, of educational achievement among the entire population. But in the presence of a specific detail (such as the act of reading the New York Times), we often
Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability
Yes, some design problems are radically new — say, the original design of the iPad or the Kinect. And some are semi-radical, such as designing a first-generation iPad app or Kinect game (after the platform itself had already been designed, but before the corresponding usability guidelines had
Test Paper Prototypes to Save Time and Money: The Mozilla Case Study
The designer made the prototypes using OmniGraffle, and we printed them onto tabloid paper and cut them to size. Because there was no code to change, this prototyping method allowed us to make design changes quickly during testing. Firefox users helped progress the designs rapidly toward better
Profiling Hackers: Defining the Good, Bad, and Ugly Personas
There are many methods hackers use to test and identify vulnerabilities that let them get to the desired data. The first is a penetration test, which stimulates a cyber attack to see what might happen. A network penetration test focuses on potential vulnerabilities in firewalls, routers, and any
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Melissa Hathaway came across our radar recently when President Obama tasked the former Bush administration aide with leading a 60-day review of Bush’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; a largely classified, purported $30 billion, multi phase plan to address cybersecurity issues
3 CRM Features You Need to Become GDPR Compliant
If your CRM system helps you collect data on contacts as well as organize/analyze it, it needs to be able to create GDPR compliant opt-in forms. When someone creates an account with your business or offers up information in exchange for a lead magnet, they need to be able to actively check a box
Is Artificial Intelligence Still Relevant for Startups?
Hazus, along with Esri and Geospiza, is doing something similar with FEMA data. These organizations are creating AI dashboards using predictive analytics around disaster and emergency response. That team could tell you the best bet when responding to a tornado, hurricane, or earthquake plaguing a
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Start-ups and International Talent
On that note, recently Nat Torkington from O’Reilly set up a Google Group for New Zealand Web 2.0 people, called NZ 2.0. Ironically this was instigated after Silicon Valley’s Mike Arrington referred a local kiwi company to me, which led me to send a group email to a bunch of kiwis
How Start-Up Chile Helps Entrepreneurs and Chile Alike
Beyond giving him time to focus on developing his product, Start-Up Chile taught Allier to launch early, and with the right people on board from the start. The program also made it possible for him to do so. “Start-Up Chile gave Viajala early recognition that enabled me to get the right people on
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University Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines
Why should universities care about usability? Aren't students smart and computer savvy? Well, even though you want high-IQ applicants, prospective undergraduate students haven't received the benefits of a college education yet and often have fairly poor research skills. Although they know how to
Aspects of Design Quality
This negative correlation certainly doesn't mean that accessibility stands in opposition to a good homepage design. Remember: We evaluated the homepages' usability, not whether they had a particularly glamorous appearance or featured intricate Flash animations. (The latter usually reduce both
Image-Focused Design: Is Bigger Better?
The rationale for this approach is that compelling images have a unique ability to inspire and engage your audience. In his book, Emotional Design, Don Norman described the powerful, visceral responses people can have to visual appearance. Websites can elicit positive visceral responses from people
