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.
The award itself was inspired by recent research conducted by Great Place to Work, which surveyed about 500,000 U.S. employees at nearly 800 public and privately-owned companies—mostly based in the U.S. Employees were asked how often they were included in larger, strategic decisions, whether they
Mullenweg referenced his 2017 State of the Word where he told the WordPress community to “learn JavaScript deeply.” He said the second request is much easier: learn blocks deeply. The blocks are now the DNA of WordPress. Once you have learned about blocks, the possibilities with creation will
At WP Engine, we believe our people are the core of every success, award, milestone and every achievement. That’s because employees who truly feel empowered and validated by their workplace are energized to delight and inspire the customer in every interaction. When new employees walk through the
Optimizing Business Decisions With Blockchain Technology
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
Is Blockchain Winning or Losing? — 4 Stages of Blockchain Evolution
Furthermore, there are other new players on the market, e.g., Ultrain which is projected to surpass the performance of both Bitcoin, Ethereum and even NEO blockchain. Ultrain is a Singapore-based startup founded and developed by former technical executives, scientists, and engineers of Alibaba
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface
This example points out an important dilemma that car designers and manufacturers face today. New features such as autopilot (or self-driving), lane assist, collision detection and so on have the potential to replace well-learned, traditional driver behaviors such as looking over the shoulder or
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Five User Requirements for Online Ads
Consider your current designs and identify the circumstances in which your advertisements are presented. Do they interrupt your readers mid-sentence? Do they dive into an audible monologue while your customer is busy doing something else? In short — pretend your advertisements are uninvited
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Pre Uber we were all plagued with standing on the corner, possibly in the rain, belongings in hand while attempting to wave down one of the few free taxis. (The worse the rain, the fewer the taxis — that’s a law of nature.) An abundance of unknowns adding further anxiety: how much is it going
Assessing the Usability of a User Interface Standard
The question about whether they would comply with the standard under all circumstances divided the developers into two camps, with 33% who would sometimes deviate from the standard. Of the 67% "loyalists," only 27% were "blind loyalists" who would follow the standard no matter what, whereas the
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
Forms are necessary components of many applications and websites. We use them to log in, purchase items, send feedback, and enter our personal information. Think about the websites you use and how many times you enter information: how often do you run into errors? How frustrating is it to navigate
Defeated By a Dialog Box
The lesson from this case study is not how to design a better "Save As" dialog. Depending on the circumstances, you could use any of the four designs I listed, or perhaps even design a fifth that works better for your particular type of data. It's easy enough to find out what's best for your users
Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites
JCPenney was mindful of price-conscious buyers and implemented a Find Best Coupon banner during checkout. Users could click this, and an overlay would appear on the right, showing available coupons. Once users found an appropriate coupon, they could click Apply and the code would be applied
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The Mobile Checkout Experience
Fields such as credit-card type, address, city, or state can be automatically calculated based on other data entered by the user (the credit-card number and, respectively, the ZIP code). Instead of asking users to type this information explicitly, do the work for them. Our research showed that
When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps
Journey maps should result in truthful narratives, not fairy tales. Start with gathering any existing research, but additional journey-based research is also needed to fill in the gaps that the existing research won’t cover. This is a qualitative-research process. While quantitative data can help
Small Pictures on Big Screens: Scaling Up from Mobile to Desktop
For example, as the screen gets wider, scale the image up in width, height, or both, but stop before the image becomes either disproportionately large or hard to understand. Then, crop the image so it works in the new screen dimensions and start expanding this version until the image needs
Customer Journeys and Omnichannel User Experience
New devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches provide the means for customers to interact with organizations in new and unique contexts. Technologies afforded by these devices introduce new opportunities for businesses to improve their customer’s experiences (for example, the
5 Steps to Service Blueprinting
Add the process that employees rely on to effectively interact with the customer. These processes are the activities involving all employees within the company, including those who don’t typically interact directly with customers. These support processes need to happen in order to deliver the
How IoT Running on Blockchain Can Make Climate Change a Reality
By comparing results with laboratory equipment, we have proved that this method results in precise measurements, and the data can be used in environmental programs. In general, drone sensors record the content of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide in atmospheric air
Is more IoT driving more cyber attacks?
IoT security attacks caused because of the Internet will not only impact normal people’s life, but also produce more serious problems to large-scale enterprises. Based on the report titled Toward New Possibilities in Threat Management from Price Waterhouse Coopers in 2017, the number of cyber
Smart data exchange will bring value to smart city innovation
Integral to the notion of a shared data repository is accessible open data, a concept embraced in many cities including LA, Barcelona and New York. Many cities are opening their data to both businesses, universities, and citizens to enable them to gain in-depth insight into the lived reality of
4 Ways Early Stage CTOs Can Learn to Roll With the Punches
When the CEO asked me what was going on and how to fix it, I got defensive. It took him pressing the discussion for me to understand that he didn’t even know what our options were. Once I told him about our possible courses of action, he was able to offer perspective and support. By being open
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8 Major Legal Risks Faced By Startups
Every modern business invests in a website to promote its products or to use it as a platform for conducting business. They access personal information of visitors to manage sales or their marketing campaigns. More often than not they use generic content for the privacy policy displayed on the
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
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Scoped Search: Dangerous, but Sometimes Useful
Asking a customer to decide in advance what category they want to search for increases their cognitive load by causing them to make a decision. But people want to do the least amount of work possible. That’s not a criticism: our brains are designed to work efficiently, devoting the minimum
Finally Progress in Internet Client Design
Napster connects many users to many servers and basically allows users to view the entire Internet as a collected resource for getting music (or, potentially, other content and services). At the same time, Napster also encourages users to contribute back to the richness of this resource by making
Intelligent Assistants Have Poor Usability: A User Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri
AI-based user interfaces may be slightly better than mobile usability was in 2000, but not by much. Will it take two decades to reach good AI usability? Some of the problems that need solving are so tough that this may even be an optimistic assessment. But just as with mobile, the benefits of
