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.
As Austin’s tech scene has evolved from semiconductors to startups, Heather added that new tech companies have consistently had to define their corporate identities. While some of Austin’s legacy technology businesses have jumped out as philanthropic leaders, she said that new, larger
What is a child theme? A child theme works in combination with the parent theme. With regards to Genesis, child themes serve as a sort of skin that can change the way a theme looks, while relying on the functionality of its parent theme (in this case, Genesis). Child themes offer users the added
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
Why Mobile Games and App Stores Should Opt for Blockchain
Blockchain solutions can pave the way to new business models, which go beyond the current free-to-play (F2P, FtP) video games and premium pricing models. With increasing competition (many quality games, leading to lower attention span and retention rates), higher development costs, and higher
Businesses Broke Ground on Blockchain. What Can Civic Groups Learn?
Such attacks have made security experts skeptical of blockchain-based voting initiatives. To prevent vote manipulation and data breaches, West Virginia will use a three-tier security system for its blockchain voting app. Users will first submit a photo of their government-issued identification
9 Blockchains Transforming the Way We Pay, Play, and Work
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’
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
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Eartracking: A New UX-Research Method
Currently, only 4 computers in the world are fast enough to do eartracking: 2 in the U.S. and 2 in China. Luckily, this distribution allowed us to continue our tradition of testing with both American and Chinese users. After all, we’ve previously found that Chinese users and Western users differ
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
Direct Manipulation: Definition
It’s hard to imagine modern interfaces without direct manipulation. Almost any interface that is aimed at a broad audience and has a graphical component is based on DM. With the explosion of touchscreen devices, we’ve seen DM UIs depart from the original office metaphors and innovate in a
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Airbnb makes it easy to satisfy the needs of these travelers by connecting them with owners who want to make an extra dollar by renting out their property. Before Airbnb, sites such as Home Away and property-management agencies used to connect owners with interested renters, but these were focused
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Unless you have an unlimited clothes budget, it’s unrealistic (and wasteful) to wear a new outfit for every single occasion, yet social media pressures us into it. Rent a Runway solves this tension elegantly by recycling (expensive) clothes across a large set of women. It’s an example of the
Users' Pagination Preferences and "View All"
Pagination is a necessary evil when you have too many items to easily show them all on one screen. Linear content flows — such as articles like this — should almost never be broken up into multiple screens. It’s better to show the full article on one long screen than to inflict the pain of
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Usability Testing with Minors: 16 Tips
Conducting user research with young users requires additional considerations compared with studies with adult participants. For example, from a legal perspective, children and teens cannot give their own permission to participate in the study and therefore we must work with their parents or legal
Profit Maximization vs. User Loyalty
For example, a site that often deals in products that are exclusive or hard-to-come-by could offer these products to its most loyal users first. When something like a Furby craze hits, a site could decide to sell its Furby allocation to those customers who had bought the most in the past. (Paul
Case Study: Iterative Design and Prototype Testing of the NN/g Homepage
Early layouts used a grid of squares to present articles, videos, and training events. Users said they liked this grid — but when we added an alternative layout using a list format for articles, people unanimously gravitated towards the list version. (Pay attention to what people do, which is
Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability
Competitive testing is particularly important if you're using an Agile development methodology because you often won't have time for deeper explorations during individual sprints. You can do the competitive study before starting your development project because you're testing existing sites
Service Design 101
Imagine a restaurant where there are a range employees: hosts, servers, busboys, and chefs. Service design focuses on how the restaurant operates and delivers the food it promises—from sourcing and receiving ingredients, to on-boarding new chefs, to server-chef communication regarding a diner’s
What to Consider When Leveraging File Sharing
For example, you may want to see who has looked at the file to ensure everyone is staying current on their responsibilities. If there is an issue related to the changes, it helps to see a version history so you know who made what changes and when in order to resolve those disputes. Or, you can make
Past Bitcoin to Making Money from the Blockchain
There are jobs listed from all over the world for every specialty from developer to trader to meme specialist (it’s real – look it up). There are also gig economy opportunities for blockchain and cryptocurrency companies if you don’t want to quit your day job. You can even do gigs and get
The Positive Evolution of Your Business Depends on the Tech Revolution
Most of today’s businesses are subject to security threats and vandalism. You can use technology to protect your company’s financial data, confidential executive decisions, and proprietary information. Take prodigious care so that you won’t succumb to hackers or be taken over by your
How New Tech Startups Can Differentiate Themselves
However, there are two problems with relying on this approach. First, coming up with a brand-new idea is ridiculously tough, and it’s almost impossible to do intentionally. Second, even if you’re one of the rare entrepreneurs capable of generating a new idea from scratch, it’s only a matter
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Enterprise Community Event and C2C Event Platform Bevy Raises $6.4 Million
Startup Grind has been building its name and brand by helping to promote director’s who are running their own private businesses. Startup Grind is these directors’ side hustle. Operating in over 400 cities across 120 countries globally. The SG Director’s have to be able to plan and execute
How Tech Startups Succeed With a Fully Remote Model
Companies that operate fully remotely don’t need to restrict their hiring options to any one local area. Instead, they can hire people all over the world, broadening their employee pool. This could be beneficial because it allows you to hire people in other areas of the world for lower costs, or
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Store Finders and Locators
Many of the websites we tested in Studies 3 and 4 included the option to use current location to begin a search. The majority of study participants allowed access to their current location when the site requested it. Some desktop users did not notice the browser popup requesting their location
Website Forms Usability: Top 10 Recommendations
So when I first saw the TSA’s complaint form, the design error seemed so obvious that I wondered if it might be intentional. The form includes 2 buttons at the bottom: Preview and Clear Form. The Preview label is less than ideal, since most users would expect a Submit or at least a Next button
Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
For example, on AT&T’s website it wasn’t even clear how to access the mobile plans. To many people, the label Wireless (under which the plans lived) implies wireless internet, or WiFi— especially on a site that also sells internet services. What saved this label was the use of a mobile
