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.
After a day of distribution, only a handful of customers took the challenge despite the fact that they were only being asked to walk a fraction of the distance a Somali child walks every day. After quenching their thirst with the water, the salesman asked them to check the ingredients on the label
Google Docs is perfect for collaborating because multiple people and workflows can be operating at the same time. Integrating these capabilities into WordPress would expedite projects and avoid frustrations. Integration would allow for user revisions and allow them to be fully extensible in a way
After a day of distribution, only a handful of customers took the challenge despite the fact that they were only being asked to walk a fraction of the distance a Somali child walks every day. After quenching their thirst with the water, the salesman asked them to check the ingredients on the label
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
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
A Tale of Two Bubbles: Why Cryptocurrency Isn’t the Next Dot-Com
Be ready to work with government agencies and adapt to new regulations when they inevitably arrive. Private companies that behave like public companies are more likely to come out on top. In that same vein, be sure you’re not taking a ton of money from unaccredited investors — or
Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens
Teens are wired. Technology is so integrated with teenagers’ lives that creating useful and usable websites and apps for them is more critical than ever. To succeed in a world where the next best thing is a click away and text message interruptions are the rule, not the exception, website and app
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Incorporating UX Work into Your Agile Backlog
Backlogs in Agile On most Agile teams, feature planning is documented in the form of user stories. Each user story is given acceptance criteria and an estimated effort necessary to complete them, and the list of stories is then prioritized based on the needs of the stakeholders, business, and
‘Our Users Are Everyone’: Designing Mass-Market Products for Large User Audiences
Simple cutoffs: even if you don’t have quantitative data, pick a cutoff point based on anecdotal user comments — such as, people who visit at least once a week are frequent users, anyone who visits less than once a week is an infrequent user. Your groups may not exactly match the real
Visual Design Terms Cheat Sheet
When overall brightness is increased, all colors, foreground and background, are made lighter — that is, closer to white (complete lightness). When brightness decreases, all colors are darker and closer to black (complete darkness). Manipulating brightness in any visual can influence how easy it
The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)
As an example of the limitations of the desktop metaphor, consider the trash can on the Macintosh desktop. It is a fine metaphor for the wastebasket in an office. In both cases we dispose of objects by putting them in the trash can and we're able to retrieve documents we had thrown out until the
Sliders, Knobs, and Matrices: Balancing Exploration and Precision
Adobe Lightroom uses multiple types of input controls for numeric parameters, including sliders and virtual knobs. Although they all represent continuous numeric data, each type of input control reflects some important, additional information about the data being modified: the Angle control uses a
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Rather than hiding irrelevant actions, disable them so that users won’t have to try to find where menu items disappeared, nor will they have to determine how to get the system back in the proper context to reveal a specific command. Also, make sure that you include all options (instead of just
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10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Video Games
PlayerUnknown’s Battleground (PUBG) is a battle-royale game, or, in laymen’s terms, a large-scale player–versus–player shooter game that ends when one winner (team or individual) is the last one left “alive.” PUBG contains dozens of weapons that players can pick up and use throughout
Wishlists, Gift Certificates, and Gift Giving in E-Commerce
Gift-related shopping often puts greater emphasis on established e-commerce guidelines or alters their interpretation. For example, it's always been a guideline to disclose shipping & handling, sales taxes, and any other charges before you ask users for personal information. When shopping with
Case Study: Iterative Design and Prototype Testing of the NN/g Homepage
We learned something new with each round. Feedback was categorized into four themes: copy, architecture, layout, and visual style. Depending on the feedback, we tweaked one or multiple aspects of the page. In some cases, we only needed to tweak a sentence or make something higher contrast; in other
Front-end style guides are becoming one of the most useful UX deliverables. They are especially important in Agile environments, where enabling more efficient design workflows is critical to keeping the fast pace of development. When developed rigorously, style guides promote consistent design
Which UX Deliverables Are Most Commonly Created and Shared?
Since UX work takes place in such widely differing environments, the types of deliverables vary hugely, from formal reports and presentations, all the way to whiteboard sketches that only get documented when someone takes pictures with a smartphones and emails them to the team. We communicate so
We get Smarter with the Internet of Things (IoT) and so do Cities
For efficient results, smart traffic lights and their signals need to be interconnected across the entire traffic grid. This connectivity helps to offer more insights and information about traffic lights and patterns. Each of these sensors detect a varied parameter of traffic flow. Such
The future of tokenization and blockchain is not just ICOs
Even with successful ICOs happening in the US, tokenization built on blockchain is under utilized in terms of its potential. I ran into a start-up called, FundersToken, at an after party for RISE 2017 that is trying to fix this. FundersToken is a CRM software-based company, with the backbone of
In an Experiential-Obsessed Marketplace, Surkus Uses Tech to Stand Out
But good information is there for the taking. George points to concerts as an example: If a concert producer spent the majority of his budget on the closing act and the grand finale fireworks, but 40 percent of concertgoers left two hours before the encore, Surkus can provide that data to the
7 Critical Time Management Skills to Boost Your Productivity
We all want to be more productive and improve our time management skills. Unfortunately, while time management is simple in theory, it’s not always an easy concept to put into practice. It takes knowledge, effort, and discipline. Here are seven critical time management skills to boost your
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Why Your Business Needs Copyrights
However, a copyright registrant has the option to elect statutory damages in lieu of actual damages, which makes the calculations very simple and straight-forward. Statutory damages ranges from between $750 to $30,000 per work and can even go up to $150,000 per work if the infringement can be
E-Commerce Failures and Mistakes: Why do so Many Startups Fail?
Of course, the investment. When talking about online business, when can we ever neglect the investment part? If you’ve ventured into this business, you have to have enough money, no matter which product you are selling. Else, your company will cease to exist. Often, e-commerce businesses fail to
Gutenberg—Believe in the Beauty of Your Dreams | The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design
The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design
Depending on the context and the designer’s priorities, an argument can be made for the ability of large background images/videos to create an impact on users’ perception of brand. When a background image is used for a carefully considered, strategic reason, sticking to minimalist-design
UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
This latest round of research found that, compared to the past, fewer sites provide traditional category pages as interim pages before presenting individual products. In an effort to reduce the number of pages that users must click through, many sites now have replaced or augmented category-landing
University Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines
When first looking at new university, visitors want to know why your school is special and what you’re proud of as an institution. Gather those statistics, rankings, and awards, and make them easy to find (for example, on your About Us page). We know that users scan pages; they rarely read full
