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.
At the end of September, we held our 2018 WP Engine Summit in Austin, Texas. Last week, agencies, brands, and digital innovators from EMEA came together in London for the WP Engine EU Summit. Attendees discussed the future of digital experiences, Gen Z’s perception of the Internet, and the
Our Agency Partner Program can help your agency grow its business with WordPress. Already, more than 1,450 agencies partner globally with WP Engine so they can bring better digital experiences to their clients. That’s more than 2x the number of players who competed in this year’s World
When it comes to facilitating a truly enjoyable and productive workplace, it takes more than just the promise of perks and ping pong. Employees want their workplaces to reflect what they value and expect out of the company they work for: trustworthiness, morality, and the opportunity to grow both in
Decentralized P2P Lending Services vs Networks
Trustlines Network is an Ethereum-based P2P platform for creating IOU networks. Based on the original concept behind Ripple, introduced by Ryan Fugger in 2004, the Trustlines Network will allow users to generate money and make secure payments among themselves. The high-level idea is that
Robotics and Big Data are Transforming Nursing: 4 Key Insights
Humans have the capacity for empathy, common sense, ethics, and creativity. They can also develop leadership skills and improve healthcare by inspiring and motivating teams. These are complex skills that robots do not have, leaving them ill-equipped to nurture patients or make smart decisions on
Blockchain Trends that Everyone Should Watch Out For 2019
What we should see rather is consequences of progressively thought to be, develop tries in the blockchain field. Organizations, for example, Walmart — is putting resources into arrangements intended to shore up sanitation gauges. In the wake of emergencies — for example, 2018’s
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
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Design Thinking 101
Despite these (and other) early examples of human-centric products, design has historically been an afterthought in the business world, applied only to touch up a product’s aesthetics. This topical design application has resulted in corporations creating solutions which fail to meet their
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Brand is a tool for influencing choice. Brand is not made of visuals or words alone — it’s not a logo or a slogan. Nor is it a figurehead, such as Steve Jobs. Those things are simply ways to communicate the brand. Although a figurehead such as Elon Musk or a logo such as McDonald’s golden
Toggle-Switch Guidelines
Every morning, I wake up, pour water into my tea kettle, and flip the switch on. Once the water is boiling, I turn the kettle off and pour myself a cup. The switch on my kettle is an example of a toggle. If you pay close attention, you’ll notice that toggle switches are all around us, because
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
Overloaded vs. Generic Commands
For mobile apps, it's usually a good idea to have an "application home" that users can return to as a safe base after exploring the apps various areas. This is particularly important for content-rich apps, such as magazines or newspapers. Used this way, the "home" button serves as a generic
Journey Mapping: 9 Frequently Asked Questions
The end of a journey-mapping project does not mean that the map is final (see above about future-state and current-state maps). Journey maps should be iterated so the map matches the current experience, even after system changes have been made. For remote teams, selecting a tool that allows easy
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The State of Transactional Email
In preparation for the fourth edition of our report on transactional email and confirmation messages (part of our Ecommerce User Experience report series), we conducted two user research studies: in-person usability testing, and a longitudinal diary study. The main types of transactional email
Status Trackers and Progress Updates: 16 Design Guidelines
Many companies decide to use their own site-embedded trackers instead of simply directing users to the tracker provided by the shipping companies (such as UPS or FedEx). There are some advantages to doing so, but also some serious downsides. The big advantage is that people can be kept on the site
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Though interaction has always been important for forming customer impressions in service industries — customers would quit going to McDonalds if they were consistently treated rudely by staff no matter how highly they rate the fries — what’s new is that interaction and user experience have
Beware Horizontal Scrolling and Mimicking Swipe on Desktop
Scrolling and “swiping” horizontally on the desktop is a different experience than on touchscreen tablets and mobile devices. This is one more example of why it is important to understand that people use mobile devices, tablets, and desktops differently, and why it’s beneficial to optimize
Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners
Perhaps the most important shared insights from the professionals surveyed were the responses to the question, “When does journey mapping fail?” Respondents shared their stories of when journey mapping was a fruitless endeavor because it was not shared, no buy-in occurred, the map wasn’t
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
Understanding Today’s IT Hierarchy
This position also averages between one and nine years of experience. The IT Engineer usually requires a bachelor’s degree in IT or computer science. The average salary is between $68,000 and $85,000. There are variations in this department and depending on the type of IT engineer, number of
6 Emerging Cyber Threats to Lookout for in 2019
2018 showed us an accelerated growth in cyber threat activities. Data breaches, attacks using malicious software and insider threats were among the most familiar forms of attack. Many well-known organizations suffered from these cybersecurity disasters and compromised data of millions of users
Sun, Sand, and Software: Why Miami is Fired-Up for Tech
While some entrepreneurs may consider founding companies in San Francisco or Austin, Caribu CEO Maxeme Tuchman never did: “I made a business decision to keep Caribu in Miami, and there are a lot of reasons we haven’t picked up and moved to San Francisco. This ecosystem is incredible, and its
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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
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
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100 Million Websites
Even though there will be many more sites to come in absolute numbers, what matters to the user experience is the rate of change , which has stabilized. From tech explosion to commodity in only 15 years: that's in itself an indication of the fast-moving nature of the modern world. It probably took
Four Bad Designs
The New York Times is probably losing the least money; most users will simply skip the no-scent link. At the same time, of course, the generic link has an opportunity cost: in its place, the newspaper could offer a link to content that's closely related to the current article. People who actually
Simplicity Wins over Abundance of Choice
Adding marginally useful features to a product can result in overly complicated rather than desirable interfaces. The paradox is that consumers are attracted to a large number of choices and may consider a product more appealing if it has many capabilities, but when it comes to making decisions and
