Hackathon 2019 Goes Boldly Where No Engineers Have Gone Before
Hackathon 2019 Goes Boldly Where No Engineers Have Gone Before
Hackathon 2019 Goes Boldly Where No Engineers Have Gone Before
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Innovation and ingenuity are part of the collective DNA at WP Engine, where we work hard to ensure the products and services we offer our customers are tapped into the latest and most powerful technologies.
While some of that spark comes from our roots as an eight-year-old startup, it’s also part of a pioneering spirit we actively foster through various activities during the year. Arguably some of the most impactful—and most fun—are our bi-annual hackathons, where teams of developers and engineers square off with one another for a set of highly coveted awards and trophies.
Last week, our first hackathon of the year kicked off with more than a...
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
The annual Greater Austin Business Awards competition, presented by The Austin Chamber of Commerce, is designed to honor excellence in all aspects of business. In order to promote awareness and perpetuate good practices, the Awards recognize companies and organization in the Austin region for
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
Can the blockchain and IoT solve international freight’s issues?
DS: The main technological innovation of IOTA is the Tangle, which is a completely new Blockchain design that gets rid of the blocks and introduces a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) (NOTE: you can read the whitepaper on this technology at http://iotatoken.com/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf). The way the Tangle
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
10 Things Teaching Us About Running Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns
If a solid relationship exists between a crowdfunding platform, the investors and businesses, a route for constant feedbacks will be established. Growth may not always be the answer. Companies that utilize supergrowth techniques are having a difficult time managing their groups after saturation
What B2B Designers Can Learn from B2C About Building Trust
Showing the product in action is useful for many users, particularly for those who can’t download a demo because they have a device on which new software cannot be easily installed without approval (common for enterprise customers). Videos, screenshots, and demos (live or recorded) shed light on
hackathon 2019 goes boldly where no engineers have gone before
Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation
We compared the real Nolitan Hotel website (right) which has a centered logo, with an altered version that shows the logo in the top left corner (left). In the other 3 hotel sites we examined, brands with left logos were recalled more frequently, but the effect was not statistically significant
Vanity Metrics: Add Context to Add Meaning
A cumulative curve such as the number of app downloads (red) will always increase, regardless of any other factors. In contrast, a graph capturing a ratio, like that between the number of new active users and the number of downloads within a week (blue) is a much more meaningful measure, as it
Instructional Overlays and Coach Marks for Mobile Apps
In the following proposed redesign for the Makr app, the primary actions that the user should take are clearly outlined in a digestible format of images with ultra-short text. People can immediately understand that their goal is to personalize their chosen template, and what they can do to
Why Personas Fail
Personas do work — or, more accurately, they often work. But humans have a great ability to generalize from a single observation, so it’s understandable that somebody could sour on personas (or any UX technique) if her one experience was a bad one. You can appeal to the logical side of most
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
Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites
If you must support coupon codes in situations when a coupon may not be available on the site, it’s best not to provide an open text field. A better solution is to provide a text link to expose a text field. This design is less likely to prime users and send them on a coupon quest as many
hackathon 2019 goes boldly where no engineers have gone before
How Community Can Drive Commerce: A Lesson from China’s Little Redbook
The success of China’s Redbook illustrates the power of community and trustworthiness in ecommerce. Redbook encourages participation in its ecommerce community in order to build quality, trustworthy content. By combining this strong community with other tactics that establish its products’
UX Responsibilities in Scrum Ceremonies
Sometimes, UX may leave the sprint demo feeling overwhelmed by the number of new feature requests or less-than-ideal feedback received. When this happens, document the feedback in an organized way, such as tagging it with categories such as to-do, to-clarify, and to-persuade. Work with your product
Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants
No one likes to be surprised by some rigid rule that prevents them from getting what they need (or forces them to accept something they don’t want). Explain the policy, but meet customer needs within reason. Mashed potatoes instead of fries? Hold the special sauce? Not a problem. Don’t be that
Journey Mapping 101
An example of a simplistic, high-level customer-journey map depicting how the persona “Jumping Jamie” switches her mobile plan. While all comprehensive journey maps should include key components, what the map chooses to prioritize can (and should) depend on the goal of the journey-mapping
Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done
While the same job-to-be-done may have different requirements for different user groups, the reverse is also true: one user group (or persona) may “hire” the product for different jobs in different contexts. For example, I use the same flight-booking website for both work travel and vacation
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
SEO DIY: Optimize Your Startup’s Website Yourself
Anyone who pays attention to the world of search engine optimization knows that maximizing your company’s search results on Google and other search engines is not something you can do with a quick pin here and a hasty status update there. It’s a full-time job. But if you’re
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
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
hackathon 2019 goes boldly where no engineers have gone before
Enterprise Community Event and C2C Event Platform Bevy Raises $6.4 Million
The details of the business and other operations, such as the speakers, ticketing and signage – all take a high level of implementation coordination. Hence the support from the HQ at Startup Grind. Every single detail creates an obstacle to be fixed. The ticketing isn’t working. Help! The
For Startups, a SaaS Solution is an HR Killer App
One of the things that startups often struggle with is how to build a workplace culture that prioritizes diversity and inclusion. That’s what the Greenhouse ATS solution aims to help with. It does so by being one of the most data-centric ATS systems available to the startup segment, including
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Ad Placement for Mobile
Another main downfall of many mobile ad placements is their tendency to create the “illusion of completeness,” or a false floor, on a page. An advertisement can easily signal to users that they have reached the end of the page's relevant content. This effect is exacerbated when the ad is large
The Same Link Twice on the Same Page: Do Duplicates Help or Hurt?
It’s true that duplicating a link can increase overall traffic to a destination, but that’s simply because you are promoting that item more heavily than others and giving it more screen space. Don’t lose sight of the bigger picture by focusing only on one metric: the extra traffic from one
Usability Insights From Sun Microsystem's 1997 Web Design
The balance between looks and speed was resolved by a design that utilizes plain-and-fast HTML (prettied up with style sheets) to define the basic features of the page. Visual enhancements like the Sun logo and other graphic elements will fill in more slowly the first time a user visits but will
