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...
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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
FinTech is Transforming the Finance Industry
As with other emerging and disruptive industries, FinTech has drawn the attention of legislators. In the United States, lawmakers have expressed that FinTech firms need to put more effort into creating opportunities for under served consumers and enterprises. Traditionally, cite lawmakers, these
Blockchain Trends that Everyone Should Watch Out For 2019
Amid 2019, we may not see an arrival to the highs of 2017, when the estimation of crypto resources available for use overall approached 75% of a trillion dollars. We could see a continuation of the time of relative strength that we saw amid 2018. Also, as the open’s comprehension of what
Split Buttons: Definition
Some split buttons have both an icon and text in the label component. While icons are optional, a text label is always necessary. Text improves learnability, discoverability, and findability, and increases the target size of the button, thus providing a Fitts’s Law benefit. The default choice in
hackathon 2019 goes boldly where no engineers have gone before
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Why are we willing to sleep in strangers’ beds, or conversely, let strangers into our homes? We do so because Airbnb has established a trusted, secure, and easy to use customer experience. Similar to Rent the Runway, Airbnb is a player in the growing “sharing” economy. The peer-to-peer online
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Why are we willing to sleep in strangers’ beds, or conversely, let strangers into our homes? We do so because Airbnb has established a trusted, secure, and easy to use customer experience. Similar to Rent the Runway, Airbnb is a player in the growing “sharing” economy. The peer-to-peer online
Closeness of Actions and Objects in GUI Design
That mainstream corporate websites make blatant usability mistakes is understandable because most members of their teams aren't grounded in graduate degrees in human-computer interaction. (That's why I have recently added foundational courses, such as The Human Mind, to my usability conference
The Need for Speed
The figure shows the distribution of the speeds with which users have connected to the Internet according to the last six Georgia Tech Web user surveys. Two things are clear from the figure: users are replacing slow modems (14.4) with fast modems (28.8 or 33.6), but the proportion of users who
Dashboards: Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand
Plotting a 2-variable chart in 3D is often done to (arguably) improve aesthetics, but will make the chart much more difficult to interpret quickly and accurately, as it distorts the shapes and alignment of the visual features showing data. While area-based graphs (such as pie charts and tree maps
Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants
Don't be quick to assume anything based on customer appearance or demographics, because assumptions offend, and people tend not to be WYSIWYG. Hungry people are often irritable, but when satisfied, they can transform into your happiest customers. People who are used to bad service may arrive with
hackathon 2019 goes boldly where no engineers have gone before
Designing for Different Types of E-Commerce Shoppers
A main complaint of one-time shoppers is site registration. The vast majority of shoppers in our study complained about the laborious process of registration and checkout. But one-time shoppers were particularly annoyed by required registration, since they were doubtful that they would ever return
Children’s Exposure to Digital Technology Causes Parental Anxiety
These parents’ concerns were centered around the potential dependence on technology at the expense of time spent doing “real,” productive activities or having meaningful personal interactions that were not mediated by technology. These physical activities and interactions were seen as more
Design Charrettes & Team Sketching: ½ Inspiration, ½ Buy-In
You can successfully conduct and use information gleaned in design charrettes at any time during a project cycle. Of course, set realistic goals for the session based on what can be done now. For example, don’t set a grand goal when your website is almost complete. Conversely, set sights high
Accordions for Complex Website Content on Desktops
An accordion menu is a vertically stacked list of headers that can be clicked to reveal or hide content associated with them. It is one of many ways you can expose content to users in a progressive manner. Allowing people to have control over the content by expanding it or deferring it for later
Journey Mapping 101
The terms ‘user journey map’ and ‘customer journey map’ can be used interchangeably. Both reference a visualization of a person using your product or service. While the argument can be made that the term ‘customer’ does a disservice to the method (because, especially for certain
Is more IoT driving more cyber attacks?
Nowadays, both iOS and Android will send out an upgraded version regularly, even every app on our phone will release upgrades frequently. Some users think these upgrades are annoying and choose to shut down this function, but most of the upgrades are related to security issues. As normal users
3 High-Tech Ways Companies Are Fighting Cybercrime Right Now
In order to safeguard against this, companies need to fight fire with fire, employing AI technology in their own cybercrime defense systems. These algorithms are designed to detect unusual behavior because they were developed with the goal of pattern recognition. For example, machine learning is
Groundbreaking Tips for Managing Big Data
Big data is the type of data that is characterized by informational and technical features. A huge and ever-growing data volume, variety of data formats and log of records nature belong to the informational aspects. Traditional solutions were no longer suitable for capturing, storing and processing
Building a Startup Culture that Encourages Wellness
For the most part, the components that help to create a culture of wellness in a startup have one thing in common: they’re all about creating a support structure. This goes beyond making certain perks and services available to employees; it instead aims at modifying the work environment to
hackathon 2019 goes boldly where no engineers have gone before
Is Artificial Intelligence Still Relevant for Startups?
The larger the data set you can gain access to, the more interesting work your platform can do. Look at CentralSquare Technologies, an AI startup that connects emergency call centers around the country. Emergency dispatch centers ran independently for a long time before startups like CentralSquare
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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Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
When users want to shop online for an expensive item such as a house, a car, or a two-year service contract, they spend more time researching their purchase beforehand. Research shows that for costly products, the actual purchase may occur many days after the initial visit to a site. Shoppers start
Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation
It appears that other factors (such as the contrast, padding, and legibility of the brand name) affect brand recall more than the position in the center of the page versus the top left corner. For example, the Nolitan hotel websites had a background image behind the logo, which may have
Nielsen's Law of Internet Bandwidth
Nielsen's law is similar to the more established Moore's law. Unfortunately, comparing the two laws shows that bandwidth grows slower than computer power. Moore's law says that computers double in capabilities every 18 months, which corresponds to about 60% annual growth. As shown in the table
