It’s Time to Take Advantage of Amazing Web Week Savings
Its Time to Take Advantage of Amazing Web Week Savings
It’s Time to Take Advantage of Amazing Web Week Savings
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The holidays are in full swing, and at WP Engine, we’re pleased to tap into the holiday spirit by kicking off our third annual Web Week! Web Week began in 2016 as a way for us to give back to our customers the best way we know how: with spectacular deals and discounts from our partners.
This year, Web Week will run from December 25 through New Year’s Eve in an effort to encourage agencies, brands, and other WordPress users to take advantage of what is typically a low-traffic time of year and launch changes to their websites, try out new plugins or other features, or simply use the time...
A recent study of U.S. smartphone users found that the majority (70 percent) have a clear preference for using company websites over mobile apps when making purchases online. The study, conducted by The Center for Generational Kinetics and commissioned by WP Engine, surveyed over 1,200 U.S
Heather’s leadership at WP Engine has been instrumental in helping the company build an enduring, predictable business, particularly after a key investment from Silver Lake last January, as well as the recent acquisition of StudioPress. Heather also heads a diverse leadership team and has
Heather’s leadership at WP Engine has been instrumental in helping the company build an enduring, predictable business, particularly after a key investment from Silver Lake last January, as well as the recent acquisition of StudioPress. Heather also heads a diverse leadership team and has
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
When Will You Be Able to Use Cryptocurrency to Buy a Pack of Gum?
Even with these developments, the logistics of spending crypto remain complicated. The first hurdle is the IRS, which has classified cryptocurrencies as assets — as opposed to currencies — which makes spending crypto a taxable event. That means you’ll have to figure in a capital gains tax
3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
When users install Viber (a messaging app) on an Android device, they are greeted with 5 system-initiated permission requests in a row, inducing a serious case of request fatigue. These are to access the user’s contacts, photos, camera, microphone, and location. While the user can guess why Viber
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Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
While “branding” products with an identifying mark (definition #1) has been around since people first began trading and selling goods, the use of brands to differentiate products — to truly attempt to influence consumers’ perceptions and choices within a market (definition #2) — is a
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
The distinction here is an important one, and goes well beyond the narrow view of qualitative as “open ended” as in an open-ended survey question. Rather, studies that are qualitative in nature generate data about behaviors or attitudes based on observing them directly, whereas in quantitative
Date-Input Form Fields: UX Design Guidelines
Date-input patterns are not created equal. Implement design patterns that are appropriate for your context. When designing date-entry fields support text input and consider whether or not you have an international audience. Avoid designs that are ambiguous because they can cause people to become
The Need for Speed
Research on a wide variety of hypertext systems has shown that users need response times of less than one second when moving from one page to another if they are to navigate freely through an information space. Traditional human factors research into response times also shows the need for
Date-Input Form Fields: UX Design Guidelines
Date-input patterns are not created equal. Implement design patterns that are appropriate for your context. When designing date-entry fields support text input and consider whether or not you have an international audience. Avoid designs that are ambiguous because they can cause people to become
"Get Started" Stops Users
We’ve seen this problem before when we wrote about the illusion of completeness. In a prior study we asked 8 users to visit a meal-delivery website and find out what service that company offered. Six of those participants clicked on the Get Started button because it seemed to match their
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Design Thinking 101
This is the most important part of design thinking, but it is the one most often forgotten. As Don Norman preaches, “we need more design doing.” Design thinking does not free you from the actual design doing. It’s not magic. Milton Glaser’s words resonate: “There’s no such thing as a
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
While most usability studies should rely more on behavior, methods that use self-reported information can still be quite useful to designers. For example, card sorting provides insights about users' mental model of an information space, and can help determine the best information architecture
Parallel Design and Testing by Jakob Nielsen and Jan Maurits Faber
Note that the designer who moved from version 2.y to 3.y had access to the initial parallel versions' test data and achieved substantial measured usability improvements. This designer compared version 2.y's test results with those from the four original versions and looked closely at the original
Accordions for Complex Website Content on Desktops
Another situation in which accordions are helpful is when the information is restricted to very small spaces, such as on mobile devices. On small screens people often stop scrolling before reaching the end of an extremely long page. If the page has several loosely related pieces of information
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
Cybersecurity in IoT: Achieving Digital Security in an Age of Surveillance
This is especially true with IoT. All of our connected devices continuously broadcast our information, and the collection can be used in unimaginable ways. Former director of national intelligence James Clapper said during congressional testimony that “In the future, intelligence services might
The Biggest Hacking Risk? Your Employees
One of the easiest vectors for a cyberattack is employee negligence. Easily avoidable mistakes, such as using the same passwords at home and at work, put company data at risk. According to a report from information security company Shred-it, 47 percent of business leaders attribute data breaches to
To Prevent Fraud, Healthcare Organizations Must Streamline Their Data Processes
In this case, the insurance company will hold the bill for around 15 days while it tries to unsuccessfully process it, at which point it goes back to the hospital with a request for more information. When the back-and-forth process drags out for 60-plus days, thousands of dollars are wasted on
How to Get into Tech Without a Tech Background
If you look at the greatest recent tech companies there are plenty of newcomers that aren’t even considered tech, let alone, high tech. Uber and Airbnb, are less about tech and more about their concept. You can run a tech company without a tech background but find the best tech you can when
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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
How Do You Determine Which Partners Will Fuel Your Success?
Preferences and tendencies don’t necessarily have to be equal within a partnership; a partner with a higher risk tolerance can balance a partner averse to risk. But when other factors — such as money or clout — take precedence and allow one partner to steer the ship, it can damage the entire
It’s Time to Take Advantage of Amazing Web Week Savings | Iterative Design and Testing of Icon Usability
Iterative Design and Testing of Icon Usability
The second row shows our next round of attempts where a person was used to represent the developers. As you can see, we couldn't restrain ourselves from having a propellerhead despite the fact that we had rejected this aspect from the first iteration of the home page. The first developer icon was
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design
The website of J.K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) might be an exception to the avoiding-mystery rule. The site feels more like an adventure game, but that's appropriate because its primary purpose is to feed fans rumors about Rowling's next book. The site contains many an oblique
Scaling User Interfaces: An Information-Processing Approach
Mobile sites bet on knowing what’s important to the mobile user and trim the content and functionality to fit the narrow mobile channel. The challenge is: how well can designers guess what the user needs will be on mobile? Is it better to have information out there, even if buried in a long page
