SXSW 2019 is just days away. Beginning this Friday , digital pioneers, business leaders, and artists from around the world will head to Austin for the annual festival. For ten days, the capital city will be bustling with the best of music, technology, and film.
WP Engine is proud to take part in SXSW 2019, and this year, WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner will take part in two different panel discussions. WP Engine will also host two networking events alongside tech partners AWS and Google Cloud. Additionally, we will host a party for our WP Engine affiliates. Finally, in partnership with our digital marketing magazine Velocitize , thought leaders from...
Domain Name Servers (DNS) are the equivalent of The Yellow Pages for the Internet. They store and maintain a directory of domain names and translate them to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Humans access information online via domain names like wpengine.com and web browsers communicate via IP
The process of disabling the 5.0 editor should not be a hassle. In the coming days, we will be rolling out an admin notice that will display on the Dashboard page* of your site(s). This notice will have information about adopting the new editor and will provide buttons to install/activate the
Almost three years ago, WP Engine expanded its global presence and opened a second international office in Limerick, Ireland (our first was in London). Known as a city where technology and culture collide, Limerick has been the perfect location for WP Engine to grow and evolve. At its start, the
Blockchain’s Mainstream Debut Awaits Dev Ecosystem Evolution
EOS itself was created as a response to Ethereum’s sluggish transaction speeds. and It’s now waving the banner for blockchain scaling with internal, but also external endeavors to make it the fastest chain around. With a quicker DPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake) consensus model the blockchain’s
Blockchain Metrics Will Add Transparency to Investing and Better Inform Investors
To this day, a lack of transparency represents one of the primary issues complicating the ability of investors to make informed investment decisions. The aggregation of financial data gives investors more purposeful and comprehensive data, and the integration of blockchain technology injects more
IoT solution to supply chain management
Smart supply chain is seen to be the ultimate solution for the existing problems. It makes the asset traceable, identifiable and interactive. In addition, it reduces costs and brings visibility to the processes in SCM. Internet of Things (IoT) is the underlying technology that enables this
Eartracking: A New UX-Research Method
Although humans don’t have floppy ears, our ears don’t visibly turn in the direction of potential dangers or potential food. However, evolution has preserved vestiges of ear-turning muscles, as is clearly demonstrated by anybody who wiggles their ears. Humans have some ability for small ear
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
It used to be that you would buy two or three nice outfits to have in your wardrobe and would rotate them for special events. But in today’s era, with social media like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, all your friends will see what you wear, whether they go to the same event or not. And even
Service Blueprinting in Practice: Who, When, What
In defining service blueprinting, respondents with the artifact mental model placed an emphasis on the artifact, map, or visualization that is created in the service-blueprinting process, rather than on the process, people, or method used to create it. This model can be limited and limiting
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
Wireflows: A UX Deliverable for Workflows and Apps
This low-fidelity wireflow shows a simple user task. The use of screen designs, rather than abstract flowchart symbols, keeps focus on the product with which users will be interacting. While wireflows can be created in high fidelity for the purposes of communicating detailed design
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 Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
This is what level-1 people can do: “Tasks typically require the use of widely available and familiar technology applications, such as email software or a web browser. There is little or no navigation required to access the information or commands required to solve the problem. The problem may be
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Don't Force Users to Register Before They Can Buy
TinyPrints.com required that users create an account and also automatically subscribed users to the newsletter, mentioning above the Create Account button that “You will be subscribed to the Tiny Prints email newsletter” (stated in tiny print, which makes users weary right there.) Being signed
Design Thinking 101
Imagine your goal is to improve an onboarding experience for new users. In this phase, you talk to a range of actual users. Directly observe what they do, how they think, and what they want, asking yourself things like ‘what motivates or discourages users?’ or ‘where do they experience
UX Research Cheat Sheet
User-experience research methods are great at producing data and insights, while ongoing activities help get the right things done. Alongside R&D, ongoing UX activities can make everyone’s efforts more effective and valuable. At every stage in the design process, different UX methods can keep
Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes of 2008
The opposite problem — having something that looks like a GUI control when it isn't one — can reduce usability even more. We often see text and headlines that look like links (by being colored or underlined, for example) but aren't clickable. When users click these look-alikes and nothing
Decision Frames: How Cognitive Biases Affect UX Practitioners
Framing is a well-known phenomenon in psychology. Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky explored the effect of decision frames and found that the exact same information can lead to opposite conclusions, depending on the frame used to present the decision. For example, a price which is
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
8 predictions for the future of IoT in 2017
As IoT gains momentum, the volume of data generated will be stratospheric. Not only will there be more data, but there will be different types of data, and data from sources that have yet to be considered. Big Data analytics will evolve into a distributed analytics model, which will help with the
Smart Hospitals: the Next Step in Healthcare IT
To reduce the workload on doctors, new forms of primary care are being trialed and in some cases, implemented, across the world. Instead of having every patient visit a doctor for a diagnosis, some minor illnesses are being diagnosed using the web and app-based self-serve tools. In some cases
Meet Meural, Fine Art on My Walls at Home
If you were unlucky, you were also terrorized by these frames in the parents room, family room and the pool-table room. It would be very difficult to study and graph the ptsd these little gems may have caused through the years. With the beautiful Meural — you are welcome to help your children
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Top 10 Latin American IoT Startups to Watch
Based in Santiago, Citysense offers a shared infrastructure platform that helps fast-growing cities improve their quality of life. The company developed a network of sensors, located across cities that use IoT technology to communicate about specific city data. Its products can show a city’s air
Enterprises and AI Need to Connect Better – Here’s Why
Before the large-scale adoption of AI came into play, there was much speculation over the way it could potentially disrupt numerous industries. Many were concerned it would replace humans and somehow take over the world. To the contrary, AI serves as a counterpart to humans by increasing efficiency
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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
Without the true page title, people are left with no clues for the content of the tab. Users often keep frequently visited pages such as Facebook or news websites open throughout the day in order to revisit them and check for updates. Users who are shopping or conducting research may be parked on
Visual Design Terms Cheat Sheet
Given its importance, all UX designers (and everyone on crossfunctional development teams) should have at least a baseline understanding of visual design and share a common language. But even proficient UX designers are not always versed in visual design, and few teams are able to create a solid
