Are you ready for 2019? More importantly, is your website? Web Week is designed to help you take advantage of low traffic and inactivity by encouraging you to make changes to your site, try out new things, and revamp for the new year.
During Web Week, we encourage our customers to take advantage of this low-stress time of year to create more personalized, dynamic, and better-performing digital experiences. For brands and agencies, this is the perfect time to kick your feet up, re-access, and get creative. It’s the ideal time to get inspired and do all the things you’ve been neglecting during the hectic holiday season.
Despite concerns that Gutenberg would launch too early, that simply hasn’t been the case, and in recent months a herculean effort has gone into checking a considerable subset of the most-used plugins to make sure they’re Gutenberg-compatible. An equally heavy lift has been undertaken by
At WP Engine, we’ve realized this is just as important as the speed and SEO that helps you show up in search rankings, or the analytics and targeting features that help you cater to narrower sets of demographics. Great-looking websites are the basis of effective digital experiences, and with our
The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
Past Bitcoin to Making Money from the Blockchain
There are jobs listed from all over the world for every specialty from developer to trader to meme specialist (it’s real – look it up). There are also gig economy opportunities for blockchain and cryptocurrency companies if you don’t want to quit your day job. You can even do gigs and get
10 Things Teaching Us About Running Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns
Crowdfunding platforms must not only ensure that you’re funded by investors but also ascertains that they are accredited. Accredited investors are a special class of investors who are able to access investments that regular investors can not. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits
Blockchain Trends that Everyone Should Watch Out For 2019
Blockchain‘s development in recent years has been relentless and robust. All things being equal, this weighty innovation still has a ton to offer and keeps on holding much guarantee. Proceeding from a year ago’s buzz and the passageway of controllers, blockchain is ready to advance much
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Brand is a subjective perception of value based on the sum of a person’s experiences with a product or company that ultimately influences that person’s sentiment and decisions in the marketplace. Brand is a tool for influencing choice. Brand is not made of visuals or words alone — it’s not
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Brand Vocabulary in the Context of UX: Key Terms Defined
At first, brand promise in the context of UX may seem abstract. However, think about using brand promise as a metric. Before release, return to your stated promise and compare the experience. Is your brand fulfilling its promise to its users? If not, how can you use your role as a designer to
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
In this step, the team moves through the stickies on the board collaboratively and clusters similar notes that belong to the same quadrant. Name your clusters with themes that represent each group (for example, “validation from others” or “research”). Repeat themes in each quadrant if
Apps Within Apps: UX Lessons from WeChat Mini Programs
Another user, a 24-year-old female, had a similar problem with a mini-program version of a food-delivery service called Meituan. “The first thing I do when I open the delivery app is getting some coupons. That app will automatically show some coupons every time you log in, and I don't know if the
10 Best Application UIs
But Xero might be a more interesting example, simply because it targets the traditionally dry domain of accounting. One of its main features lets users automatically reconcile bookkeeping entries with bank account transactions. As a match is made, the 2 matching entries are removed from the list of
Assessing the Usability of a User Interface Standard
In one small experiment, 26 computer science students who were taking a user interface design class were asked to design an interface for a hypothetical company having a two page user interface standard. The standard described the use of several special function keys and the way the screen was
Ecommerce Usability Improvements
However, user expectations for search quality are far beyond what today's websites actually deliver. As with most aspects of web usability, user expectations are set by their aggregated user experience from around the web. (As Jakob's Law states: users spend the majority of their time on other
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Helpful Filter Categories and Values for Better UX
The SPCA of Texas helpfully provides filters to help people find adoptable pets that fit their preferences. Unfortunately, one of their filter categories, Behavior, contains the values: Purple, Orange, and Green. What is a Green behavior? Likely, it’s some sort of internal code used within the
UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
Navigational options and product categories need to be clear, with labels that make sense to users on their own, as well as in relation to other options on the site. Users must be able to quickly understand each category, and how it differs from the others in order to decide where to click. When
UX Stories Communicate Designs
Experiences are naturally hard to communicate, especially when they are still at idea-only stage. UX stories are a powerful way to articulate abstract concepts by focusing on the user value that will be derived from the experience. Rather describing the finite details of how a user may move
UX Responsibilities in Scrum Ceremonies
It’s easy for UX professionals to question whether they should attend Scrum ceremonies and, at times, UX may even perceive these meetings as barriers to productivity. However, UX should be involved in Scrum ceremonies to stay engaged and aware of what’s going on with the team. For more on
Troubleshooting Group Ideation: 10 Fixes for More and Better UX Ideas
With looming deadlines, email notifications, and text messages competing for attention, it can be hard to keep everyone in the session focused on ideation. Even when teammates manage to stay on task, their engagement in the session can be diminished by the stress of other priorities waiting at
Operational Technology in Industrial IoT Can’t Tolerate IT-Style Patching. “Threat Analysis” is a Safe and Powerful Solution
A recent Forrester survey of IT and OT/LOB leaders showed IT and OT managers evenly divided on whether IT or OT is responsible for security, according to InformationWeek’s DARKReading. As an alarming result of this standoff, reports Forrester, an unacceptably large number of companies – 59
Enterprise App Design: Does iOS Fare with Android in terms of Security?
More enterprises are investing in mobile applications on platforms preferably iOS. The 2016 enterprise mobile apps report brought out by Adobe reinforces the growing need for enterprises to invest in mobile apps. With Apple constituting a major share of the world smartphone market, iOS tend to be
Is Your Chief Security Officer Prepared for M&A?
Perhaps the most concerning element about this breach is that Starwood seems to have been in the dark about what was going on. The fact that the breach is suspected to have gone on for four years without recognition is evidence that no detection was in place, and no routine reviews of access logs
How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups
Don Ball, Co-Founder and Chief Social Officer at Fueled Collective, has experienced Minnesota’s growth firsthand and has a finger on the pulse of what might be the clearest sign of Minnesota’s entrepreneurial prowess: “Since 2010, we’ve been practically the only coworking game in town
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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
Free Up the World’s Best Entrepreneurs to Keep Inventing
Thomas Edison wasn’t just known for his startup, the Edison Company. He was known as an inventor — and a prolific one at that. He contributed to innovations, including the phonograph, the light bulb, the motion picture camera, and others. In generating ideas and inventions that had a profound
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Scrolling and Attention
This is a representative gaze plot showing that most of the user’s eye fixations are concentrated in the top part of the page, though not always at the very top. The actual distribution of fixations will depend on the specific design and the user’s goal in visiting the page. Occasionally a user
Maximize Content-to-Chrome Ratio, Not the Amount of Content on Screen
Eliminating the search box and replacing it with a magnifying-glass icon has become almost standard on mobile. It doesn’t work as well on the desktop: the space is simply too large and users don’t have the patience to hunt for a small search icon. If you consider using it on the desktop, keep
Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
A left-aligned logo is comfortable for users, but because it’s such a longstanding tradition, this standard is a tempting target to anyone wanting to appear unconventional. Violating this convention seems like an easy way of immediately distinguishing a design from its competitors, and standing
