We’ve been talking about the mobile web for a while now. Before the smartphone took over, users could use a modified web browser on their phones to render slow, frustrating versions of the desktop experience. In 2007, with the proliferation of the smartphone, a browser began rendering the full experience.
Soon, everyone got on board and organizations began creating mobile versions of their site. However, inefficient and clunky infrastructure left users dependent on their desktop. Finally, the mobile web reached a point of maturation with the creation of Responsive Web Design. Using the same code for desktop and mobile and controlling for preferences, development became more efficient but mobile speed...
In an effort to help the WordPress community grow and prosper as well as expand and add value to the WP Engine Digital Experience platform, WP Engine recently acquired StudioPress. For our customers, this means, in addition to the Genesis framework, they’ll have access to 35 premium themes. All
At the end of September, we held our 2018 WP Engine Summit in Austin, Texas. Last week, agencies, brands, and digital innovators from EMEA came together in London for the WP Engine EU Summit. Attendees discussed the future of digital experiences, Gen Z’s perception of the Internet, and the
Last week, WP Engine employees from our Limerick and London offices came together for the bi-annual All Hands event in Limerick. All Hands is a 2-day event where employees come to engage with, collaborate, and strategize with employees from other offices. This year’s theme was “Boldly
Optimizing Business Decisions With Blockchain Technology
With the advancement of DAO platforms, the future of business decision making is bright. Organizations in the near future will be able to choose where to place their projects from a variety of options, saving on cost, promoting transparency and driving efficiency. With more DAO innovation
Businesses Broke Ground on Blockchain. What Can Civic Groups Learn?
Although 84 percent of global companies are dabbling in the decentralized ledger technology, the truth is that 92 percent of blockchain projects have failed. Firms have found the technology’s promise to verify data in a decentralized way appealing, but they’ve struggled to implement it
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
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
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The Science of Silence: Intentional Silence as a Moderation Technique
It is interesting to note that research suggests a higher degree of discomfort with prolonged silences in Anglophone cultures, such as the United States. For example, the same study by Koudenburg, Postmes, and Gordijn mentioned in the beginning of this article found that, while English speakers
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
Confirmation Dialogs Can Prevent User Errors (If Not Overused)
In graphical user interfaces, a confirmation dialog usually takes the form of a modal dialog box that pops up and must be attended to before the system will execute the user’s command. (Other interaction styles may use different formats for confirmation dialogs. For example, a voice UI might use
Top 10 Intranet Trends of 2016
Business people have learned that the intranet is the perfect place to communicate their goals and statuses to all employees. This information helps employees realize how the organization is doing and motivates them to work toward and achieve organizational goals. It also adds a level of respect
Group Form Elements Effectively Using White Space
You might be wondering, "if proximity is such a problem, then why not place the labels inside the text fields?". Don't be tempted. When you place the labels inside the text field as filler text, the label disappears when users input their text and they must remember it as they fill in the field
Does User Annoyance Matter?
Knowing a better design exists made it painful to sit, day after day, and watch users fight with the mouse to scroll through the huge menu. Sometimes users selected the wrong menu option and then had to waste even more time with the drop-down. And, in this study, we mainly tested young, able-bodied
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The Mobile Checkout Experience
Recognizable third-party checkout options such as Paypal or Apple Pay can be helpful, but too many options can cause choice overload. For each payment option offered, make the distinction between each one clear. The most common checkout process should be the most prominent on the page, or listed
Adding an Item to a Shopping Cart: Provide Clear, Persistent Feedback
Saks Fifth Avenue showed a nonmodal overlay that didn’t disappear on its own after the user added a product to the cart. While the overlay obscured some of the page content (which we don’t recommend), it still kept the main product information visible. In addition, the nonmodal nature of the
7 Tips for Successful Customization
You may want to allow users to select the background color of their interface, but is there adequate payoff or interest in that option to account for the additional cost of implementation? You may want to allow users to move content areas around a page to create a unique experience, but again, it
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Before a siege, Blackbeard dressed himself in a dark heavy coat and captain’s hat to accentuate his domineering stature. He strapped pistols to his chest and tucked lit, smoking fuses under his hat and in his beard to create an image reminiscent of the devil himself having just emerged from some
Variable Fonts and Wide-Screen Layouts: Adopting Data-Driven Progressive Enhancements
Let’s consider a case from the history of the web, at the time when 20% of users were still using slow dial-up modems. You would like to use a nice big hero image that would increase page load time by 1 minute for these dial-up users, even though the delay would be negligible for broadband users
7 Companies Poised to Disrupt the Mobile Enterprise
The Disruptathon series came to San Diego this week for CTIA Enterprise and Apps to show off seven companies that could be poised to disrupt enterprise mobility. The last time we ran into Disrupathon the series was looking for startups that could disrupt the news industry at the USA Today building
The Evolution of Healthcare Data: 5 Little Known Facts
With more hospitals using EHR, HITECH and HIPAA were revised and expanded in 2013. Fixes included increased protection and control for patients over their own data. Today, hospitals must adhere to strict data security guidelines or face non-compliance consequences. HIPAA audits look at about 180
The Way Forward: Responsibly Deployed Facial Recognition
Precisely because this technology is inevitable, it is imperative we responsibly deliver on the opportunity for facial recognition to benefit both people and businesses, whether that be for security, efficiency or convenience. Unfortunately, today’s cameras are one-way devices. They record data
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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ShiftLeft Raises $20 Million to Ensure Security Keeps Pace with Accelerating Software
Recognizing this growing issue, investors are betting big on solutions that can help developers better secure code, and offer customized security for every version of every application in the DevOps cycle. In fact, application-specific cloud security startup ShiftLeft today announced that it has
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
Mobile’s New Power Couple: PWA and AMP | Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored
Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored
Sadly, in this case, neither search, nor navigation, nor the Population Finder led the majority of users to the correct answer. Indeed, search was particularly bad on this site. One user said, "I know where I can probably find it faster: Google," and promptly abandoned the official Census Bureau
Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
In a word, no. There were no statistically significant differences (according to a two-sample t-test) in how people rated the hotels with traditional left-aligned logos, compared to the ‘unconventional’ right-aligned logos. In fact, in most cases, the left-aligned logos were rated slightly more
Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
Clearly it’s possible to disregard the standard for top-left logo placement and still end up with a reasonable website. If you were to show users the website above and ask them what the name of the hotel is, they’d be able to figure it out. It’s easy to see how a designer might decide that
