When it comes to WordPress themes, there’s a crowded marketplace out there that can often feel difficult to navigate. Yet, at the end of the day, all site owners want to have is a stunning, functional website and an easy path to get there. Sifting through the thousands of themes in existence today is a
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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 StudioPress themes are built using the Genesis
Today, over a hundred companies celebrated the Day of Understanding, a daylong discussion on understanding within each of their respective companies in order to further embrace difference in our organizations, educate employees, and build more inclusive cultures inside and outside the workplace. WP Engine was proud to take part in this event sponsored by the CEO
Matt Mullenweg delivered the State of the Word in Nashville, Tennessee this past weekend. The speech was almost immediately following the release of WordPress’ new editor, Gutenberg. The editor’s progress and release have been much anticipated by the WordPress community. This State of the Word was the first time Mullenweg had addressed the WordPress community
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
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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
When it comes to facilitating a truly enjoyable and productive workplace, it takes more than just the promise of perks and ping pong. Employees want their workplaces to reflect what they value and expect out of the company they work for: trustworthiness, morality, and the opportunity to grow both in
Additionally, two unique awards are also handed out. For this hackathon, they were Customer Inspired, which recognized a project that has real potential to impact our customers in a positive way and was decided on by WP Engine’s Chief Customer Officer, Tina Dobie; and Warp Speed, a Star
FinTech is Transforming the Finance Industry
As the FinTech industry matures, legislators have responded in varying ways. Representatives of the Federal Reserve System (FRS), for instance, have assembled the FinTech High-Priority Initiative to address their concerns about the industry. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has
Blockchain Beyond Banking
And what does this mean for business? From the looks of it, some existing revenue streams may be threatened as blockchain’s prevalence grows. Banks, for example, may find a good chunk of their transaction fees substantially reduced (or even eliminated) because of blockchain technology replacing
Why Mobile Games and App Stores Should Opt for Blockchain
Matej Michalko, Co-founder of ALAX, explains how the platform works, “Using the ALAX platform, customers could purchase tokens in cash through the existing Dragonfly retailer network. Tokens are then used in-app to purchase games and apps direct from the developer, avoiding the additional cost
Service Blueprinting in Practice: Who, When, What
Service blueprints map out the relationship between various service components (people, processes, and props) and customer touchpoints. The process of creating a service blueprint is just as beneficial as the output (the artifact itself). Service blueprinting, as a process, fosters communication
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Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
In digital systems, customers interact with the representation of the brand in the form of websites and other interactive services, making behavior a crucial attribute of brand. The granularity of behavior as a brand attribute can and does vary and can be expressed holistically at the level of
Remote Ideation: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Asynchronous ideation gives people time and space to think through ideas on their own and frees them from the pressure to be a genius on demand. Often, people need to “mull over” a design problem before they can generate potential solutions. If you have some confident and talkative teammates
The Need for Speed
Conservative use of graphics does not imply boring pages. Much can be done by colored table cells and creative (but restrained) use of different fonts. In particular, style sheets can be used to improve page design without incurring a download penalty. If you are using style sheets (and everybody
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
A Checklist for Designing Mobile Input Fields
Whether you're designing web pages, web-based applications (e.g., SaaS), or native mobile apps, one of the basic building blocks is the humble text-input field: a box where the user can enter some text. Uses of this widget are plenty and not the topic of this article. We should point out that there
Store Finders: Why People Still Need Locator Links
The Target mobile app also had a store filter and displayed it prominently in the top header area, directly on the page. All other product filters were available in a filter menu. Exposing the In stock filter makes it discoverable for users who would otherwise not realize the filter exists, as well
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Users' Pagination Preferences and "View All"
Pagination is a necessary evil when you have too many items to easily show them all on one screen. Linear content flows — such as articles like this — should almost never be broken up into multiple screens. It’s better to show the full article on one long screen than to inflict the pain of
The New Ecommerce User Experience: Changes in Users’ Expectations
One study participant was excited to learn that Office Depot archived all of the in-store purchases she made using her business account number. She said, “I didn't have to sit on a call and wait for someone to look up my transaction. What a relief! This is brilliant for businesses that know their
Which UX Deliverables Are Most Commonly Created and Shared?
Figure 6. This diagram shows the five most effective types of deliverables for each of the three audience types. Intersections of different circles represent deliverables considered appropriate for multiple audiences. Only one type of deliverable was considered equally effective with all three
Design Critiques: Encourage a Positive Culture to Improve Products
Design critiques should be a key part of the iterative creative process, but incorporating feedback into your team’s existing process is likely to hit obstacles. It is a given that you will experience people and scenarios that make critiques difficult and frustrating. Often the critique goes
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
6 Emerging Cyber Threats to Lookout for in 2019
2018 showed us an accelerated growth in cyber threat activities. Data breaches, attacks using malicious software and insider threats were among the most familiar forms of attack. Many well-known organizations suffered from these cybersecurity disasters and compromised data of millions of users
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
Your Swag is an Extension of Your Brand, So Don’t Neglect It
The company was founded in 2016 and has seen a massive 300% growth year over year since then. They’ve inked deals with thousands of customers including the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, WeWork, Netflix, and more. The startup is also backed by Uncommon Denominator, the same investors behind
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Open Plan Offices Kill Productivity. Here’s What to Do Instead.
Researchers Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban summarized their findings by stating: “Consistent with the fundamental human desire for privacy and prior evidence that privacy may increase productivity, when office architecture makes everyone more observable or ‘transparent’, it can dampen
5 Ways Blockchain Startups Can Appeal to Enterprises
Though enterprises see the appeal of using blockchain, companies often don’t want to take on the challenge of working with their business partners to create a new blockchain solution. Last year, 74% of organizations in a global blockchain survey said they felt compelled to use a blockchain
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Intelligent Assistants Have Poor Usability: A User Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri
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