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 since Gutenberg’s release just two days earlier.
Mullenweg began the talk by offering the audience a perspective. “With so much going on, I’d like to give WordPress a chance to reintroduce introduce itself,” he said. “WordPress isn’t a physical thing, it’s not a set of code. It’s kind of an idea. It only exists in...
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Blockchain-Based Data Security Taking Over Key Industries
According to the WEF Global Risks Report, the global economy may have suffered $8 trillion in losses because of cybercrime. Blockchain has so far fueled the cryptocurrency industry, and finance, healthcare and real estate leaders see the technology as a possible cybersecurity solution. It can
9 Blockchains Transforming the Way We Pay, Play, and Work
Look past digital currencies’ nosebleed pricing volatility, and you’ll discover a robust, decentralized, secure database. Brands and technologists are quickly figuring out how to put this powerful ledger to good use. Here are several real-world examples that demonstrate cryptos’
Crypto Micropayments: An Exciting Future of Blockchain Transactions
There are plenty of transactions that occur which could benefit from the security and speed of blockchain, from making secure in-store purchases and the buying of tickets to events like sports matches and concerts. Blockchain also gives us a much-needed layer of confidence in keeping age-restricted
Intranet Design After a Merger or Acquisition
For example, maybe the intranet at an acquired organization was highly collaborative, with social features and lively usage, but the intranet of the parent company has no social features. Making employees switch to the parent intranet takes away the possibility to collaborate, share, learn, and
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3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
App permission requests allow users to remain in control of their data. Users perform a cost–benefit analysis when deciding whether to accept a permission request. It’s important that designers think about how to communicate the benefits and when to make the request, so that users aren’t
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Though interaction has always been important for forming customer impressions in service industries — customers would quit going to McDonalds if they were consistently treated rudely by staff no matter how highly they rate the fries — what’s new is that interaction and user experience have
Date-Input Form Fields: UX Design Guidelines
Prevent users from selecting illogical dates. Obviously, what’s reasonable will depend from case to case: for example, dates older than 130 years will be unlikely for birthdates, but quite acceptable for document dates. Users should be prevented from entering a return date that takes place before
Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember
A classic memory study (Baddeley, Thompson, and Buchanan, 1975) looked at memory for a list of words in relation to the amount of time it takes to say the words in the list out loud. It turned out that it was easier for people to remember a list such as wit, sum, harm, bay, top than university
Top 10 Intranet Trends of 2016
Because mega menus don’t work in a phone UI, designers often use a mega menu for desktop navigation, and an accordion or some other option for mobile navigation. Some teams opt for menu UIs that translate easily from desktop to mobile. One such pattern popular this year is the vertical navigation
Ecommerce UX Trends: User Research Update
Though sites may make using discounts difficult in order to increase sales totals, preventing users from being able to use or take advantage of discounts erodes trust and may frustrate users to the point that they no longer want to shop on the site. Further, making it easy to qualify for discounts
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After the Buy Button in E-Commerce
I recently discussed our report on the usability of confirmation email with a marketing manager. She said that while it was interesting research, it wasn't really relevant to her marketing team because confirmation messages are sent out only after customers have placed their orders. It's
Status Trackers and Progress Updates: 16 Design Guidelines
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) provide a status tracker for people applying for a green card or work permit. Following the creation of an account, applicants can log in to access the status tracker on USCIS’s website and see the status of their case. This feature is great to
Ideation in Practice: How Effective UX Teams Generate Ideas
These sentiments echo our recent survey about UX processes as a whole, where UX professionals noted that UX receives less management support compared to other teams at their organizations. Particularly for ideation, top-level support and clout to pull people from various teams and roles into
5 Steps to Service Blueprinting
In a service blueprint, customer actions are depicted in sequence, from start to finish. A customer-journey map is an ideal starting point for this step. Do note that a blueprint’s focus is the employee experience, not the customer’s experience, thus this portion does not need to be a fully
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
6 technologies you need to know to secure your IoT network
From collecting to aggregating data, from monitoring to normalizing data from IoT devices, you need a monitoring that provide you options for reporting as well. Security analytics act as a brilliant way to alert organizations about any malicious activities that might be taking place in the
3 Ways to Use a Controversial Type of Data That Will Help You Succeed
So geotargeting with location-specific data is the name of the game. However, you can only make use of that data if your customers are OK with you collecting it. You may not be required to adhere to the GDPR yet, but you’re wise to start implementing the new law’s requirements now — it’s
Is Business Headed for a Cognitive-First Future?
Smart machines can transform data points into patterns and insights; imbuing these machines with human knowledge and allowing them to “learn” from the additional information they gather can speed up the computations needed by businesses. Cognitive machines aren’t just reactive, however. With
The Modern Shape and Trends of Employee Culture
Sweetgreen, a fast-casual restaurant chain, ensures its culture is a strong one through such initiatives as its family fund, under which voluntary paycheck donations are used to help out employees in times of need. The fund came into play when someone needed temporary housing following a fire, and
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7 Essentials Your Online Startup Needs to Follow
Starting an online business requires you to be extremely smart because 9 out of 10 startups fail and just 10 percent are lucky to enjoy the sweet taste of success. But there are essentials your online startup needs to follow. There are certain things that most of the startups fail to recognize
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
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Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time)
Many browsers cannot print framed pages appropriately. Of course, most browsers don't print anything really well, but at least regular pages normally print in full. With frames, it is common to have the print command result in the printing of a single frame. Printing the full page is difficult with
Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
Use comparison tables or other designs that facilitate side-by-side comparison. Highlight the differences between the plans, especially the prices. Users appreciate transparency, even if it means showing a higher price. If an exact price cannot be provided, show an estimate or price range
Working Memory and External Memory
The working-memory buffer has limited capacity — think of it as an egg carton with a small number of slots. If a task requires too much information to be kept in the working memory, we need to free up some of the occupied slots to make space for that information. What is removed from working
