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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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
Zest labs brings IoT and blockchain to the fresh food supply chain
Zest Fresh software calculates a ZIPR code for each tracked pallet, using patented methodology and sensors, ensuring inventory and shipping decisions are based on actual freshness. Growers, retailers, and restaurateurs can benefit from intelligent routing, meaning that produce with a closer
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
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’
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Unless you have an unlimited clothes budget, it’s unrealistic (and wasteful) to wear a new outfit for every single occasion, yet social media pressures us into it. Rent a Runway solves this tension elegantly by recycling (expensive) clothes across a large set of women. It’s an example of the
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Net Promoter Score: What a Customer-Relations Metric Can Tell You About Your User Experience
NPS is best used to assess overall customer satisfaction with an entire company or service, or at least with an entire product. It makes less sense to utilize NPS to assess user satisfaction with lower-level details of UI design, such as a website’s checkout process, a product page, or a specific
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives
Give users some time and space to complete their tasks after logging into their account and don’t show popups right away. It’s acceptable to eventually present helpful account tips, guidance, or new features after some time has gone by, but only if the user’s task is enhanced or further
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Take Uber for example. While the experience is hugely popular and generally pain free, there is room for enhancement — especially for large groups travelling together. Currently, a group must problem-solve in order to figure out how many “ubers” to call and and how many passengers can fit in
Best Application Designs
Unless you're IBM or Google, you'll never build a spreadsheet that rivals Excel. Furthermore, most business users already own Excel and know how to use it. Thus, instead of building spreadsheet-like features into your application, it might be better to find a smooth way to integrate with Excel
Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember
Using chunking with passwords maybe be difficult for some people because there are no standard characters, such as dashes, used to visually separate the chunks or numbers or words. While some people can do fine with no separator (such as, “mypasswordisthis”), others may be stymied. In my
Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff
As with anything we design for, there will be differences in individual users. People will have differing levels of awareness of a product and its capabilities, meaning that some may be further along in their path toward acceptance than others. There may also be individual differences in creepiness
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Dot Voting: A Simple Decision-Making and Prioritizing Technique in UX
Once all individuals have voted, participants can converge and discuss the outcome. When dots are used, the content will resemble somewhat of a heat map (with concentrated dots in areas that received most votes). Depending on the goal of the dot voting, participants can discuss why they have voted
Wishlist or shopping cart? Saving products for later in ecommerce
Wishlists are often made available in the page header (next to the cart button) and on product pages (often near the Add to Cart button). These spots make the feature easy to discover and access; however, our study participants tended to add items to their cart first. Our users’ mental model for
Basic Patterns for Mobile Navigation
However, keep in mind that when navigation is hidden under a menu, even though that menu as a whole may be salient enough, users will have to make a decision to open it and check whether the individual navigation options are relevant. While the navigation menu is becoming standard and many mobile
The Sketch Test: Test and Improve Your UX Deliverables and Other Documents
A dendrogram is a type of data visualization produced by card sorting (a popular information-architecture research method). It shows all the main terms presented to users along the left-hand side, and the tree-like structure on the right half of the document shows the percentage of participants
The Magnifying-Glass Icon in Search Design: Pros and Cons
When used without an open-entry text field, the icon takes up less space. Visually, it’s less prominent and, therefore, less noticeable. We don’t recommend the icon-only pattern for desktop websites. Icon-only search makes sense on mobile devices, because there’s less screen space and fewer
Data Legislation Is Coming. Can You Get Compliant?
New rules could be right around the corner, and getting prepared takes time. In addition to new policies and protections, companies will need to cultivate an updated culture that respects data and gives preference to privacy. Making those changes meaningfully will not happen quickly or easily
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
These Are The Concerns Slowly Killing Ad-Tech
Black Mirror, recently bought by Netflix, is a hugely popular TV series that is a dark, twisted but spot-on portrayal of the possible ramifications of technology in the future. Advertisements for the show are ironically targeting ad block users, and some argue, are “intentionally creepy.” For
How to Differentiate Your Startup in a Red Ocean Industry
The product itself may not change, but you can certainly add something to it. New product features may be enough to differentiate the product, and enter a world free from competition, even within a competitive industry. For example, the fast food industry is currently saturated with burger joints
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How to Fail Your Way to Success
It is probably worth seeing yourself as an “experimenter” in the business world. Consider that the enterprises you undertake or take on as a business are often experiments to see if your ideas are correct when faced with reality. In some ways the pioneers of electric cars and autonomous
E-Commerce Failures and Mistakes: Why do so Many Startups Fail?
You’ve chosen a great product to sell online. You are sure it will hit the market as soon as people know about its availability and great features. You’ve done the target audience analysis and you are good to go. What if the product listing on your e-commerce store is inclusive of
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The Fold Manifesto: Why the Page Fold Still Matters
By contrast, once the user starts scrolling, the Mod Notebooks site does a good job of encouraging further exploration. The site provides anchor-based navigational options to help users jump to topics of interest. On screens of a variety of sizes, text and images span across pages, leading the
Web Page Footers 101: Design Patterns and When to Use Each
Many of our study participants described being motivated to pick a site based on the awards and testimonials received by that site. Highlighting accolades in the footer can be a good tactic when building authority and credibility. However, showing too many testimonials and awards could also raise a
Homepage Design Changes
Although both versions have 7 tabs, the newer design's tabs reached all the way across the page and the color scheme indicating the selected tab was changed. More important, the actual navigation categories were also changed. The 2002 IA categories were Front Page, Enterprise, E-Business
