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...
Heather’s leadership at WP Engine has been instrumental in helping the company build an enduring, predictable business, particularly after a key investment from Silver Lake last January, as well as the recent acquisition of StudioPress. Heather also heads a diverse leadership team and has
Texas’ economy is the second largest in the United States, a measure of success that’s only expected to continue; Texas ranks first for its growth prospects due to impressive growth forecasts and competitive employment rates across the state. To tap into this statewide success, however
With regards to Genesis, the good news is that it has no substantial backwards-compatibility issues with Gutenberg. The main focus of updates to the StudioPress themes are focused on adding styles for the new Gutenberg blocks. However, what we’re most excited about are the brand new features we
AI and Blockchain Tech Are The Future of Successful Trading
Another aspect of algorithmic investing that is bound to benefit crypto traders is market scanning for tradable news. In high-frequency trading, Computer algorithms equipped with Natural Language Processing are taught to scan and identify tradable news as it develops and execute trades instantly
Crypto Micropayments: An Exciting Future of Blockchain Transactions
The perceived potential of vending machines possessing the power to bring an air of commonality to cryptocurrencies is so great that there are plenty of companies that are preparing to bring blockchain-infused microtransactions into everyday life. One such company is GoByte – a cryptocurrency
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
Branding an Intranet
The colors and fonts used in the intranet’s visual design often closely match those used on the organization’s public-facing website, since intranets usually adhere to corporate branding guidelines. In theory, it’s a good idea to for the intranet to support the organization’s sanctioned
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Why User Interviews Fail
First, pilot your interview guide on yourself to learn how you would answer the questions in your interview guide. Even asking yourself your own questions might make it clear that some of your questions don’t work. Second, before you run your interviews with lots of users, recruit one user for a
The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
Banner ads, ads that could be dismissed through a user action, and video ads that could be skipped received some positive comments, although most of the comments were negative in affect. The distinction here is that users positively viewed advertisements which could be skipped or ignored, in which
Placeholders in Form Fields Are Harmful
In this pattern, labels are placed within the form field as placeholders until the field becomes active and the user moves the input focus into the field. At that point, the placeholder label moves to the top of the field. As a result, the floating label (also known as an adaptive placeholder) is
When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps
Don’t expect to get “buy-in” and foster interest in your journey map by simply sending a lovely graphic as an email attachment. Make it a living interactive document that people can be a part of. Bring up your story in meetings and conversations to promote a narrative that others believe in
Assessing the Usability of a User Interface Standard
After a small section giving recommendations for the process of constructing usable interfaces, the standard defines requirements for menu and command oriented systems. It defines standard function key assignments (F1=help, etc.) and a standard terminology (for example, "personal code" is to be
User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s the difference?
However, it’s not the case that the relationship-level experience is better or more important than the experience of a single interaction. We’ve seen many grandiose plans falter on a few poorly written words of UI copy. While it is important to design the longitudinal experience, it’s equally
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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
Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants
When we asked 1,015 UX professionals for their career advice and experience, one respondent claimed to have learned everything about UX from playing Dungeons and Dragons. Although such experience is sure to be good, I think you can learn even more about UX from waiting tables in a restaurant. You
Killing Off the Global Navigation: One Trend to Avoid | Nielsen Norman Group
Mega-menus are now common on desktop designs, but designing for mobile users has also become increasingly important, as this traffic segment continues to grow. Mobile displays introduce major design constraints, because it’s often simply impossible to display all the top-level categories in a
UX Guidelines for Recommended Content
For example, when a personalized targeted advertisement was marked as irrelevant, people wanted the ad immediately removed. Pinterest allowed users to hide ads — referred to as Promoted Pins — via a popup menu. Clicking to hide the ad immediately replaced the ad space with a placeholder message
The Sketch Test: Test and Improve Your UX Deliverables and Other Documents
While it is tempting to focus primarily on what the participant says (especially direct suggestions for changes), the observation process can provide equally or even more important insights. Watch for areas of the document that the participant refers to when explaining ideas in order to figure
Blockchain’s Mainstream Debut Awaits Dev Ecosystem Evolution
The latter issue was contentious in the community at the peak of the previous cryptocurrency bubble. At that time it became apparent the market’s legacy ecosystems were incapable of supporting demand for their dApps. Trusted blockchains such as Ethereum had reached a point where they had
Security Teams Need to Be Prepared With an Incident Response Plan
Europe’s GDPR legislation has a section attempting to provide some standardization for incident response, but those guidelines only provide a starting point for organization-specific plans. CISOs and their teams face too many variable questions to depend on cut-and-paste plans. If the company
How a VPN Can Enhance Your IOT Devices Security
Of course, South Park’s account is a hyperbole. But IoT devices, by their very nature, do collect hoards of personal or confidential information, leaving personal data especially vulnerable to hackers or spies. Within the home, for instance, a smart security camera gathers data about when family
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
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How to Use Cornerstone Content to Kick-start Automatic-SEO?
This method looks simple, but there is a one-time effort that goes into it. We will get into the basic in some time. Before that, we need to know what are the important factors to keep in mind before creating cornerstone content pieces. For Automatic SEO to kick off please use the out of the box
Dancing in the Co-Economy: Are you Square Dancing or Foxtrotting?
Have you ever been to a fast-moving square dance? Partners dance together, spin around a time or two, and then move onto new partners. As the dance progresses, some people return to their original partners, while others will dance once and leave the floor. If you pay attention, this resembles a
Recapping the State of the Word 2018 | 100 Million Websites
100 Million Websites
Even though there will be many more sites to come in absolute numbers, what matters to the user experience is the rate of change , which has stabilized. From tech explosion to commodity in only 15 years: that's in itself an indication of the fast-moving nature of the modern world. It probably took
Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation
Based on these observations, it’s clear that left-aligned logos are better than centered logos for supporting user navigation to the homepage. Note that the left-logo sites in this study still caused some homepage-navigation errors (although far fewer than the centered-logo sites). This is
Change vs. Stability in Web Usability Guidelines
Newer Web usability guidelines are likely to prove even more stable than the findings from the 1990s. So far, we have not revised a single guideline that we've discovered in research since 2000. Each time we study something again, the guidelines are reconfirmed. We continue to discover new
