Earlier this year, we honored Webby for Good nominees using WordPress to bring positive changes to the world. On November 15th, 2018 industry experts and technology innovators from across the EU will meet for the Webby’s European sister show, The Lovie Awards. Winners are selected for creating a stunning overall digital experience as well as for excellence in select areas: websites, apps, mobile sites and podcasts, online advertising, internet video, and social media.
This year, WP Engine partnered with The Lovie Awards to bring Lovie For Good, a project highlighting digital experiences bringing positive change to the world. From an algorithm to promote compassionate leadership to campaigns recognizing the importance...
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
WP Engine was proud to take part in this event sponsored by the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion. Each company was encouraged to customize the events during the day according to the needs, nature, and geography of its workplace. At WP Engine, multiple company-wide workshops were held in
Every year it can feel like the holidays sneak up on us. We assemble, we strategize, and we take the necessary precautions yet we frequently feel like we are scrambling. For ecommerce businesses, this time of year is crucial not only for generating revenue but for generating recurrent relationships
Evolving from Decentralization to Centralization – Back to a Decentralized Future
These relationships were vitally important as they enabled individuals to pay back in kind during trade and other social interactions. Therefore, establishing a sense of trust and security, according to Dunbar’s theory, was achievable with a small community. However, above the 150 marks
Cybersecurity in IoT: Achieving Digital Security in an Age of Surveillance
One of the most troubling aspects of government surveillance is their ability to conceal their actions. Without whistleblowers like Edward Snowden or ironic hacks on government databases, the extent of surveillance is rarely known or understood. The blockchain offers a transparent framework that
Blockchain Supercharged with AI: The Next Revolution
Even though the technology is still in its nascent stages, an excellent example of the capabilities of current AI technology is the array of virtual assistants available like from Tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple. Similar to the blockchain, AI is making waves in scores of industry sectors
Marking Required Fields in Forms
Both these sites used the asterisk to mark required fields: UPS (left) displayed the asterisk at the end of the label and USPS (right) showed it at the beginning, in red. Showing it at the beginning in a different color makes it slightly easier to identify the required fields, which may prove
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Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
In their definition of user experience, Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen claim that “the first requirement for an exemplary user experience is to meet the exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother.” Brands that choose to address an unmet user need at the core of their business are
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
Best Application Designs
One caveat about relying on other software is that it's often best to modify or simplify the user interfaces to fit the needs of your users; because of its broader purview, 3rd-party software often embodies unneeded complexity that it's best to hide. eReview, for example, built on top of SharePoint
Why Personas Fail
To avoid this pitfall, you must include the persona end users in the process of creating personas. Invite stakeholders to sit in on a research session. Send out a daily recap of the activities undertaken to create the personas. Help people see how your research uncovers the customer segments early
Wizards: Definition and Design Recommendations
Wizards are a powerful design pattern that can be used to simplify complex processes performed infrequently or by novice users. By showing less information at a time, they allow users to focus better on the content pertinent to each step and decrease the chance of errors. When they include
Amazon: No Longer the Role Model for Ecommerce Design
It's good that Amazon offers fully localized sites in six countries outside the United States, but there is no integration across the sites. If you're a French user looking at a book on the American site, for example, there's no indication that you can order the same book from Amazon.fr or that a
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The Mobile Checkout Experience
Fields such as credit-card type, address, city, or state can be automatically calculated based on other data entered by the user (the credit-card number and, respectively, the ZIP code). Instead of asking users to type this information explicitly, do the work for them. Our research showed that
Infinite Scrolling is Not for Every Website
The success of infinite scrolling on social media sites such as Twitter have made this technique popular, but that doesn’t mean you should do it too. Continuous scrolling is advantageous for content that streams constantly and has a relatively flat structure, where each unit of content belongs at
Design Critiques: Encourage a Positive Culture to Improve Products
Presenting work, whether in a critique setting or not, makes the presenter feel vulnerable, especially if the critique is not established in your organization. Remember to not take feedback personally; instead, keep your mindset on improving your product. This attitude will make it easier to work
Fight Against “Right-Rail Blindness”
Avoid turning the side column into a junk drawer. Have a strategy for tailored content based on users’ needs. Anticipate the user’s task and offer recommendations to match. Don’t display the same set of links or articles across different pages: it undermines the usefulness of the suggestions
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
Error messages are an indicator of system status: they let users know that a hurdle was encountered and give solutions to fix them. But in order for the error messages to be effective, people need to see them, understand them, and be able to act upon them easily. Visibility of system status is one
Rapid Experiments are Key to Making AI Technology Buy vs Build Decisions
Usually, this is due to the emergence of data science teams or the sheer lack of ability of the data science team to communicate with business functions. Hiring a few data scientists does not necessarily give an enterprise the ability to build and integrate quality AI solutions at scale. The sooner
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
How are the Top MNCs Using Big Data Analytics to their Advantage?
Another immense bit of leeway of enormous information is the capacity to help organizations improve and redevelop their items. Fundamentally, the vast information has turned into a road for making extra income streams through empowering advancements and item improvement. Associations start by
How to Choose a Startup Investment
To expand your wealth and achieve specific financial goals, you’re going to have to make some investments. However, those investments come with the significant risk of potential loss. Fortunately, the investment world has grown to offer more investment options and ways to assess those options
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How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups
Even old-school startups are joining the scene. On November 7 tech darling Salesforce brings its popular Growth Camp series to the Twin Cities. The free tech conference for small businesses and startups features local speakers, 1:1 tech tutorials, a keynote from acclaimed marketing evangelist
How to Manage Conflict at Work
Long hours and tight deadlines overwhelm most of us. However, they do not make us more productive. We need to recognize that long hours sometimes do not equal success. People who put in 70 hours per week produce nothing more than those who put in 55. So, what is the real secret to maximizing your
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Video Usability
When thinking about introductions to videos, consider the standard use of video content on your site and the cumulative effect of such introductions. If users typically watch one video per session, a standard introduction doesn’t cause as much harm as if a user typically watches several videos in
Design Thinking 101
In the early 1900's husband and wife designers Charles and Ray Eames practiced “learning by doing,” exploring a range of needs and constraints before designing their Eames chairs, which continue to be in production even now, seventy years later. 1960's dressmaker Jean Muir was well known for
Without the true page title, people are left with no clues for the content of the tab. Users often keep frequently visited pages such as Facebook or news websites open throughout the day in order to revisit them and check for updates. Users who are shopping or conducting research may be parked on
