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 of...
Using the new Gutenberg post editor with Revolution Pro, developers and designers are able to create custom, reusable modules for design and content. As we continue to release new block-based themes, we hope users will find it easier to dive into their creative projects more quickly and build
In this segment, we highlight Untire, an application that helps cancer patients and survivors reduce cancer-related fatigue (CRF) symptoms and regain life. CRF is a common side-effect of cancer and related treatments; patients describe it as a paralyzing level of fatigue that leaves patients
The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
Is Blockchain Winning or Losing? — 4 Stages of Blockchain Evolution
The time bitcoin increased its digital value, altcoins (alternative digital currencies) started cropping up – Namecoin (the first altcoin that appeared in 2011), Litecoin, Monero, Dash, Factom, Dogecoin, etc. Generally, the first altcoins were simply iterations of bitcoin with some improvements
What B2B Companies Need to Implement Blockchain Solutions
The most important factor in managing and securing data on the blockchain involves establishing clear permissions for necessary parties to access the code. This may require increased collaboration among the tech department and other divisions of the company; programmers may need to access the
Past Bitcoin to Making Money from the Blockchain
People who got in on the ground floor of Bitcoin are sitting pretty. In January of 2011, you could buy over 300 BTC at $100USD. If you held onto it until today, it would be worth $1.7 million. If you held it until Bitcoin was close to $20,000 in December of 2018 it would have been worth nearly $6
User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s the difference?
Whether you use the term “UX” or “CX” is not important, because they basically mean the same thing if you have the “correct” interpretation of the terms. What’s important is: (1) that you understand the different scopes of experience and strive to optimize the experience at all
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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
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
On the other end of this dimension, methods that focus mostly on behavior seek to understand "what people do" with the product or service in question. For example A/B testing presents changes to a site's design to random samples of site visitors, but attempts to hold all else constant, in order
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
Group Form Elements Effectively Using White Space
You might be wondering, "if proximity is such a problem, then why not place the labels inside the text fields?". Don't be tempted. When you place the labels inside the text field as filler text, the label disappears when users input their text and they must remember it as they fill in the field
What the Erroneous Hawaiian Missile Alert Can Teach Us About Error Prevention
According to news outlets, the delay was caused by bureaucratic disagreements between different levels of government, because the Hawaiian state agency that issued the (false) alert was not authorized to send anything except alerts. The agency had to secure additional levels of approval in order to
The State of Transactional Email
Even though transactional messages are typically sent after the user has placed an order, these messages have substantial business value in improving customer satisfaction. They can increase the likelihood that the user will place another order in the future. Each email is another touchpoint on the
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Let Loyal Shoppers Edit Saved Credit Cards
When a user’s credit card expires, many banks reissue a card with the same number, but an updated expiration date. Allowing the user to update only this information rather than create a new entry, is simpler for the user and better for the site. Out-of-date information is removed, and the update
The User Experience of Public Bathrooms
When a sensor doesn’t respond quickly, the lack of feedback indicates to users that they should try something different. If a person holds her hand under a paper-towel dispenser and nothing happens, she might try touching it, pushing anything that looks like a button, hovering or waiving hands in
Design Thinking Builds Strong Teams
Simply put, teams can only move as quickly as they can successfully communicate. The collaborative nature of design thinking circumvents this friction by involving all team members from the very beginning in a workshop-based approach. As the whole team moves through key exercises together, a shared
Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done
While the same job-to-be-done may have different requirements for different user groups, the reverse is also true: one user group (or persona) may “hire” the product for different jobs in different contexts. For example, I use the same flight-booking website for both work travel and vacation
Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes
Despite the domain-specific nature of most app usability problems, here are 10 common mistakes that we frequently see across industries. Five of these issues (#1, 2, 3, 4, and 6) were also included in the original article —which goes to show how durable usability guidelines are. All 10 of the
Smart Hospitals: the Next Step in Healthcare IT
To reduce the workload on doctors, new forms of primary care are being trialed and in some cases, implemented, across the world. Instead of having every patient visit a doctor for a diagnosis, some minor illnesses are being diagnosed using the web and app-based self-serve tools. In some cases
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
Why AI and Viztech hold the key to a safer internet
In response, Google and YouTube have announced they are increasing their use of technology to help automatically identify videos. Meanwhile the problem continues and is only going to get worse. A recent article in the Telegraph revealed that, according to official figures, 54,000 different websites
How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups
Don Ball, Co-Founder and Chief Social Officer at Fueled Collective, has experienced Minnesota’s growth firsthand and has a finger on the pulse of what might be the clearest sign of Minnesota’s entrepreneurial prowess: “Since 2010, we’ve been practically the only coworking game in town
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For Startups, a SaaS Solution is an HR Killer App
That’s part of the reason that startups have been so quick to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI). In truth, there is no end to the ways that startups can gain an advantage by turning to technology in their daily operations. One of those ways has to do
Fifteen Podcasts You Must Listen to in 2019
This podcast, with host Tiffani Bova, is like listening in on two friends talking over coffee. With her eclectic guest lineup including leading thinkers, Best Selling Authors, an Olympic Athlete, an NFL Coach, and a Grammy Nominated Artist all sharing what they have learned along the way, and
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Users Interleave Sites and Genres
In our example case, the user also integrated offline information sources. For example, none of the sites helped her figure out how many lumens were needed to show presentations to her target audience size. Luckily, our user was an experienced projector-buyer and owned a reference book with this
Horizontal Attention Leans Left
Search-engine use made up 16% of web use that we observed, and was analyzed separately to prevent the skew of data. We found that browsing patterns on search-engine result pages (SERPs) were different from browsing patterns on the general web. On SERPs, almost all fixations (94%) fell on the left
Visibility of System Status
Even when users cannot see the effect of an action because the system does not have a screen (like is the case for voice-only devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home), a minimum feedback that the command was heard is essential. Amazon’s Echo displays a ring of light on the device to indicate
