We are inspired by the digital visions and aspirations of our customers and are committed to helping them win online. As 2018 has just come to a close, we look back on our growth with pride and humility. We are devoted to the success and prosperity of our 90,000+ customers from 140 different countries in 2019.
We love our platform’s ability to scale for any digital experience you can imagine. We scaled internally as well to make sure we were ready for anything. We’ve hired 130 new people globally to join our mission in helping our customers win online—enough to fill a 737 airplane! WP Engine is kicking off 2019...
Academy Pro will help you showcase your authority as an educator and content creator. For site owners who might not be as technically inclined, Academy Pro is a great option to easily customize your website. Even if you are curious about enabling a certain feature of creation, as a StudioPress
Many of those abandoned carts are probably lost for good because you don’t have any contact information from the shopper to try to win them back to checkout. But for a percentage of the carts, your shopper will have gotten far enough along in the process that you’ll have an email address (or
New year, new you, did you say? Well, that was our reality in 2018 as we rolled out some of our favorite new platform additions. We took the lead on the Amazon Polly plugin, the first plugin to bring voice technology to WordPress. The WP Engine Digital Experience Platform continued to evolve and
Optimizing Business Decisions With Blockchain Technology
When businesses fail to make better decisions, they are bound to fail. In fact, studies have shown that most firms fail at strategy formulation and execution rather than product development. Simply put, a business may have the best product in the world, but if it fails to make the right
A marketplace solution for IoT development through decentralized smart contract ledger
According to India’s telecom secretary, Aruna Sundararajan, 10-15 million jobs are estimated to be created in India alone through IoT. So, one could optimistically speculate that the possible number of global job creation through IoT would be upwards of the above figure. Hence, the potential
Is Blockchain Winning or Losing? — 4 Stages of Blockchain Evolution
Although the increased flow of virtual cryptocurrencies still disturbs officials, blockchain is highly welcomed as the distributed ledger technology instead. First of all, the government needs it for strengthening patient data protection and improving current security systems vulnerable to breaches
Service Blueprinting in Practice: Who, When, What
Outside of these 3 themes, we discovered an outlier worth mentioning. One participant responded that creating a service blueprint helped her develop a sense of empathy and respect for her colleagues. The research for creating a service blueprint is mostly internal, requiring qualitative data from
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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
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen
Visibility of system status The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time. (Read full article on visibility of system status.) Match between system and the real world The system should speak the users' language, with words
Tabs, Used Right
Tab-design problems are a common finding when using analytics for a UX health check. Assuming that you’re tracking within-page actions, you may find that users rarely use the tabs on certain pages. Check if you’re violating any of the guidelines in this article. If yes, you probably have the
Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens
The site type influences user expectations. For example, teens expect ecommerce and brand sites to look professional, and informational sites to look simple and polished. For the latter sites, presenting interesting content in a clear manner is much more attractive than experimenting with new
Mobile: Native Apps, Web Apps, and Hybrid Apps
Maintaining a native app can be complicated not only for users, but also for developers (especially if they have to deal with multiple versions of the same information on different platforms): Changes have to be packaged in a new version and placed in the app store. On the other hand, maintaining a
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Having the right tools available in any given situation makes all the difference, especially when it comes to correctly and efficiently getting things done. Without the relevant tools, we waste time and are left feeling frustrated, lost, and confused. Just as bad: when there are too many tools
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6 Rules for Persuasive Storytelling
A compelling story is nothing without hard facts to back up the narrative. Use insights from qualitative or quantitative testing to help craft your narrative and minimize doubt and gray area. When questions arise from your audience, you can back up your answers with this data. For example, if in
4 Noteworthy Intranet Design Trends in 2019
In a very different but equally effective example, Lamprell Energy Limited, provider of fabrication, engineering, and contracting services to the offshore and onshore oil & gas and renewable energy industries, used the intranet to promote and track workplace safety, a core company value. The
Fight Against “Right-Rail Blindness”
Banner blindness has expanded beyond the deliberate act of not looking at banners to encompass avoidance of anything that usually signals irrelevant information or advertisements. People disregard colorful boxes in the margin of the page because such graphical treatments are commonly applied to
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
All UX mappings have two-fold benefits. First, the process of creating a map forces conversation and an aligned mental model. Second, the shared artifact resulting from the mapping can be used amongst your team, organization, or partners to communicate an understanding of your user or service. This
Microinteractions in User Experience
Microinteractions aren’t limited to websites. Voice-based assistants such as Google Home use microinteractions to communicate standby mode when waiting for a user command. After the user says, ‘Hey Google,’ the device displays a circular animation of four dots. Almost instantly the dots form
What to Consider When Leveraging File Sharing
For example, you may want to see who has looked at the file to ensure everyone is staying current on their responsibilities. If there is an issue related to the changes, it helps to see a version history so you know who made what changes and when in order to resolve those disputes. Or, you can make
Internet of Warnings: How Smart Technology Can Threaten Your Business’s Security
IoT technology ranges from entire smart cities that streamline traffic to fridges that detect when you’re low on milk and order it for you, among many other products and services. Devices such as Fitbit and Nest are growing in popularity due to their low price, practicality, and variety of
Dear Senior Citizens – You Folks are the Easy Target of Hackers
The victim receives a call from a stranger posing as his or her grandkid, using a frantic-sounding voice, that he or she is in trouble. Arrest, accident, or a robbery. Want to up the drama? The caller sometimes claims to be stuck in a foreign country — and to impersonate more intensity, throw
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
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4 High-Potential Sectors for AI and ML Startup Success
Today, the explosion of development in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology has created a market for which it appears there’s no limit. No matter the industry, if you name a reasonably-sized (or larger) company, there’s a good chance that they’re investing in AI
2 Billion Downloads Later, Apple’s App Store is Still Going Strong
The App Store is obviously one of Apple’s most important assets in the mobile market. While Microsoft’s Zune HD, for example, is getting a lot of favorable reviews, the absence of an application ecosystem makes it a far less compelling product than Apple’s more expensive iPod
WP Engine: 2018 in Review | Finally Progress in Internet Client Design
Finally Progress in Internet Client Design
Napster connects many users to many servers and basically allows users to view the entire Internet as a collected resource for getting music (or, potentially, other content and services). At the same time, Napster also encourages users to contribute back to the richness of this resource by making
Nielsen's Law of Internet Bandwidth
Nielsen's law is similar to the more established Moore's law. Unfortunately, comparing the two laws shows that bandwidth grows slower than computer power. Moore's law says that computers double in capabilities every 18 months, which corresponds to about 60% annual growth. As shown in the table
The Anatomy of a List Entry
Circalighting.com: On this gallery page, list entries for wall sconces show only product names and leave out important details such as finish, bulb type, or even price. Users must navigate in and out of each item’s detail page to get this information. Although, when shopping for wall sconces, the
