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 Go” in honor of the famous sci-fi sagas Star Wars and Star Trek. In addition to discussing goals for the upcoming year and new strategies for success, the team took moment to have a good time.
Events on the agenda included team lunches, Q&A sessions with executives, information sessions, and a company party with a talent show. Next week, employees in US offices will come...
In less than two weeks, members from the WordPress community around the world will head to Nashville, Tennessee for WordCamp US. This is the second consecutive year that the event has been held in Music City and WordPress community has evolved significantly since 2017. The most anticipated topic of
At WP Engine, we believe our people are the core of every success, award, milestone and every achievement. That’s because employees who truly feel empowered and validated by their workplace are energized to delight and inspire the customer in every interaction. When new employees walk through the
At the end of September, we held our 2018 WP Engine Summit in Austin, Texas. Last week, agencies, brands, and digital innovators from EMEA came together in London for the WP Engine EU Summit. Attendees discussed the future of digital experiences, Gen Z’s perception of the Internet, and the
Transparency In The Cryptocurrency Ecosystem with James Giancotti
Not only has Alluva gamified cryptocurrency—it’s given contributors choice in how they spend their rewards. They can exchange the cryptocurrency used on the platform (also called Alluva) for their cryptocurrency of choice, such as Bitcoin (BTC). They can use Alluva to advertise on Oddup’s
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
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
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives
A popup displayed right after the user logs in is just as bothersome as one shown before the page content loads. When users log in to an account, they have a next step or subsequent task in mind — or else why would they have logged in?! Immediately presenting a popup of any kind will distract and
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Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
As his pillaging continued and Blackbeard grew in craftiness, he realized it would be prudent to extend the essence of his menacing nature from afar. He devised a tool to extend his message — an early version of the skull-and-crossbones pirate flag we all know well today. The flag served as
'About Us' Information on Corporate Websites - User Research Findings
Additionally, it’s important to reiterate from previous studies that most users will rarely click on obscurely named links such as Corporate Governance. People don’t understand jargon terms and struggle to decipher meaning from unclear link names. Use explicit link labels; they help all users
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
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Don’t make users scan through a long list of disorganized commands. To help users focus on the most relevant options, place the ones used most often at the top. Because people scan lists from top to bottom, place seldomly used commands low down in the menu. Let users decide which option best
Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens
Teenagers use the internet on many devices in various environments. For our research, we focused on web and app usability for laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Although teens spend endless time texting and on social media, we didn’t focus on these activities because our goal was to derive
Status Trackers and Progress Updates: 16 Design Guidelines
Ensure all your users have the information needed to use the status tracker from the start. Often, users will need to enter information such as an order or a reference number in order to get access to the tracker. Make sure that (1) people know that information will later be needed when you first
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Seamlessness in the Omnichannel User Experience
Making information easily accessible for future interactions can be as simple as providing a link to your web content and making sure that the link is accessible across all devices. Many people will email themselves a link to a particular page to remember to visit it again or to simplify the task
DesignOps 101
I like to think of DesignOps a bit like a curated potluck dinner. There are a lot of components within DesignOps, and what an organization chooses to select — or to pass on — should depend on the current needs and most poignant painpoints of that organization. So, the shape of DesignOps will
Why Zen Mode Isn’t the Answer to Everything
One of the arguments that zen-mode proponents make is that, over time, frequent users will eventually learn how to access the UI. Yes and no. We know the number of repetitions necessary to learn an interface affects how learnable it is. As proven by the original Windows 8 interface, in the absence
Test Paper Prototypes to Save Time and Money: The Mozilla Case Study
The designer made the prototypes using OmniGraffle, and we printed them onto tabloid paper and cut them to size. Because there was no code to change, this prototyping method allowed us to make design changes quickly during testing. Firefox users helped progress the designs rapidly toward better
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
How IoT Running on Blockchain Can Make Climate Change a Reality
Finally, through a strategic alliance with DAO IPCI, we have already signed two contracts for aboriginal forest monitoring as a part of the UN-REDD+ Programme. In summer 2019, we start the project in Papua New Guinea, where we deliver a drone monitoring solution that enables the environmental
The Potential “Holy Shit” Threats Surrounding AI and ML
Greats like Stephen Hawking warns that when people become unable to compete with advanced AI, “it could spell the end of the human race.” “I would say that one of the things we ought not to do is to press full steam ahead on building superintelligence without giving thought to the potential
Is Business Headed for a Cognitive-First Future?
Smart machines can transform data points into patterns and insights; imbuing these machines with human knowledge and allowing them to “learn” from the additional information they gather can speed up the computations needed by businesses. Cognitive machines aren’t just reactive, however. With
Digital Marketing Trends to Drop and Trends to Follow
These “blasting” messages aren’t viewed as being in good taste, and if anything, is a great way to get yourself/your brand blocked. Subtlety is key, and it’s important to put effort into nurturing relationships instead of just making sure as many eyeballs see the message as
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What Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs can Learn from the College Admission Scandal
Being authentic doesn’t always come naturally in the business world, especially when you’re a startup and your small size works against you. Most entrepreneurs recall a moment where they need to connect an early customer to the accounting department, only to hand the phone to their co-founder
Your Pitch to VCs is More Than a Deck
There is a difference between your pitch, a distillation of your vision, and the deck, a tool that facilitates your pitch. There’s also a difference between the presenter, the person who communicates the most important points, and the presentation, the cumulative experience that includes
WP Engine All Hands Spring 2019: EMEA | Mobile First Is NOT Mobile Only
Mobile First Is NOT Mobile Only
So how is it possible that on this platform with hard-to-use navigation, the navigation is still used a lot more than on the desktop? Did the mobile sites in our sample have exceptionally good navigation designs? If you look at the individual sites, you’ll see that they were not much different
Web Page Footers 101: Design Patterns and When to Use Each
Many ecommerce, entertainment, and other sites which encourage browsing opt for an infinite scroll in order to keep users on the page. Content continually loads so there is no consistent bottom on every page, and thus no footer section. However, the content that would have been in the footer
Ad Placement for Mobile
The ad placements on the WebMD mobile site create false floors because they appear in places that could reasonably be the end of relevant content, and are large enough that they hinder the user’s ability to see content continuing down the page. (The black dashed line shows where the fold occurs
