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...
WP Engine employees are rarely hungry. Our office kitchens are fully stocked with cereal and snacks, and lunch is catered Monday through Thursday, every week, for the entire team. Unlike the 46,000 people who rely on Central Texas Food Bank for food assistance every week, our employees don’t have
In an effort to help the WordPress community grow and prosper as well as expand and add value to the WP Engine Digital Experience platform, WP Engine recently acquired StudioPress. For our customers, this means, in addition to the Genesis framework, they’ll have access to 35 premium themes. All
In this panel, Brunner will be joined by popular Austin figures as they discuss who and what has been the major change agent in Austin. Brunner will represent technology while other panelists will represent food and film. Joe Nick Patoski, author of Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers
Freewheeling Freelancers will Dominate the Future Jobs Market
Fortunately, as more people turn to this form of work, so too has the attention of regulatory bodies around the world. Writing for Forbes, Abdullahi Muhammed expects to see increased pressure in the coming years on local, state and national authorities to recognize the fledgling form of freelancing
FinTech is Transforming the Finance Industry
Legislators express that it will be unfortunate for FinTech to bypass an opportunity to make a positive impact on society. As things stand, current FinTech offerings serve solely to provide high-cost financing resources to underserved groups. Lawmakers have expressed concern that FinTech will
9 Blockchains Transforming the Way We Pay, Play, and Work
Look past digital currencies’ nosebleed pricing volatility, and you’ll discover a robust, decentralized, secure database. Brands and technologists are quickly figuring out how to put this powerful ledger to good use. Here are several real-world examples that demonstrate cryptos’
6 Rules for Persuasive Storytelling
In our work as UX professionals, we use stories to help create a shared vocabulary, focus the team on a common goal, and persuade stakeholders — ultimately leading to buy-in. UX stories are a communication tool that can be used in lieu of boring task check lists that are far removed from the
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UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Think of service blueprints as a part two to customer journey maps. Similar to customer journey maps, blueprints are instrumental in complex scenarios spanning many service-related offerings. Blueprinting is an ideal approach to experiences that are omnichannel, involve multiple touchpoints, or
Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites
In our research, we have seen many ecommerce purchases side-tracked or abandoned by users who did not have a coupon to put in the coupon code field. Providing a coupon field signals to users that there is a deal to be had. If that deal is not readily visible, many users will leave the checkout page
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
Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes of 2008
As far as the mutual funds company is concerned, new investments and current investments are treated differently. Reallocating future additions means changing the funds they'll buy when the employer transfers money into the account. Reallocating current investments means selling some of the
Top 10 Intranet Trends of 2016
Enbridge employees can easily access the company’s public information on social sites — including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube — via links in the middle of the homepage. This section also includes a link to the @enbridge blog. Providing quick access to external sites raises
When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps
Journey maps should always be created to support a known business goal. Maps that do not align to a business goal will not result in applicable insight. The goal could be an external issue, such as learning about a specific persona’s purchasing behaviors, or an internal issue, such as addressing
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Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites
Users who had a coupon code on a website wanted to enter them as soon as possible. Provide a clear place for coupon codes in the shopping cart, before the first step in the checkout process. This approach enables people to check that the coupon is valid before they enter any personal information
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
Usability and utility are equally important and together determine whether something is useful: It matters little that something is easy if it's not what you want. It's also no good if the system can hypothetically do what you want, but you can't make it happen because the user interface is too
A Model for Conducting UX Workshops and Exercises
Activities should always begin with brief introduction and explanation. This can be kept brief (in the nature of a summary) if all team members have participated in many previous activities of the current type, or if they all participated in the same type of activity very recently. If some
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
However, don’t go overboard with success indicators. Success indicators shouldn’t distract users from filling out forms and should only be used when the additional context helps complete the form faster or more accurately. For example, you don’t need to show a success message when the only
Microinteractions in User Experience
Microinteractions encompass a substantial number of digital elements, but not every element is part of a microinteraction. Static elements that are always present on the screen are not microinteractions because they do not have a distinct trigger. Additionally, flows composed of multiple actions
4 Things Spotify Can Teach You About Data Sharing
Despite being a smaller firm than media giants Facebook and Google, Spotify took the lead this year in data management. The streaming service won, however, not because it collects the most data or has the most advertising partners, but because it puts its users first. That doesn’t mean kicking
How to Improve Cybersecurity in a Smart City
In one example of these kinds of public-private partnerships, AT&T and GE Current are working with Georgia Electric to install 200 smart LED streetlights. The streetlights provide illumination while also tracking traffic, parking, and pedestrian patterns and even monitoring for gunshots
Smart Hospitals: the Next Step in Healthcare IT
There is no doubt that healthcare is changing. Between innovation that the health industry is known for, and continually creating new drugs — better ways to treat illnesses are in the making. Add to the mix of physician innovation and pharma creations; we can look forward to a healthier
How to Save Money Filing Patents
For example, in Size Appeal of Novalar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., SBA No. SIZ-4977 (2008), the SBA Size Determination Board determined that an “affiliation” with an individual minority stockholder (a venture capital firm) transformed the otherwise small medical device startup company into a large
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CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
The hardest thing about the re-design was integrating the tableless CSS design into Radio Userland. I had to do some jiggery-pokery with the Radio Userland templates and macros, and the CSS implementation is not yet complete. I’ve had to temporarily remove my blogroll and topicroll, along
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
WP Engine All Hands Spring 2019: EMEA | Beware Horizontal Scrolling and Mimicking Swipe on Desktop
Beware Horizontal Scrolling and Mimicking Swipe on Desktop
Don’t force users to “swipe” through your content: some will, many won’t. Allow for alternative ways of navigation: give users the option to navigate with menus, too. Menus tell users what’s on your site and help them find the information that they need. Users rely on them to go deeper
"Get Started" Stops Users
We asked one study participant to find a cell-phone plan from a carrier different than his own. He immediately visited the T-Mobile website and remarked that he had friends and family using its service. He was looking specifically for a service plan that would allow him to keep his current device
Banner Blindness: The Original Eyetracking Research, 10-year research overview
As the replay shows, the user did fixate once within the ad, but at that moment, the ad is obscured by a pull-down menu. In reality, the user couldn't see the message; the fixation was clearly a mistake that occurred while she was trying to reacquire the menu after briefly looking away from the
