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...
Last week, WP Engine employees from all over the U.S. came together at our Austin headquarters for the first biannual All-Hands event of 2019. All Hands is a two-day event in which employees from other offices and teams around the country get the chance to collaborate and strategize with one
Texas’ economy is the second largest in the United States, a measure of success that’s only expected to continue; Texas ranks first for its growth prospects due to impressive growth forecasts and competitive employment rates across the state. To tap into this statewide success, however
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
3 Reasons Decentralization is the Future of Currency
Perhaps the most outstanding reason that decentralized currencies are the future of money is that they’re truly global. Sure, there might be lots of Bitcoin miners in China. Just as decentralized currencies have no central authority that sets their value, so they also have no central location
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
Is the Blockchain Role in Advertising Too Overrated?
That’s what IBM’s senior vice president of industrial platforms, Bridget Van Kralingen also mentions. The future development of blockchain will depend on a stable ecosystem. Corporate networks will be able to reach a robust capacity only when innovative technology developers, industry experts
Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases
In some cases, the payment method can offer a competitive advantage. For instance, the password manager 1Password only offered credit cards as a payment method, while a competitor, Dashlane, accepted PayPal in addition to credit cards. In both cases, the sites were available in 10 or more
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Branding an Intranet
Most Intranets are created and owned by IT, HR, Corporate Communications, or a combination of these departments. While these teams have the necessary skills to create and maintain great intranets, they don’t usually include experts in branding. Thus, intranets frequently lack a brand identity. A
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives
For example, one user who landed on Uncommon Goods’ website became disgruntled when she was greeted by a modal overlay asking for her email address to get access to secret sales. She said, “It really annoys me when stuff like that pops up before I’ve done anything else on the website. How do
Customization vs. Personalization in the User Experience
The main goal of personalization is to deliver content and functionality that matches specific user needs or interests, with no effort from the targeted users. The system profiles the user and adjusts the interface according to that profile. Personalization may deliver or emphasize particular
Wizards: Definition and Design Recommendations
For some people the path through the process may be quick and simple, while for others it may be intricate and tedious. If the process is forked depending on users’ inputs and the forking is transparent to the users, then they don’t need to bother with the path that does not apply to them
Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember
Imagine you went on vacation for two glorious weeks. Upon return you are energized with ideas you are raring to share in your project database. You switch on your computer and are prompted for your password. You have no idea what it is, and the post-it note you had previously affixed to your
Design Thinking 101
We live in an era of experiences, be they services or products, and we’ve come to have high expectations for these experiences. They are becoming more complex in nature as information and technology continues to evolve. With each evolution comes a new set of unmet needs. While design thinking is
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Cancel vs Close: Design to Distinguish the Difference
For example, the Sephora checkout process used a modal window to present free samples that users could add to their cart. In the following example, an item had just been selected by clicking the Add button below it; that action caused the Add button to be replaced by a Remove link, which made it
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
To identify a design's most important usability problems, testing 5 users is typically enough. Rather than run a big, expensive study, it's a better use of resources to run many small tests and revise the design between each one so you can fix the usability flaws as you identify them. Iterative
Small Pictures on Big Screens: Scaling Up from Mobile to Desktop
Designers and developers can overlook the issues described here if they only design, develop, and subsequently view their designs on a single monitor, or only on devices with their target breakpoints. See what your design looks like at those in-between sizes or on widescreen displays. While you may
Storyboards Help Visualize UX Ideas
Storyboards are often used to describe a fragment of the user journey (and several of them may be needed to capture the different branches in the journey). They are an efficient way to establish context and common ground for all the team members working on a specific problem. In contrast to journey
Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners
Perhaps the most important shared insights from the professionals surveyed were the responses to the question, “When does journey mapping fail?” Respondents shared their stories of when journey mapping was a fruitless endeavor because it was not shared, no buy-in occurred, the map wasn’t
What does the WPA2 vulnerability mean for IoT?
Vanhoef stressed that “Depending on the network configuration, it is also possible to inject and manipulate data. For example, an attacker might be able to inject ransomware or other malware into websites.” Further, The KRACK attack is universal and works against all type of devices
Quick Streaming from Anywhere: 10 Best VPNs for IPTV
Moreover, Surfshark provides its users with a free trial for seven days. It has a money-back policy allowing you to get your money back within 30 days or to discontinue use for any reason. Choosing this VPN service provides a highly cost-effective two-year plan. Subscribing for two years gives you
Operational Technology in Industrial IoT Can’t Tolerate IT-Style Patching. “Threat Analysis” is a Safe and Powerful Solution
A recent Forrester survey of IT and OT/LOB leaders showed IT and OT managers evenly divided on whether IT or OT is responsible for security, according to InformationWeek’s DARKReading. As an alarming result of this standoff, reports Forrester, an unacceptably large number of companies – 59
How These Apps Will Make You A Better Photographer
You will want to choose a community where you can thrive. Find a site and an app where you can freely access many variations and concepts for your visual creation ideas. Access as many interpretations and meanings for your photographic creatives and art for which you have the yearning. Have the aim
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Open Plan Offices Kill Productivity. Here’s What to Do Instead.
Our perceptions don’t always reflect reality. Open plan offices don’t stimulate creative collaborations or enhanced productivity – in fact, it’s quite the opposite. With their extra freedom, remote workers have better performance and morale. Businesses should welcome the idea of ditching
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
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Scrolling and Scrollbars
If you must make your own scrollbars, stay as close to user expectations as possible. Unless your scrollbars look like scrollbars, users might not notice them. Unless your scrollbars behave like scrollbars, users might not be able to bring the desired content into view. In either case, your
Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time)
The main issue in using frames is to ensure that URLs keep working. To do so, all hypertext links must have a TARGET="_top" attribute in their anchor tag (e.g., <A HREF=foo.html TARGET="_top"> ). Adding the _top makes the browser clear out all the frames and replace the entire window with a
Responsive Web Design (RWD) and User Experience
Responsive design is a tool, not a cure-all. While using responsive design has many perks when designing across devices, using the technique does not ensure a usable experience (just as using a gourmet recipe does not ensure the creation of a magnificent meal.) Teams must focus on the details of
