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...
The process of disabling the 5.0 editor should not be a hassle. In the coming days, we will be rolling out an admin notice that will display on the Dashboard page* of your site(s). This notice will have information about adopting the new editor and will provide buttons to install/activate the
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
AMP was effectively loading up landing pages faster and more efficiently than previous technology, but what about the rest of the website? Consumers desired a top-notch mobile ecommerce experience; they wanted to search for products, add to their cart, manage their points, use coupons, etc. AMP
A marketplace solution for IoT development through decentralized smart contract ledger
A smart contract, as shown in the infographic, is a digital contract or a protocol in the form of code that executes a function depending on the terms involved in a contract. The key here is that it enforces an action automatically depending on whether the terms in the contract have been fulfilled
Moving Towards web3.0 Using Blockchain as Core Tech
The invention of Bitcoin and blockchain technology sets the foundations for the next generations of web applications. The applications which will run on peer to peer network model with existing networking and routing protocols. The applications where centralized Servers would be obsolete and data
Navigating Big Data’s Fake News Problem
If big data is to be trusted for decision making, a solution must be found to deal with the fake news menace conclusively. Following the exposure of the part social media played in alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, Facebook and Twitter have introduced a mechanism that enables
Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
There is no formula that can tell you exactly what your website should look like. But it’s clear from this research that you can’t rely on shortcuts like disregarding standard web conventions to make your site look special. People are attracted to novelty, but we’re also creatures of habit
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3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
Google Maps for iOS: An unexpected system-initiated request to access the media library appears when the user is about to tap Start to navigate to a local hotel. The user is left wondering how Google Maps would use that permission (the answer is: to display the details of the currently playing song
When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps
Successful journey maps require more than just the inclusion of the “right” elements. Journey mapping should be a collaborative process informed by well-defined goals, and built from research. It requires hard work to keep the process on the right track and to build the buy-in needed to
Toggle-Switch Guidelines
Every morning, I wake up, pour water into my tea kettle, and flip the switch on. Once the water is boiling, I turn the kettle off and pour myself a cup. The switch on my kettle is an example of a toggle. If you pay close attention, you’ll notice that toggle switches are all around us, because
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
The OECD project looked at a broad range of job-related skills, but of most interest to us is the test of technology skills. For this part of the study, participants were asked to perform 14 computer-based tasks. Instead of using live websites, the participants attempted the tasks on simulated
Instructional Overlays and Coach Marks for Mobile Apps
When designing tips, coach marks, and any other types of hints for mobile applications, the main guideline to remember is to keep them as short as possible. Focus on primary user tasks or atypical interactions, and design for maximum scannability by using visuals and succinct text. Additionally
Modes in User Interfaces: When They Help and When They Hurt Users
Modes are not different ways of looking at the same data. For example, in the Mac Finder, the list view and the icon view take the same data (the files and folders stored on the computer) and present them differently, with the list view showing additional metadata absent in the icon view.
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Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases
In China, at the time of our study, mobile-payment applications like Alipay and WeChat Pay were used more than credit cards for ecommerce purchases. (And they were even popular for in-person purchases: just over one third of point-of-sale spending was with mobile-payment apps in 2017). In the
6 Rules for Persuasive Storytelling
For example, let’s say you’re working on a checkout workflow for a novelty gift shop’s website. You interview a user and he tells you about a recent experience he had when purchasing an item. Randy is a father who lives far away from his adult children but likes to send them gifts from time
Journey Mapping 101
An example of a simplistic, high-level customer-journey map depicting how the persona “Jumping Jamie” switches her mobile plan. While all comprehensive journey maps should include key components, what the map chooses to prioritize can (and should) depend on the goal of the journey-mapping
Web Page Footers 101: Design Patterns and When to Use Each
While satisfying these user scenarios may not be the absolutely highest-priority goal for a website, designing a good footer is still a worthy endeavor, because footers have a particularly wonderful usability characteristic: they will never get in the way of users who get their needs satisfied
5 Strategies for Presenting UX Remotely
Every presentation has a story that’s ready to be told. It’s your job as the presenter to take your content and create a story that people will remember when they sign off. UX practitioners are immersed in user’s stories — their wants, needs, context, and actions. The story you tell around
An Insider’s 11 Take-Aways from Companies Winning Industrial (IIoT) Cybersecurity
The most successful startups have a kind of institutional knowledge of industrial control systems (ICS)—often gleaned from working in industrial in their previous careers. They’ve learned important lessons (sometimes the hard way): They know the market. They understand its constraints. They
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
13 Major Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Popular IoT OS FreeRTOS
Hopefully, the discovery of these vulnerabilities will inspire more research into open source components that are used for IoT, helping to make our devices more secure. Uncovering vulnerabilities is a healthy part of the development process and just the start of the conversation. The question for
4 Painless Ways to Pay off Small Business Loans Early
Paying back small business loans (SBL) has become a nightmare for so many entrepreneurs in this millennial age. The research by Main Street Lender on over 10,000 business loan applicants in the U.S disclosed that about 64 percent of applicants were unable to secure any type of financing. About 82
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9 Steps to Assess Whether a Startup is Suitable for Investment
Also, keep in mind the presence of earning potential, sustainable competitive advantage and potential market share. Finally, the “what” is focusing on the questions regarding the list of top customers, strategic relationships. Suppliers need to be considered, as well as on the thorough analysis
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Melissa Hathaway came across our radar recently when President Obama tasked the former Bush administration aide with leading a 60-day review of Bush’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; a largely classified, purported $30 billion, multi phase plan to address cybersecurity issues
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Top 10 Enduring Web-Design Mistakes
Users on BAM Construction’s site wanted details about construction projects, but weren’t sure if the information would fall under Who We Are, What We Do, or How We Do It. Most started in What We Do, but that section contained overviews of the type of work the organization offered to clients
Why Country Sites Are So Bad
This third problem isn't found only with lumbering multinationals. NIH (not invented here) is a universal human feeling, even though it often degrades usability and causes inconsistent design. In our work on non-profit organizations' websites, we often see that local (city or state) groups have
Usability Insights From Sun Microsystem's 1997 Web Design
Homogeneous sites can use simpler navigation that emphasizes one or two organizing principles for very large collections of pages. For example, news sites can use a time line to hide most older stories unless the user explicitly requests them. Also, by encoding richer attributes in XML
