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...
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re shifting our focus to food with this new StudioPress Theme: Daily Dish Pro, which is designed to make your content just as appetizing as the best meal at your favorite four-star
When it comes to facilitating a truly enjoyable and productive workplace, it takes more than just the promise of perks and ping pong. Employees want their workplaces to reflect what they value and expect out of the company they work for: trustworthiness, morality, and the opportunity to grow both in
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
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
Developers Set to Use Bear Market as an Opportunity to Accelerate Ethereum Upgrades
The second most famous cryptocurrency in existence has had challenges of its own this year, particularly from the direction of Ripple, which overtook it in terms of market cap back in September. This was followed by a dramatic fall in the Ethereum price in recent weeks, but the developers seem to
AI and Blockchain Tech Are The Future of Successful Trading
In the past five years, the global financial industry has experienced major disruptions thanks to innovative technologies in AI, Machine Learning, and Blockchain. The rate at which supercomputers are taking over the financial sector is leaving no doubt that the future of finance will largely depend
Typography Terms Cheat Sheet
Some typefaces must be purchased from a type foundry, while others are available in the public domain. When deciding between typefaces for your designs, it is important to consider whether it is web-safe or not. If a typeface is not web-safe, the text may not load as desired, which typically
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Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites
It is not enough to post deals and coupons on the site without thinking about how they will be used and applied by your customers. Coupon codes posted on the site should be interactive and easy to apply with one click; those promotions offered to users in response to a specific action (e.g
The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
While, as a whole, web usability has improved over these past several years, history repeats and designers make the same mistakes over and over again. Designers and marketers continuously need to walk a line between providing a good user experience and increasing advertising revenue. There is no
Mobile: Native Apps, Web Apps, and Hybrid Apps
It’s arguably cheaper to develop hybrid and web apps, as these require skills that build up on previous experience with the web. NN/g clients often find that going fully native is a lot more expensive, as it requires more specialized talent. But, on the other hand, HTML5 is fairly new, and good
Date-Input Form Fields: UX Design Guidelines
Prevent users from selecting illogical dates. Obviously, what’s reasonable will depend from case to case: for example, dates older than 130 years will be unlikely for birthdates, but quite acceptable for document dates. Users should be prevented from entering a return date that takes place before
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
In-Store & Online: Designing For the Changing Behaviors of Today’s Shoppers
Not all transitions can be avoided and some of them are options built into the shopping experience. Such transitions often occur when users return or exchange an online item or visit a store to pick up items ordered online. The best omnichannel experiences anticipate when customers will move to a
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Status Trackers and Progress Updates: 16 Design Guidelines
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) provide a status tracker for people applying for a green card or work permit. Following the creation of an account, applicants can log in to access the status tracker on USCIS’s website and see the status of their case. This feature is great to
The New Ecommerce User Experience: Changes in Users’ Expectations
Shoppers want the ability to go to a physical store to view, pick up, or return products discovered online. In-store pickup is convenient for users when an item is needed quickly or when they want to avoid shipping charges. In addition, seeing accurate and reliable inventory information for nearby
Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners
The answers to this question show that most practitioners include elements from Zone A: The Lens , and Zone B: The Experience in their journey maps. Personas and scenarios are used in almost 80% of journey maps created by the participants. Furthermore, respondents reported that user actions
Breaking Web Design Conventions = Breaking the User Experience
Regarding “The Everything Directory” (the 2nd category in the global navigation) this alphabetical listing of the university’s online content was not helpful for users. Alphabetical listings can work well when there is a well-known, common vocabulary for the terms used. At a university
Parallel Design and Testing by Jakob Nielsen and Jan Maurits Faber
Tables 1 and 2 show that version 2's average overall usability was 118 when designed by traditional iterative design and 170 when designed by merging four earlier parallel designs. Thus, parallel design was 44 percent better. During the next, iterative phase of the parallel design process, the
The Key IoT Security Questions You Need To Ask
Another question to ask is how you will prevent unsolicited inbound connections from wreaking havoc on your devices? Make sure that only devices are allowed to initiate connections and not the IoT hub. And speaking of the IoT hub: make sure that the one you’re using has the capability of
4 Things Spotify Can Teach You About Data Sharing
Dutch media studies professor Robert Prey argues that granularity is the key to Spotify’s campaign. “We find that there’s incredible detail in the data,” Prey told Haley Weiss, editorial fellow at The Atlantic. “There’s all this information: everything from what brand of headphones
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
For Startups, a SaaS Solution is an HR Killer App
The problem, however, is that screening all those potential new hires takes time, and that costs money. If there’s anything most startups can ill afford, it’s spending significant portions of their operating budgets on anything other than building viable products and lines of business
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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
Standardizing “Tribal Knowledge”: It’s Time for Your Company to Grow Up
I’ve found that the best way to foster standardization is to create a widely accessible company knowledge base — a place to capture intellectual property, best practices, and informal “tribal knowledge” contributed by employees along the way. This kind of growing knowledge base can
WP Engine All Hands Spring 2019: EMEA | 100 Million Websites
100 Million Websites
When designing a website, comply with users' expectations. In a mature system, differentiation doesn't come from a contrarian user interface. Such interfaces serve only to chase users away from a site. The Web is no longer a marvel of innovation, it's an everyday tool, and you differentiate
Scrolling and Attention
First, it could be that, overall, designers are doing a good job of creating signifiers to counteract the illusion of completeness and to invite people to scroll. In other words, they are aware of the disadvantages of the long page and mitigate them to some extent. Second, it could mean that users
Marginalia of Web Design
Different pages need different titles. It is very unpleasant to visit, say, seven pages with the same title and then try to go back to a specific page from the history list. Also, of course, bookmarking more than one page from such a site is a guaranteed usability problem, since the
