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 2015, WP Engine opened our first global office in London as a physical representation of our desire to expand our team of WordPress specialists and better serve our customers globally. Since then, we’ve worked hard to create a workplace that is collaborative, productive, and fun. Today, we
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
Lead capture features are easily possible with a wide variety of plugins, having a lead capture box on your website is the best feature of 2018. This doesn’t mean it needs to be an obnoxious popup or take up half your page, but a smart lead capture placed in the right spot can encourage visitors
What the Rise of Blockchain can Teach the Regulatory Environment
In the shorter term, regulators can look to blockchain technologies for the situations I mentioned before: disseminating information, streamlining proxy management, and tracking insider activity and beneficial ownership. I believe these and other changes will come about as global equity capital
How Blockchain Can Put an End to Conflict Minerals
So although the Dodd-Frank Act went into law in 2010, the issues remain and are spreading on a massive scale. The advent of millennials becoming a more substantial purchasing power will help all of us. The millennial has their eyes cast upon saving the planet — and gaining civil rights for
The Blockchain Talent Shortage May Be Nearing Its End
The blockchain is more secure than many other technologies, but average, everyday customers may not be ready for the new requirements that come with it. For example, customers already have trouble remembering a basic username and password; in most blockchain applications, users are required to keep
Remote Ideation: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Of course, asynchronous ideation could also be conducted using a physical channel — for example, ideas can be posted to a bulletin board or a white board in a shared location such as a meeting room or hallway, and team members view and contribute to this space according to their own schedules
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Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Submenus triggered from contextual menus can easily disappear if the cursor moves away from the primary list item or if the user accidentally clicks outside of the contextual menu. If a submenu is needed, make sure that none of its options open yet another level of submenus and don’t overload it
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Brand is a tool for influencing choice. Brand is not made of visuals or words alone — it’s not a logo or a slogan. Nor is it a figurehead, such as Steve Jobs. Those things are simply ways to communicate the brand. Although a figurehead such as Elon Musk or a logo such as McDonald’s golden
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
Closeness of Actions and Objects in GUI Design
That mainstream corporate websites make blatant usability mistakes is understandable because most members of their teams aren't grounded in graduate degrees in human-computer interaction. (That's why I have recently added foundational courses, such as The Human Mind, to my usability conference
10 Best Application UIs
But Xero might be a more interesting example, simply because it targets the traditionally dry domain of accounting. One of its main features lets users automatically reconcile bookkeeping entries with bank account transactions. As a match is made, the 2 matching entries are removed from the list of
How Community Can Drive Commerce: A Lesson from China’s Little Redbook
The success of China’s Redbook illustrates the power of community and trustworthiness in ecommerce. Redbook encourages participation in its ecommerce community in order to build quality, trustworthy content. By combining this strong community with other tactics that establish its products’
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Infinite Scrolling is Not for Every Website
The success of infinite scrolling on social media sites such as Twitter have made this technique popular, but that doesn’t mean you should do it too. Continuous scrolling is advantageous for content that streams constantly and has a relatively flat structure, where each unit of content belongs at
Store Finders and Locators
Our initial research on store locators was conducted 18 years ago. Our subsequent studies have found that the majority of our initial findings have remained stable, though many of our guidelines have been updated to reflect modern design trends and developments, as well as changes in user behavior
6 Tips for Successful Personalization
In some instances, there may well be good reason to use personalization to remove access to certain information. Examples include restricting a minor’s access to particular content or limiting employee access to a site section intended for employees in other areas of the world. An employee in
iOS Design Rules to Break
The iOS home screen uses dots (page control) to indicate the current view and the number of additional views (that is, additional pages of apps pages) available. Although this is one of the most recognized and common examples of the dots, it’s also one of the few cases where they work tolerably
Without the true page title, people are left with no clues for the content of the tab. Users often keep frequently visited pages such as Facebook or news websites open throughout the day in order to revisit them and check for updates. Users who are shopping or conducting research may be parked on
Security Teams Need to Be Prepared With an Incident Response Plan
Designing an incident response plan takes time, but it’s far less stressful to plan before an event than during or after one. Some time-strapped businesses might be tempted to download a generic security plan off the internet, but without the time investment on the front end, nobody in the
AI Learning Algorithms Find Your New Target Groups
While the current communication is still between consumer and corporate bot, it will be increased next year. Therefore, marketing activities have to be adapted to the bot channels. SEO and SMM will also have to rethink things. The so-called “Bot Engine Optimization,” or BEO for short
What Does the Repeal of Net Neutrality Mean for Your Data Security?
Finally, the Data Privacy and Security Insider offers numerous tips that cover the current scams and tactics hackers use to steal personal data. For example, it recently noted that cell phone locations were being leaked and sold. These tips also listed specific apps that were exposing parent and
How to Open a Company Bank Account for Your Startup & Avoid the Pitfalls
A common issue that many startups run into is not realizing that different types of entities have different signing requirements, and this can lead to a number of issues when opening the bank account. For example if your startup is setup as a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) and it is member
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Despite What You Hear, You Don’t Need VC Funding
We also built and nurtured relationships with a few big companies that were trying to push a video platform product. These partners gave us access to valuable leads and minimized the need for a large and expensive sales team; put another way, our partners were our warriors. We relied on them to do
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
WP Engine All Hands Spring 2019: EMEA | The Anatomy of a List Entry
The Anatomy of a List Entry
Together, the placement and visual treatment of information create a visual path that leads the eye through the collection of attributes in the order of their importance, making it efficient and easy to scan each list entry. Many users may only need to do a shallow scan of the most important and
Customer-Service Information on Websites: The Hub-and-Spoke Model
In the end, each participant had to make a best guess and select from the available options, rather than confidently proceeding down a path to the answer. One user clicked on Returns because it seemed the most logical option. She spent several minutes reading about returns before opting to use the
Computer Screens Getting Bigger
The 1024×768 became the leading monitor size in 2004 and has only just been dethroned by a (slightly) larger screen resolution of 1366×768, according to StatCounter. The change over from 1024×768 to bigger screens actually occurred in 2009, but there were so many different larger-resolution
