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...
Austin’s Annual PRIDE celebration is one of the largest opportunities for local non-profit organizations, social groups, and causes to gain exposure in the LGBTQ community. This year marked 28 years of Pride events in Austin. This year’s parade emphasis was awareness, equality and
During Web Week, we encourage our customers to take advantage of this low-stress time of year to create more personalized, dynamic, and better-performing digital experiences. For brands and agencies, this is the perfect time to kick your feet up, re-access, and get creative. It’s the ideal time
To conclude the Summit, we heard from WP Engine leaders who offered a look into the WP Engine roadmap. This included a look at newly released products, like our Global Edge Security offering in partnership with Cloudflare, as well as a deep-dive into our recent acquisition of StudioPress. To wrap
Can Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Alone Save $2 Trillion in Preventing Cybercrime?
It’s through smart contracts that transactions can be made whilst their details can be kept both transparent and secure. Writing about their new smart contracts-based Ethereum trading platform, Confideal stated: “To put it simply, code is not law, but smart contracts created on a platform
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’
A Tale of Two Bubbles: Why Cryptocurrency Isn’t the Next Dot-Com
Recent fluctuations in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were the direct result of new regulations announced by the South Korean government, and other regulatory agencies across the world are guaranteed to make similar moves. They will eventually make examples of nefarious players
Accot-Zhai Steering Law: Implications for UI Design
The Steering Law states that narrow, long tunnels are more difficult to navigate than short, wide ones. Dropdown menus, hierarchical menus, sliders, and other path-following UI elements should be designed so that the corresponding tunnel is as wide and as short as possible. Remember that such
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‘Our Users Are Everyone’: Designing Mass-Market Products for Large User Audiences
One big problem with failing to define your users occurs when you evaluate the design. If you plan a research study with no restrictions on who can participate, you could easily end up with all your participants being quite similar to each other. This is no problem if your system is only intended
Design Thinking 101
Imagine your goal is to improve an onboarding experience for new users. In this phase, you talk to a range of actual users. Directly observe what they do, how they think, and what they want, asking yourself things like ‘what motivates or discourages users?’ or ‘where do they experience
Confirmation Dialogs Can Prevent User Errors (If Not Overused)
There is admittedly a tension between guidelines #1 and #2: you want to warn against serious consequences, but you don’t want to warn so often that the warning is overlooked and the answer becomes an automated behavior. The solution is to conduct a task analysis to determine the severity of
What the Erroneous Hawaiian Missile Alert Can Teach Us About Error Prevention
In the case of the mistaken missile alert, some news outlets have provided examples of the interface involved. The same system screen is used to deliver several different types of emergency alerts to the public including amber alerts, road closures, and high-surf warnings. There are 9 unique
Slider Design: Rules of Thumb
When designing a usable UI we must consider the context in which the interface will be used. For mobile design in particular, users often hold their device in one hand while doing other activities—watching television, walking, or even driving. In such circumstances it can be daunting to tap and
Show Prices for Common Scenarios
In this case, you have at least two options. You could offer a configurator that lets hospital administrators estimate the exact supplies and their prices. This option might help users who are motivated to engage deeply with the site, but it would also be fairly complicated and time-consuming to
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One Billion Internet Users
Putting aside the details of how to make the multi-billion-user Web work, the very fact that it's realistic to expect a second billion users points to interactive media's compelling value. People all over the world are experiencing unprecedented levels of empowerment: being able to do things is why
Wishlist or shopping cart? Saving products for later in ecommerce
Anthropologie.com confusingly offered both a Move to Wish List and Save for Later options for shopping-cart items. Move to Wish List required the user to either log in or create an account, both of which derail the checkout process. Save for Later, however, did not require registration and
Modal & Nonmodal Dialogs: When (& When Not) to Use Them
Irreversible errors often result in the loss of information, which can be especially damaging for complex and time-intensive tasks. For example, failing to add an item to a cart might be an unfortunate error for an ecommerce business, but not irreversible to its users should they not notice a
Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
Learn more is the new Click here. Some of its popularity is likely due to a misunderstanding about how people read online. Mailchimp might justify using a vague link (Learn more) because it follows a very specific and well-written tagline (Make your life easier with automation). However
Ideation in Practice: How Effective UX Teams Generate Ideas
While this includes those who do not have the time to ideate at all, it also covers a fair number of instances where ideation isn’t being planned as a formalized part of the design process and thus may occur at any and all stages of the design process, including after prototyping and
The Evolution of Healthcare Data: 5 Little Known Facts
With more hospitals using EHR, HITECH and HIPAA were revised and expanded in 2013. Fixes included increased protection and control for patients over their own data. Today, hospitals must adhere to strict data security guidelines or face non-compliance consequences. HIPAA audits look at about 180
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: Which Is the Best Data Architecture?
But for most companies embarking on big data initiatives, structured data is only part of the story. Each year, businesses generate a staggering quantity of unstructured data. In fact, 451 Research in conjunction with Western Digital found that 63 percent of enterprises and service providers are
3 CRM Features You Need to Become GDPR Compliant
If your CRM system helps you collect data on contacts as well as organize/analyze it, it needs to be able to create GDPR compliant opt-in forms. When someone creates an account with your business or offers up information in exchange for a lead magnet, they need to be able to actively check a box
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
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For Startups, a SaaS Solution is an HR Killer App
Startups, more than any other stage of the company, rely on talented workers to build out new products and establish their markets. That makes building out a human resources (HR) department as close to a must-have as you will find for an average startup. At the same time, research reveals that as
Argentina is Stepping-Up as a Country of Web Developers
The most obvious skill to look out for is design experience. A developer that can code in multiple languages, whether that be HTML, Javascript, CSS or PHP, has an edge over the rest. Businesses, today more than ever, need to set themselves apart from the competition. Relying on themes and templates
WP Engine All Hands Spring 2019: EMEA | Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design
Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design
Sometimes the answer is simply not there and you lose the sale because users have to assume that your product or service doesn't meet their needs if you don't tell them the specifics. Other times the specifics are buried under a thick layer of marketese and bland slogans. Since users don't have
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
The Fold Manifesto: Why the Page Fold Still Matters
By contrast, once the user starts scrolling, the Mod Notebooks site does a good job of encouraging further exploration. The site provides anchor-based navigational options to help users jump to topics of interest. On screens of a variety of sizes, text and images span across pages, leading the
