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...
What is a child theme? A child theme works in combination with the parent theme. With regards to Genesis, child themes serve as a sort of skin that can change the way a theme looks, while relying on the functionality of its parent theme (in this case, Genesis). Child themes offer users the added
Heather’s leadership at WP Engine has been instrumental in helping the company build an enduring, predictable business, particularly after a key investment from Silver Lake last January, as well as the recent acquisition of StudioPress. Heather also heads a diverse leadership team and has
In this segment, we highlight Untire, an application that helps cancer patients and survivors reduce cancer-related fatigue (CRF) symptoms and regain life. CRF is a common side-effect of cancer and related treatments; patients describe it as a paralyzing level of fatigue that leaves patients
FinTech is Transforming the Finance Industry
As with other emerging and disruptive industries, FinTech has drawn the attention of legislators. In the United States, lawmakers have expressed that FinTech firms need to put more effort into creating opportunities for under served consumers and enterprises. Traditionally, cite lawmakers, these
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’
How Blockchain Can Solve Major Problems for Gig Economy Freelancers
Blockchain technology maximizes the efficiency of cryptocurrency by routing the power to authenticate transactions through a network of nodes and participants. By bypassing banks, blockchain is able to eliminate time delays and transactional errors. Beyond expediting transactions, cross-border
The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
Of the 330 open-ended responses, 232 were qualified responses which were coded to indicate the ad attribute that the participant mentioned (e.g., obstructed content, animated ad) and the affect expressed by the comment (e.g., positive, negative). For example, if a participant indicated she
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'About Us' Information on Corporate Websites - User Research Findings
If they were pressed for time, users didn’t even navigate to a company’s About Us section if they could find answers to their questions from the metadata or rich-answer boxes found on search-engine–results pages. Additionally, people relied on search engines when they were unable to quickly
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
When they call a regular cab, riders have no control — hence, all the anxieties listed above. With Uber, they suddenly get all the control they need: once they order an “uber”, they see how far away the car is and how much they have to wait, they know in advance how much the ride will cost
Overloaded vs. Generic Commands
For mobile apps, it's usually a good idea to have an "application home" that users can return to as a safe base after exploring the apps various areas. This is particularly important for content-rich apps, such as magazines or newspapers. Used this way, the "home" button serves as a generic
Best Application Designs
As another example, the Highlight application's basic feature is to make audio recordings searchable by letting users add a marker when something interesting occurs. For real-world tasks — such as conducting interviews or sitting in a foreign-language class — users wouldn't actually know that
The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)
The World-Wide Web is a prime illustration of the advantages of shared control in user interfaces. The Web changes constantly, and every time users connect to a home page, they might be presented with a completely new interface. For example, AT&T changes its home page daily [3], and in
Let Loyal Shoppers Edit Saved Credit Cards
When a user’s credit card expires, many banks reissue a card with the same number, but an updated expiration date. Allowing the user to update only this information rather than create a new entry, is simpler for the user and better for the site. Out-of-date information is removed, and the update
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Modes in User Interfaces: When They Help and When They Hurt Users
However, even this simple interface also includes access to a mode. Normally, typing a letter in either of the views will highlight other items, based on their names. However, if you click on the text label once, after that item is already selected and highlighted, the name of the item flips into
User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s the difference?
The widest scope of user experience is the relationship level (aka the customer experience). At the relationship level we focus on the lifetime experience that a person has with an organization and his cumulative impression as a patron of that organization. Rather than assessing the quality of one
Using Swipe to Trigger Contextual Actions
Contextual swipe is popular in app development, but when used incorrectly it can cause confusion. Take caution when using it as a primary method of providing actions for content. Although more and more users have learned to associate swipe with delete, some apps still do not use it, while others
Touch Targets on Touchscreens
For example, the David Yurman jewelry website included small circular swatches under each product photo on product-listing pages, to indicate alternate colors available for each. Clicking each swatch would update the product photo on the page, so users could preview the color without navigating to
UX Debt: How to Identify, Prioritize, and Resolve
Your failures will live forever on the internet. Since learning is social, users will continue to be “informed” for years of your missteps by blogs, message boards, video channels, and other sources that discuss the old version. Not only will this outdated information be harmful rather than
Images of Fitbit next smartwatch reveal heart-rate improvements
Fitbit is on schedule, as its boss James Park keeps reminding us, to launch its next smartwatch by the end of the year. We don’t know what the smartwatch will be called, though Blaze 2 seems likely, but thanks to leaks we know its design and some of the hardware improvements. Images obtained by
4 Things Spotify Can Teach You About Data Sharing
After Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal broke this past May, the social network announced it would roll out a suite of new privacy tools. But while Facebook did debut a feature that allows users to access and download their data, it’s months behind on a “Clear History” tool. “That
WireGuard: A Breakthrough in Online Security
It is important here to point out that the key length encryption of WireGuard is limited to 256 bits. Although this might concern some people, in all honesty, 256-bit is already more than enough. Keeping in mind that 256 bit encryption length means 1.15 x 1077 key combinations, the odds are
RW Q&A: Monisha Perkash, founder of Lumo Bodytech
Perkash came up with the idea for Lumo seeing her co-founder and CTO, Andrew Chang, suffering from debilitating back pain. Perkash is married to a spine and sports physician, so she could understand how important posture really was. Perkash advised Andrew to attend a posture class and as a result
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7 Essentials Your Online Startup Needs to Follow
Starting an online business requires you to be extremely smart because 9 out of 10 startups fail and just 10 percent are lucky to enjoy the sweet taste of success. But there are essentials your online startup needs to follow. There are certain things that most of the startups fail to recognize
Small Business Marketing Strategies that Will Work for You
Deciding and jotting down the mission and vision of your business is a key task. With every goal, you need to make a plan for it to execute successfully with a deadline. And every deadline requires a reasonable budget. The goals should be practical and effective for your business. Be careful in
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Maximize Content-to-Chrome Ratio, Not the Amount of Content on Screen
Eliminating the search box and replacing it with a magnifying-glass icon has become almost standard on mobile. It doesn’t work as well on the desktop: the space is simply too large and users don’t have the patience to hunt for a small search icon. If you consider using it on the desktop, keep
Flat-Design Best Practices
Google’s Material Design, which has been around since 2014, took an admirable stab at this concept. The best thing about Material Design was that it defined a carefully considered framework with specific rules, behaviors, and visual properties. Unfortunately, it’s not always implemented
Responsive Web Design (RWD) and User Experience
To truly assess the user experience of a responsive design, do not test your responsive designs only in the comfort of your own office, on your high-speed connection. Venture out into the wild with your smartphone— between tall buildings in a city, in interior conference rooms or basements, in
