Last week, WP Engine employees from all over the U.S. came together at our Austin headquarters for the first biannual All-Hands event of 2019. All Hands is a two-day event in which employees from other offices and teams around the country get the chance to collaborate and strategize with one another. This year’s theme was “Boldly Go” in honor of the famous sci-fi saga Star Trek. This event agenda was full of events to help nurture growth at both the individual level as well as company-wide. Not to mention, we got to have some fun!
Events on the agenda included team lunches, information sessions, inspirational speeches, a Hackathon, advice panels, trivia, and...
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re extra excited to bring you this new StudioPress Theme: Breakthrough Pro, which is the first new theme to be launched since our acquisition of StudioPress in June. Breakthrough Pro
Admin Columns helps you to manage your content faster and better. It’s one of those plugins you didn’t know you were missing until you’ve started used it. It gives you perfect insight into your content and can drastically reduce the time you need to find, sort, filter, export, and
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
Developers Set to Use Bear Market as an Opportunity to Accelerate Ethereum Upgrades
November 2018 will not go down in history as a glorious month in the evolution of cryptocurrency, with all the major digital currencies taking a dive in value, largely as a result of the furore surrounding the Bitcoin Cash hard fork. It prompted even more media drama than usual, partly because it
Blockchain Metrics Will Add Transparency to Investing and Better Inform Investors
In the cryptocurrency market, a typical example of aggregated financial data would encompass historical performance of crypto assets, the amount of investment in each asset, corresponding dates and how all the data relates to general market sentiment and major events. Investors furnished with such
Optimizing Business Decisions With Blockchain Technology
When businesses fail to make better decisions, they are bound to fail. In fact, studies have shown that most firms fail at strategy formulation and execution rather than product development. Simply put, a business may have the best product in the world, but if it fails to make the right
The Layer-Cake Pattern of Scanning Content on the Web
People don’t usually read every word on a webpage, in an app, or even in an article or text passage. Instead, they often scan — because their experience with many websites has taught them that scanning can deliver almost the same value (that is, amount of information) with significant less
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Dot Voting: A Simple Decision-Making and Prioritizing Technique in UX
The more important a decision is, the more imperative it is to get educated votes. Give participants time ahead of the voting session to do their research. For example, if developers will vote on technical feasibility, they should have time to dig into APIs or existing code before casting their
Browser and GUI Chrome
What do we mean when talking about the "chrome" in a user interface design? An attendee asked this question during a recent course on Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet. Whenever someone asks us a basic question, I assume that many more people want the answer as well — and thus, this article on
Assessing the Usability of a User Interface Standard
Note that ISO 9241 will eventually have 19 parts. The pagecount given here is a projection on the basis of drafts of six of these parts, assuming that the remaining parts will have the same average pagecount as these parts. Also note that the complete set of ISO standards applicable to user
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
Top 10 Intranet Trends of 2016
Salini Impregilo has four major social sections with clear content types; this helps users understand what is acceptable to post. These include: employee selfies, a discussion forum, a corporate-vocabulary wiki, and contests to stimulate creativity. The company’s intranet also displays the names
Design Thinking 101
This is the most important part of design thinking, but it is the one most often forgotten. As Don Norman preaches, “we need more design doing.” Design thinking does not free you from the actual design doing. It’s not magic. Milton Glaser’s words resonate: “There’s no such thing as a
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Why Personas Fail
Not everybody knows why they’re useful and how to reference them. It is up to you to educate your stakeholders, illustrate their effectiveness, and solidify their use on projects. Lead by example: don’t let the personas fizzle out, continue to bring them into meetings to set the stage for
Conversion Rate: Definition as used in UX and web analytics
Now what's the value of having that "interesting" data from the additional question? Maybe the company can make $100,000 based on that deeper knowledge about customers. If so, do keep the extra question and the less-usable form. But, in most cases we know of, the value is closer to zero because the
Which UX Deliverables Are Most Commonly Created and Shared?
However, when working with external client audiences, pixel-perfect mockups were one of the most frequently selected deliverables, with 47% of respondents choosing a high-fidelity mockup as effective. The only deliverables more frequently selected for client work were interactive prototypes (67
Breaking Web Design Conventions = Breaking the User Experience
The site uses several visual-design trends that are popular now, such as minimal content and a full-width image that fills the page above the fold. Long-scrolling, image-heavy pages feature vertically stacked containers, card, and grid layouts, and mimic horizontal swipe on desktop. While these
UX Guidelines for Recommended Content
Of course, marking items as unwanted or irrelevant is not limited to advertisements. While browsing personalized show recommendations on Hulu, one study participant noticed several reality shows that did not match his interests. He was wasn’t sure why they were recommended to him. When asked what
Five Best Open-Source Antivirus’ for Carefree Cyber-Threat Protection
You can detect a lot of different types of malicious software by using open source antivirus products. Experienced developers in both fields will tell you this is the most secure way to connect to the internet today. These programs simply make their code available for free so you can modify and
What to Consider When Leveraging File Sharing
File sharing delivers convenience, collaboration, and productivity. However, to get the most out of it while maintaining data security, you need a thoughtful approach for file and folder management. That means considering each person’s role, project involvement, security level, and length of time
4 Reasons Behind Slow Adoption of IoT
The best thing about it is that all these interconnected devices and beings are going to be able to communicate with one another. But when is this going to happen? Of course, some changes are already obvious and people are currently working in order to develop more of the IoT technology, but
How to Fail Your Way to Success
The business plan is a blueprint for the financials and can give basic indications of whether what you are thinking of is even worth doing at all. The problem is that these business plans often stop you from employing the basic trial and error methodology adopted by most the most successful
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How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups
Even old-school startups are joining the scene. On November 7 tech darling Salesforce brings its popular Growth Camp series to the Twin Cities. The free tech conference for small businesses and startups features local speakers, 1:1 tech tutorials, a keynote from acclaimed marketing evangelist
Purpose, Balance and Interface Are Keys to Successful Teams
This opportunity might come in the form of a critical discussion that can’t be done in person — but has to be of high quality. Anyone who’s had a moment like this go sideways understands the value of a system that is easy, fast and affordable. And the right tools have an impact beyond
WP Engine All Hands Spring 2019: US | The Illusion of Completeness: What It Is and How to Avoid It
The Illusion of Completeness: What It Is and How to Avoid It
In order to browse news articles on the Yahoo Digest iOS app, users must swipe to reveal the next article. This gesture is much like removing the top card from a deck of cards to reveal the card below (and it’s the reason why this interaction pattern is called a “deck of cards”). In this
Web Page Footers 101: Design Patterns and When to Use Each
Some companies are so massive that they own or preside over dozens of other companies. Some use universal navigation to connect these child companies with the parent one. It can also be helpful to include a list of subsidiaries and brands in the footer to reinforce awareness of other brands or
Users Interleave Sites and Genres
The user's sponsored link clicks were disappointing from an advertiser's standpoint: she wasn't looking to buy on their sites, merely to look at the information they provided. For example, after having identified several possible projectors, the user wanted to estimate total cost of ownership by
