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 fun! WP Engine helped celebrate Pride in the Austin Pride Parade. Accompanied by an eclectic iris-blue 1954 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and decked out in glowing. colorful swag, the men and women of WP Engine helped the Austin community celebrate inclusion and equality. Here’s a look at some of the festivities in pictures.
Are there old shortcodes lingering around, bulking up your code? Do you still have widgets installed that you don’t use anymore? Perhaps your dashboard is full of comment spam. Maybe you need better analytics software or want to start reaching more audiences by adding more localized content
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 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
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’
Blockchain Success Stories Show Valuable Opportunities
IIN’s developers are hoping it will be the eventual successor to the current interbank messaging standard, known as SWIFT, as it will facilitate international money transfers by decreasing the amount of time it now takes to resolve regulatory or other data-related delays. They expect such
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
To identify a design's most important usability problems, testing 5 users is typically enough. Rather than run a big, expensive study, it's a better use of resources to run many small tests and revise the design between each one so you can fix the usability flaws as you identify them. Iterative
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Unless you have an unlimited clothes budget, it’s unrealistic (and wasteful) to wear a new outfit for every single occasion, yet social media pressures us into it. Rent a Runway solves this tension elegantly by recycling (expensive) clothes across a large set of women. It’s an example of the
The Impact of Interaction Design on Brand Perception
In interactive systems such as websites, the way people interact with the user interface obviously has a strong impact on their feelings about the system. We know that people prefer designs that are easy to use. But as this research shows, the impact of interaction design goes deeper than simple
Sliders, Knobs, and Matrices: Balancing Exploration and Precision
Your browser does not support the video tag. Video of Garageband knob behavior during click and drag (Click to play video.) GarageBand has multiple knob controls that can be clicked and dragged vertically to control rotation. This design supports devices (such as mice) that don’t handle rotation
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Rather than hiding irrelevant actions, disable them so that users won’t have to try to find where menu items disappeared, nor will they have to determine how to get the system back in the proper context to reveal a specific command. Also, make sure that you include all options (instead of just
A Checklist for Designing Mobile Input Fields
Whether you're designing web pages, web-based applications (e.g., SaaS), or native mobile apps, one of the basic building blocks is the humble text-input field: a box where the user can enter some text. Uses of this widget are plenty and not the topic of this article. We should point out that there
Helpful Filter Categories and Values for Better UX
As much as possible, avoid filter categories with vague labels like Item Type. Words like Category, Format, Content Type, or Genre are better, because they feel a bit more specific and tailored to the current item. For example, products can be divided into Product Categories, while movie rentals
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UX Research Cheat Sheet
User-experience research methods are great at producing data and insights, while ongoing activities help get the right things done. Alongside R&D, ongoing UX activities can make everyone’s efforts more effective and valuable. At every stage in the design process, different UX methods can keep
Don't Force Users to Register Before They Can Buy
Rather than forcing users to register before checking out, provide the option to register within the checkout process by presenting optional fields for the user to enter a password. This puts users in control and allows them to decide if it is worthwhile to register or not. In our e-commerce
Basic Patterns for Mobile Navigation
However, keep in mind that when navigation is hidden under a menu, even though that menu as a whole may be salient enough, users will have to make a decision to open it and check whether the individual navigation options are relevant. While the navigation menu is becoming standard and many mobile
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Swipe gestures are not deployed consistently in all lists, so people don’t always think to use them and as a result, the gestures become less discoverable. Swipe actions are accelerators intended to speed up interactions for power users, but the actions available through the gesture should also
UX Expert Reviews
For each usability problem, it’s important to have a clear explanation: the heuristic or principle violated should be clearly cited and related to the design, so that any fix will address the underlying issue and the same mistake will be avoided elsewhere as well. Whenever possible, the
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
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
Nearshoring Basics for Software Development
Nearby countries tend to have fewer language barriers, be culturally similar, and run on similar time zone schedules. Management can travel there more often to provide necessary oversight or help build the company culture. For the software industry, it also means taking advantage of skilled and
Your Pitch to VCs is More Than a Deck
There is a difference between your pitch, a distillation of your vision, and the deck, a tool that facilitates your pitch. There’s also a difference between the presenter, the person who communicates the most important points, and the presentation, the cumulative experience that includes
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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
SEO DIY: Optimize Your Startup’s Website Yourself
Anyone who pays attention to the world of search engine optimization knows that maximizing your company’s search results on Google and other search engines is not something you can do with a quick pin here and a hasty status update there. It’s a full-time job. But if you’re
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Changes in Web Usability Since 1994
There are still a few users who rarely scroll. Even those users who are willing to scroll may be tempted to choose one of the initially visible options when it seems to match their goals. Such users will never see an even better, but invisible, choice that would have required scrolling. Therefore
Ensure High Contrast for Text Over Images
When choosing to place text over an image, consider both the text color and the main color of the image. Images with mostly light-colored backgrounds—or images edited to appear faded—are not well suited to white text because the colors are too similar. In these situations, the background will
Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
Att.com: The label Wireless that hid the mobile-phone plans has different meanings to different people. On the desktop (top), the icon saved the poor label, clarifying the mobile-phone meaning of wireless. However, on the mobile version of the website (bottom), the icon wasn’t available to help
