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.
The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
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
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
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
Blockchain Supercharged with AI: The Next Revolution
The Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that enables the storage of data securely and transparently. While cryptocurrencies have been taking the financial ecosystem by storm, blockchain has permeated into almost every industry sector imaginable, from Healthcare to Gaming. The
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’
Visual Design Terms Cheat Sheet
The wireframe on the left is symmetrically balanced because the elements are similar and are evenly distributed across both vertical halves of the page. The wireframe on the right is asymmetrically balanced because some elements are not the similar to their counterparts on the other side of the
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Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
Usability and utility are equally important and together determine whether something is useful: It matters little that something is easy if it's not what you want. It's also no good if the system can hypothetically do what you want, but you can't make it happen because the user interface is too
Unmoderated User Tests: How and Why to Do Them
To better understand this second limitation, think, for example, about the difference between shopping and purchasing. Shopping can include many different types of research and comparison — there’s no single ‘right’ way to do it. In order to shop realistically, participants must first
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
Direct Manipulation: Definition
Despite the many downsides, we still recommend a heavy dose of direct manipulation for most UIs. Direct manipulation often enhances users’ sense of empowerment over the computer by letting them feel that they are in control and are the ones making things happen. The upsides of DM usually enhance
Radio Buttons: Always Select One?
The finality of the action of selecting is not conveyed when none are selected by default. This interaction model is confusing and unexpected, and causes people to feel out of control. And it also instigates people to do crazy things, such as go back and possibly lose content, refresh the page
User Need Statements
First time practitioners are often apprehensive to include anything that is not a verbatim finding from research in their need statements. However, it is important to remember that our users will not always directly say or even know precisely what they specifically need or why. Instead, it is our
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Does User Annoyance Matter?
Knowing a better design exists made it painful to sit, day after day, and watch users fight with the mouse to scroll through the huge menu. Sometimes users selected the wrong menu option and then had to waste even more time with the drop-down. And, in this study, we mainly tested young, able-bodied
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
Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design: How the Trend Slowly Makes Users Less Efficient
Here’s the good news: these new behavior patterns aren’t necessarily the end of the world, they just mean you have to consider them in your designs. And here’s more good news: you don’t have to go back to the garish realism effects of yesteryear to communicate clickability. You can give
Which UX Deliverables Are Most Commonly Created and Shared?
Only 25% of our respondents found pixel-perfect visual mockups to be a useful tool to communicate ideas to their managerial audiences. Considering how frequently we hear from UX professionals that they feel pressure to present high-fidelity visual designs to their stakeholder audiences, it’s
Design Thinking Builds Strong Teams
Traditionally, organizational hierarchy plays a role in whose ideas and opinions are heard. Too often, companies use the “hippo design methodology” (make decisions based on the highest-paid person’s opinion) and the loudest voice or the highest rank wins. In the design-thinking process, team
Groundbreaking Tips for Managing Big Data
Big data is the type of data that is characterized by informational and technical features. A huge and ever-growing data volume, variety of data formats and log of records nature belong to the informational aspects. Traditional solutions were no longer suitable for capturing, storing and processing
Three things every IoT manufacturer should do to improve security
For instance, the moment they left store shelves, devices vulnerable to the Mirai botnet were effectively at the end of their life — there was no way to update the devices or to fix the vulnerabilities, so the only option owners of affected devices had was to buy a new device. Device recalls
8 Things Every Business Should Know About Data Recovery
The frequency of backup must be based on data criticality and affordability. And there’s no debate on whether you should create and maintain a regular backup. The point is when and how. You should backup business database nightly. But in case some data is lost in between the backup cycle, use
How to Differentiate Your Startup in a Red Ocean Industry
If we’re following the ocean analogy here, then we need to address the true nature of the competition. These red waters aren’t uniformly infested, nor are they infested in every corner. Instead, there are pockets of blue ocean to be found within those red oceans. In more literal terms, even
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The 4 Critical Challenges of Tech Startup PR
Any tech startup that has the right mix of PR skills and knowledge should have a head-start in their efforts. A firm grasp on the technology industry-specific challenges laid out here should help, too. With them, a startup has a great chance to build a lasting positive reputation. In an industry
Yes, Entrepreneurs Can Thrive in Corporate Environments
Government-funded or private research facilities at universities or research institutes can provide some of the elements needed. Large companies are also well-suited to create a cross-functional, collaborative, win-together environment. Demonstrated support has been shown by innovation incubators
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Users Interleave Sites and Genres
In our example case, the user also integrated offline information sources. For example, none of the sites helped her figure out how many lumens were needed to show presentations to her target audience size. Luckily, our user was an experienced projector-buyer and owned a reference book with this
TV Meets the Web
Note how my example of selecting stories for a customized evening news show relies on a fairly passive user interface: click a button as a fixed set of choices are read. In general, I think that the amount of initiative and activity required of the user will be the major defining difference between
Ensure High Contrast for Text Over Images
Left: In this edited version, a blur has been added to bottom of photos containing text, and the font color has been changed to the default dark colors instead of white. Additionally, the text has been moved down to have consistent placement with other grid items, allowing the blur to be contained
