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.
While some of that spark comes from our roots as an eight-year-old startup, it’s also part of a pioneering spirit we actively foster through various activities during the year. Arguably some of the most impactful—and most fun—are our bi-annual hackathons, where teams of developers and
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
We aim to amaze customers with our expertise, service, and transparency. That’s why The WP Engine Support Team works tirelessly and 24/7 to ensure that we provide customers with peace of mind and confidence. We believe this customer-inspired mentality has helped us achieve a current support NPS
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The overriding feeling that permeated the various meetings at the Prague conference was that this is not a time for inactivity, and Ethereum essentially needs to accelerate out of this tailspin. According to many developers, the best way to do that is to build on its early success in the field of
The Future of Blockchain: Technology Partnerships with AI, Bots, and IoT
As these chatbots become increasingly more knowledgeable through being put through the paces of assisting with customer service requests and marketing interactions, they will be able to do more and become more seamless in their communication capabilities. For example, the current natural language
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
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
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Pre Uber we were all plagued with standing on the corner, possibly in the rain, belongings in hand while attempting to wave down one of the few free taxis. (The worse the rain, the fewer the taxis — that’s a law of nature.) An abundance of unknowns adding further anxiety: how much is it going
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6 Tips for Successful Personalization
In some instances, there may well be good reason to use personalization to remove access to certain information. Examples include restricting a minor’s access to particular content or limiting employee access to a site section intended for employees in other areas of the world. An employee in
Group Form Elements Effectively Using White Space
You might be wondering, "if proximity is such a problem, then why not place the labels inside the text fields?". Don't be tempted. When you place the labels inside the text field as filler text, the label disappears when users input their text and they must remember it as they fill in the field
Tooltip Guidelines
Tooltips are hard to discover because they often lack visual cues. If tooltips are erratically displayed throughout your site, people may never discover them. It’s important to be consistent and provide tooltips for all the elements in your design rather than just for some. If only some of the
Usability Testing with Minors: 16 Tips
Conducting user research with young users requires additional considerations compared with studies with adult participants. For example, from a legal perspective, children and teens cannot give their own permission to participate in the study and therefore we must work with their parents or legal
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Customer-Service Information on Websites: The Hub-and-Spoke Model
Although users were generally successful at finding customer-service information on websites, the path to this content was not always straightforward. Many study participants had to work hard to find the information they sought, and this process often included a lot of trial and error as users
Helping Users Find Physical Locations
In our study, Toys R Us failed miserably because www.toysrus.com has been co-branded with www.amazon.com. Even though Amazon is usually a great site, the Toys R Us area was so oriented toward e-commerce that the vast majority of our users never found the link to the physical stores. The link was
Narrative Biases: When Storytelling HURTS User Experience
When asked about a general case (what’s a more common level of educational achievement), we naturally consider the prevalence, or base rate, of educational achievement among the entire population. But in the presence of a specific detail (such as the act of reading the New York Times), we often
Accordions for Complex Website Content on Desktops
An accordion menu is a vertically stacked list of headers that can be clicked to reveal or hide content associated with them. It is one of many ways you can expose content to users in a progressive manner. Allowing people to have control over the content by expanding it or deferring it for later
Design Guidelines for Input Steppers
We usually don’t recommend having lots of different interaction techniques to achieve the same goal, because the need to learn and choose between multiple methods adds its own overhead to the UI. However, in the case of steppers, the alternate input methods are not visually prominent and people
Blockchain Supercharged with AI: The Next Revolution
Artificially intelligent systems could help bring down this cumbersome process by reducing the computing power needed to confirm these transactions. As the Hashing algorithms used to confirm transactions on a blockchain network often uses a “brute force” approach. An AI system could
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But one shouldn’t count data lakes out just yet. Data marketplaces can rescue the promise of data lakes by organizing them for the end user. Just as the internet was much more difficult to navigate before Google, data marketplaces unlock the powerful data lake architecture.In the analytics
Cryptojacking Malware: What It Is and How to Fix It
But if those same PCs and laptops are being switched on and maxed out after everyone leaves each night, they won’t last nearly as long. It may not be immediately obvious, but the processors will burn out sooner than expected. This can lead to employees having trouble maintaining their
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Plenty of other companies compete in the crowded analytics space, but Google’s free options provide everything small companies need. You can access intuitive charts, detailed reports, and more, then share your findings with your teams through other Google products to design more effective
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5 Ways Blockchain Startups Can Appeal to Enterprises
Blockchain technology offers a significant boost to productivity. Today’s enterprises mostly operate on software purchased from major vendors like SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft. When they work with business partners that have different systems, those systems don’t always agree on details like order
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
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Kill the 53-Day Meme
I arrived at the estimate by quite simple means: I collected estimates of the number of web servers from many public sources, such as the various WWW robots (programs that traverse the Web and move on from each server to any other servers it links to). I used the average of the numbers from those
Pop-ups and Adaptive Help Get A Refresh
Microsoft’s Clippy was poorly received, in part because it appeared without the users’ direct request. Like pop-up windows, the animation surprised and annoyed users who hadn’t wanted help (violating rule #1 at the top of this article). But the intent was good: anticipate the user need and
Give Thanks for Good UX
Thanksgiving is fast approaching in the US. So, in the holiday spirit, we’d like to take a moment to express appreciation for some of the designs that bring us joy. I know that sometimes we, UX professionals, can get a reputation as curmudgeons: always criticizing and pointing out flaws. However
