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.
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
In addition to the work we’re doing with new Genesis themes, we’re also creating ways to make content blocks more efficient, performant, and portable across child themes as part of the core Genesis framework. Part of this effort includes looking at how to leverage the block options that
If you’re looking to run a lifestyle or health and wellness blog, look no further than the Essence Pro Theme. This simple theme eliminates clutter allowing your blog posts and products to shine. Draw the eye right to what’s important with a beautiful photo and headline at the top. Then display
Businesses Broke Ground on Blockchain. What Can Civic Groups Learn?
Such attacks have made security experts skeptical of blockchain-based voting initiatives. To prevent vote manipulation and data breaches, West Virginia will use a three-tier security system for its blockchain voting app. Users will first submit a photo of their government-issued identification
Blockchain in Retail: Changing the Shopping Experience
Counterfeit goods continue to plague global retailers and consumers who seek to enjoy luxury brands. Knockoff goods are often available at the local swap meet. However, finding them on legitimate online retail sites may be surprising. Fake goods are a significant global issue. One
AI and Blockchain Tech Are The Future of Successful Trading
In the past five years, the global financial industry has experienced major disruptions thanks to innovative technologies in AI, Machine Learning, and Blockchain. The rate at which supercomputers are taking over the financial sector is leaving no doubt that the future of finance will largely depend
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Designing and developing a product often involves a large team of people with different backgrounds and experiences who must be on the same page about the project goals, the user needs and behaviors, and even the component processes involved. This common understanding is often built with
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Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
In their definition of user experience, Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen claim that “the first requirement for an exemplary user experience is to meet the exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother.” Brands that choose to address an unmet user need at the core of their business are
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
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
Progress Indicators Make a Slow System Less Insufferable
Studies on websites have shown that, much like the on-hold music and accompanying messages on DMV’s phone line, the graphical progress indicators mitigate the negative effects of waiting, and prolong the user’s attention on your website. In one study, conducted at the University of
10 Best Application UIs
When it comes to modal dialog boxes, our winners have very distinct ideologies. At one extreme is Seating Management. As a real-time application monitoring a physical environment, Seating Management didn't set out to interrupt hostess work in any way. If a hostess wants to seat 5 guests at a table
Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
For example, one link from Emory University’s homepage reads, Restoring vision and hope. What does that mean? Hope for what? Vision for the future? The meaning only becomes clear when the text below the link is read. That descriptive text is necessary for the reader to understand that the link
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UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
People who browse ecommerce websites need to get a clear understanding of the options available to them, with a minimum expense of time or effort. A good presentation of the breadth of products available both on the homepage and within the category pages, as well as clear, descriptive product
The User Experience of Customer-Service Chat: 20 Guidelines
Some canned responses are acceptable, but a lot of canned responses raise suspicion and make people believe that the agent is a bot. “This makes me think I am talking to a bot… The answers seem pretty general” said a user interacting with a Dell agent who had just replied “Glad that you
GitHub erweitert den Funktionsumfang für kostenlose Profile
Anzeige Vergünstigte Paid-Modelle Funktionen wie Code Owners oder SAML-Unterstützung stehen zwar nach wie vor nur zahlenden Teams zur Verfügung, die Preise für die Bezahlmodelle wurden allerdings deutlich reduziert – der Team-Tarif wurde von 9 US-Dollar auf 4 Dollar pro Monat und User
Dropdowns: Design Guidelines
This small study, conducted in front of a crowd of hundreds, shows that sometimes it is enough to run tests with a single user to clearly illustrate a point. Once you see such confusion in action, you realize that using a "helpful" dropdown menu to save users a few keystrokes can hurt more than it
Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done
If your organization uses personas already, but they don’t include the rich goals and behavioral details that are key to having effective personas, start by augmenting the persona artifacts with JTBD-like information: instead of simply listing the persona’s goals, consider formatting this
Robotics and Big Data are Transforming Nursing: 4 Key Insights
Today, big data allows the industry to focus more on preventative care and to monitor the health of entire populations, predicting risk factors and personalizing care. Nurses have access to the patient’s whole health story, allowing them to provide better care, provide better, more personalized
Why There’s a Bright Future in a Cyber Security Careers
If you’re searching for your next career a great place to look is for a job in cyber security. Why? Because the demand for cyber security experts is going up, up, up. Keeping digital assets secure is a vital skillset. As our world grows ever more dependent on the Internet and digital
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 Create a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign for Your Startup
A great strategy here is to set an achievable fundraising goal that supporters can achieve with minimal effort. Therefore, the minimum amount set should be enough to enable your startup to begin when enough people give. Not only should you focus on achieving your funding goal, but also focus on
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Is Artificial Intelligence Still Relevant for Startups?
If artificial intelligence confuses you, think about what happens when it’s not leveraged properly. For context, consider the London-based VC firm MMC who found that about 40% of European AI startups don’t use AI in any tangible way. MMC (and TheVerge) are saying that companies just want
Business Loan vs Equity Financing: How to Fund Your Startup
On the other hand, raising money for your startup through business loan has many potential downsides as well. The first thing that must be kept in mind before opting for a business loan is that you need to make repayments every month. Any default on repayments can prove to be a very costly
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Visibility of System Status
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, take a few moments to look around and note the various types of systems around you, and how they communicate their current status. Your phone or laptop display how much battery life remains; your email application tells you how many unread emails you have
Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
A left-aligned logo is comfortable for users, but because it’s such a longstanding tradition, this standard is a tempting target to anyone wanting to appear unconventional. Violating this convention seems like an easy way of immediately distinguishing a design from its competitors, and standing
TV Meets the Web
When more bandwidth becomes available, it will also be possible to use a television-based Web to assemble more efficient evening news broadcasts optimized for the individual viewer. For example, the show could start by having the anchorperson read the list of the day's headlines. Each family could
