WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Named as 2019 Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award Honoree
WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Named as 2019 Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award Honoree
WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Named as 2019 Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award Honoree
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At a gala dinner in San Francisco last night, WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner was named as one of the 2019 Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award honorees. The award celebrates top innovators from companies on Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, 100 Best Workplaces for Women, 100 Best Workplaces for Diversity, and 150 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For.
In addition to placing on one of the distinguished lists above, the leaders must be nominated by their companies for their work in creating a new program or product developed with widespread participation across the organization that delivered a significant business...
At the end of September, we held our 2018 WP Engine Summit in Austin, Texas. Last week, agencies, brands, and digital innovators from EMEA came together in London for the WP Engine EU Summit. Attendees discussed the future of digital experiences, Gen Z’s perception of the Internet, and the
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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
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
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
wp engine ceo heather brunner named as 2019 great place to work for all leadership award honoree
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Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
Clearly it’s possible to disregard the standard for top-left logo placement and still end up with a reasonable website. If you were to show users the website above and ask them what the name of the hotel is, they’d be able to figure it out. It’s easy to see how a designer might decide that
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
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Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases
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wp engine ceo heather brunner named as 2019 great place to work for all leadership award honoree
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Do not ignore research: it can improve your site by several hundred percent. Even when a specific project does not have data from its exact customers using its exact site, it should use general data about the average behavior of Web users with common sites. Well, maybe your site is so unique and
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Business, as well as individuals, need to be cautious about the security loopholes that can come with such devices. For companies, there are plenty of recommended business VPN providers that will help ensure more secure operations without compromising on network speed. For everyday consumers, free
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wp engine ceo heather brunner named as 2019 great place to work for all leadership award honoree
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Give Thanks for Good UX
When following driving instructions, people can now search for and add a stop to their route. Google Maps lets users search for a specific place, or tap to see nearby restaurants or gas stations (including the price per gallon of each one). Previously, users had to exit the current route, search
Photos as Web Content
This is a good example of why it's not always good to copy the biggest sites' designs. Because Amazon hawks a monstrously wide product range, they use a standardized gallery layout that sort of works for many different category pages, without being optimized for any individual category. In
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Newer Web usability guidelines are likely to prove even more stable than the findings from the 1990s. So far, we have not revised a single guideline that we've discovered in research since 2000. Each time we study something again, the guidelines are reconfirmed. We continue to discover new
