WP Engine’s London Office Recognised as a Great Place to Work
WP Engine8217s London Office Recognised as a Great Place to Work
WP Engine’s London Office Recognised as a Great Place to Work
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During a month where many are focused on resolutions around wellbeing and professional and personal growth, we are proud to announce that WP Engine was recognised as a centre for Excellence in Wellbeing by Great Place to Work! To calculate wellbeing, employees completed a survey that analysed for the six dimensions of wellbeing in the workplace: work environment, mental and physical health, financial security, interpersonal security, work-life balance, and fulfillment.
In 2015, WP Engine opened our first global office in London as a physical representation of our desire to expand our team of WordPress specialists and better serve our customers globally. Since then, we’ve worked hard to create a workplace...
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Can the blockchain and IoT solve international freight’s issues?
DS: IOTA is a distributed ledger that can be used for transactional settlements as well as data transfers. Because of the properties of IOTA — namely, its scalability, lightweight-ness and lack of transaction fees – it’s the perfect solution for the Internet of Things. We see IOTA as
How Blockchain Can Solve Major Problems for Gig Economy Freelancers
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Five User Requirements for Online Ads
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wp engine's london office recognised as a great place to work
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
Though interaction has always been important for forming customer impressions in service industries — customers would quit going to McDonalds if they were consistently treated rudely by staff no matter how highly they rate the fries — what’s new is that interaction and user experience have
Brand Vocabulary in the Context of UX: Key Terms Defined
Typically, brands have a set of 3–7 brand attributes, which are well-defined within the context of the organization. In both the Walmart example above and the Spotify example below, the organization has taken time to provide specific definitions for what these potentially vague terms mean for
Scrolling and Scrollbars
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UI Copy: UX Guidelines for Command Names and Keyboard Shortcuts
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Toggle-Switch Guidelines
Every morning, I wake up, pour water into my tea kettle, and flip the switch on. Once the water is boiling, I turn the kettle off and pour myself a cup. The switch on my kettle is an example of a toggle. If you pay close attention, you’ll notice that toggle switches are all around us, because
How to Display Taxes, Fees, and Shipping Charges on Ecommerce Sites
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wp engine's london office recognised as a great place to work
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UX Guidelines for Recommended Content
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A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
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wp engine's london office recognised as a great place to work
Argentina is Stepping-Up as a Country of Web Developers
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WP Engine’s London Office Recognised as a Great Place to Work | Scrolling and Scrollbars
Scrolling and Scrollbars
If you must make your own scrollbars, stay as close to user expectations as possible. Unless your scrollbars look like scrollbars, users might not notice them. Unless your scrollbars behave like scrollbars, users might not be able to bring the desired content into view. In either case, your
Effective Use of Style Sheets
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are an elegantly designed extension to the Web and one of the greatest hopes for recapturing the Web's ideal of separation of presentation and content. The Web is the ultimate cross-platform system, and your content will be presented on such a huge variety of devices
Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation
It appears that other factors (such as the contrast, padding, and legibility of the brand name) affect brand recall more than the position in the center of the page versus the top left corner. For example, the Nolitan hotel websites had a background image behind the logo, which may have
