Forms are necessary components of many applications and websites. We use them to log in, purchase items, send feedback, and enter our personal information. Think about the websites you use and how many times you enter information: how often do you run into errors? How frustrating is it to navigate
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Users shouldn’t need to find a tooltip in order to complete their task. Tooltips are best when they provide additional explanation for a form field unfamiliar to some users or reasoning for what may seem like an unusual request. Remember that tooltips disappear, so instructions or other directly
WeChat, the most popular social application in China, had 1 billion monthly active users as of March 2018. WeChat’s integrated services cover all aspects of daily life in China, including social communication, shopping, bill payments, news, and booking services. A product update at the end of
Infographics are often shared on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. These channels can be helpful in driving traffic to your content. However, graphics shared on social media are often reposted without a link to the original source. Consider adding a watermark or logo
If immediate results are not achievable or seem ill-suited, an alternative (i.e. radio buttons or a single checkbox — see chart above) should be used instead. If you’re considering including toggles in long forms where other types of form fields are present, and users will need to click a
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When pages feature both vertical and horizontal scrolling, users have to move their viewport in two dimensions, which makes it hard to cover the entire space. For people with poor spatial visualization skills, it's especially challenging to plan movements along two axes across an invisible plane. (Typically, users score lower than designers on
Using chunking with passwords maybe be difficult for some people because there are no standard characters, such as dashes, used to visually separate the chunks or numbers or words. While some people can do fine with no separator (such as, “mypasswordisthis”), others may be stymied. In my example above, I used capitalization and semicolons to
Are teens getting better or are websites getting better? Probably a bit of both. We observed many of the same bad user habits among teens in our last study as we saw in our first study, back in 2004. Thus, the improved performance obviously stems in part from improvements in website design. That said, even though teens in our original study were
Can the blockchain and IoT solve international freight’s issues?
DS: Right now our main focus is on IOTA, since it’s a foundational element of many of the products we have in mind, including CargoChain. IOTA will launch within a month and we intend to establish an entire new ecosystem for IoT and Blockchain use cases through IOTA. We’re quite excited about that and hope to get more startups and corporations
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability to damage portions of our internal infrastructure
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 that Hathaway was involved in developing. The
How to use Screening Questions to Select the Right Participants for User Research
If there are specific categories of people you need to exclude from the study, an open-ended question will be better than a multiple-choice one with answers that list the excluded categories. For example, unless your design is for expert users, it’s best to exclude those whose job relates to the design you are evaluating, because their
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Net Promoter Score: What a Customer-Relations Metric Can Tell You About Your User Experience
As a result, it’s become customary to include the NPS in user interviews, surveys, or even usability-testing sessions. UX practitioners often use it as a tool to promote buy-in from their company’s senior leadership. Numbers that demonstrate increased customer loyalty (and consequently, future sales and profits) after investing in the UX
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Couple this reality with the fact that designers are wrangling more complex contexts than ever before: As many organizations embrace embedded product- or project-specific team models, there is a growing lack of connection among designers who are spread across those teams. The products and experiences we design continue to become more elaborate
Modes in User Interfaces: When They Help and When They Hurt Users
For example, I have a pair of Bluetooth earphones that block out most outside sound when I’m wearing them. They have a useful toggle that allows me to selectively pass through some outside sound for situational awareness when I need it, such as when I am walking down a busy street. I toggle this mode by double-tapping the button on the
The Layer-Cake Pattern of Scanning Content on the Web
Caption: While the Staff page on www.bacnyc.org page was organized in chunks of information with subheadings, the visual implementation made it difficult to scan. First, the subheadings and names below them appearedin the same font (same typeface, size, and bold). Second, spacing between the chunks of content was irregular, making the page
Typography Terms Cheat Sheet
Typography is a key component in almost every digital experience. However, its complexity and industry-specific language makes it a common source of misalignment and confusion. You don’t have to be a typography expert to design digital interfaces, but it’s important to know some of these terms in order to have meaningful conversations with
StudioPress Theme Spotlight: Daily Dish Pro
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re shifting our focus to food with this new StudioPress Theme: Daily Dish Pro, which is designed to make your content just as appetizing as the best meal at your favorite four-star restaurant. Daily Dish Pro was designed with food
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WP Engine: 2018 in Review
New year, new you, did you say? Well, that was our reality in 2018 as we rolled out some of our favorite new platform additions. We took the lead on the Amazon Polly plugin, the first plugin to bring voice technology to WordPress. The WP Engine Digital Experience Platform continued to evolve and improve in 2018. We’ve enabled customers with
It’s Time to Take Advantage of Amazing Web Week Savings
WP Engine is the WordPress Digital Experience Platform that gives companies of all sizes the agility, performance, intelligence and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech and innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted by over 85,000 companies across 135 countries
Awards of the Best IT Outsourcing Companies: How to Be a Winner?
Finding an IT outsourcing vendor which meets your technology needs and has a clear understanding of your business strategies is a challenging task. Industry recognition is one of the vital criteria which can help you to choose among many IT outsourcing companies. It includes such parameters as IT awards, membership in international and local
4 Expertise Must-haves for Agritech Software Development
Monitoring plant and soil conditions can lead to greater ROIs for farmers. IoT solutions for precision farming are mostly used for reporting weather conditions, sensing for soil nutrients and controlling water usage for optimal plant growth. Moreover, embedded software for smart sensors can help determine custom fertilizer profiles based
Java software outsourcing to Eastern Europe: 7 success stories
SCHAD (now part of Fluke Corporation) Mobile Work Management integrates SCADA and CMMS functionality to enable seamless workflows to be completed on a mobile device. Its products are designed for companies where downtime is crucial. They include airports, warehouses, distribution centers, water treatment facilities, manufacturing operations, and
Expandable Menus: Pull-Down, Square, or Pie?
Pie and marking menus have encountered their moment of glory in the era of touchscreen devices. We see more and more versions of these menus in touch apps. Finally, these menus are in a good position to overcome the unfamiliarity obstacle and translate their theoretical advantages to the real world. However, many of these menus are not optimally
7 Tips for Successful Customization
You may want to allow users to select the background color of their interface, but is there adequate payoff or interest in that option to account for the additional cost of implementation? You may want to allow users to move content areas around a page to create a unique experience, but again, it may not be adequate enticement for casual or
Preventing User Errors: Avoiding Unconscious Slips
Especially when users have to perform repetitive actions, or in situations where they need to use precision, start by offering reasonable defaults that are likely to fit their real-world goals, and then allow them to refine their choices. For example, in a reminder app, a few typical preset options, such as Tomorrow, Next Week, In one Hour, and so
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 the data distinguished with such features
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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 the data distinguished with such features
Data Privacy Attitudes and Connected Cars: A Deeper Look
Demand for apps and services is still red hot even as consumers’ data privacy concerns have gotten warmer. This is borne out by our findings with respect to connected car data: Approximately 80% of those connected car owners and new car buyers who expressed interest in new services based on connected car data (including real-time alerts of
Application Design | How do IoT Sensors Work?
How do IoT Sensors Work?
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However, every IoT system is not the same and is not necessarily apt for all applications. As a matter of fact, they are akin to us humans. Every individual is great at something. You cannot expect an actor to fly an aircraft and a pilot to act in a film. Similarly, you cannot expect a single IoT system (and device) to do everything. Hence
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers
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It’s official: The gig economy is coming to construction. While other industries have been quick to adapt to freelance employment, architects and engineers within the construction sector have lagged behind — and that is beginning to change. Here’s why the gig economy is coming for architects and engineers. The majority of all workers
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A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
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She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability to damage portions of our internal infrastructure
Images of Fitbit next smartwatch reveal heart-rate improvements
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Fitbit is on schedule, as its boss James Park keeps reminding us, to launch its next smartwatch by the end of the year. We don’t know what the smartwatch will be called, though Blaze 2 seems likely, but thanks to leaks we know its design and some of the hardware improvements. Images obtained by Wareable show a similar large display design to the
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design
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