Propy is a blockchain startup that helps people find property abroad. The company provides a comprehensive overview of each building they sell, as well as a detailed description of the neighborhoods. Propy uses blockchain to facilitate cross-border payments for the private property and to speed up
Ethereum has two types of accounts: a user account, and a smart contract account. A user account enables you to transfer and receive ether, whereas a smart contract account lets you create and participate in smart contracts. Both simple user transactions and smart contracts are recorded and stored
In the case of outstaffing, developers work as an extension of an in-house team. This kind of cooperation is established when the client lacks resources for scaling the product, building up some new functionality, new components of the existing software. In addition, the technical decisions are
It’s worth noting that digital transformation is not about using separate technologies to fix certain problems. It’s about building an interconnected, integrated system, targeting many areas and leveraging a set of digital opportunities which are the best fit for your company. And this is not
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• May 18, 2018 Nowadays, many companies choose to hire offshore ASP.NET developers for their projects since outsourcing gives access to the worldwide pool of IT experts. There are several prominent IT outsourcing destinations in the world with lots of engineers, quality services and dynamic development of the IT market. One of them –
• September 27, 2017 About the Guide In today’s era of digitization and rapidly changing business climate, few decisions are as critical to the success of an organization as selecting a trustworthy IT vendor. In our guide, we present a comprehensive overview of the IT market dynamics in the Eastern Europe – one of the most vibrant
Insurtech and insurance companies that decide to outsource software development often have similar reasons for this. For some of them, cost reduction is the primary motive, others are driven by the lack of resources and absence of the necessary tech expertise. They all, however, need to transform their businesses, adopt innovations, become more
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
While most usability studies should rely more on behavior, methods that use self-reported information can still be quite useful to designers. For example, card sorting provides insights about users' mental model of an information space, and can help determine the best information architecture for your product, application, or
Customization vs. Personalization in the User Experience
Personalization and customization should enhance an already good experience, rather than try to fix a poor one. They should be used thoughtfully, with a clear purpose. Consider that both customization and personalization require work and maintenance over time. Personalization requires regular reviews to make sure the right content is going to the
Mobile: Native Apps, Web Apps, and Hybrid Apps
Last but not least, if one of your priorities is providing a user experience that is consistent with the operating system and with the majority of the other apps available on that platform, then native apps are the way to go. That doesn’t mean that you cannot provide a good mobile user experience with a web app or a hybrid app — it just means
A Comprehensive Guide to Top Blockchain Platforms
Blockchain has been picking up the pace since its inception in the year 2009 by a pseudo group named as Santoshi Nakamoto. Nakamoto has released a whitepaper named as Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system which never clearly mentioned about Blockchain as a technology, but is a great read, nonetheless. The paper discusses the transition of
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Decentralized P2P Lending Services vs Networks
But even when some of these lending services work with several different crypto-assets, their variety is often limited to a couple of the most popular ones. Also, most of the services are trying to tie their users to their native token – that contributes to the exclusiveness of these systems, rather than to their openness. So, in these
Blockchain – A Platform for IoT Solutions
As you heard many times before, blockchain technology is going to change the whole IoT industry. What you have not heard is how this is going to happen. Here is the answer to three questions and how blockchain is a platform for IoT solutions. What is a blockchain? Which blockchain is a better choice for IoT solutions? How to design IoT based
Net Promoter Score: What a Customer-Relations Metric Can Tell You About Your User Experience
While other satisfaction metrics also suffer from the disadvantages mentioned above, NPS has another major problem: its calculation method ignores a lot of the information provided by the ratings by grouping them into three bins (promoters, passives, and detractors) and then ignoring the passives. As a result, researchers must drastically increase
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 visualizations (commonly referred to as mappings). Mappings
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, there is no cash involved, and they can even pick
Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
Learn more is the new Click here. Some of its popularity is likely due to a misunderstanding about how people read online. Mailchimp might justify using a vague link (Learn more) because it follows a very specific and well-written tagline (Make your life easier with automation). However, Mailchimp’s prospective subscribers aren’t likely to
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UX Responsibilities in Scrum Ceremonies
Writing screeners and recruiting users can often take a long time, so the more systematically you approach your recruiting, the easier it will be to run studies when you need usability data. Recruiting takes planning and you want to avoid having it be the bottleneck in the process. Maintain a list of potential users, adding to it wherever
UX Research Cheat Sheet
When deciding where to start or what to focus on first, use some of these top UX methods. Some methods may be more appropriate than others, depending on time constraints, system maturity, type of product or service, and the current top concerns. It’s a good idea to use different or alternating methods each product cycle because they are aimed at
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
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
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
The Sketch Test: Test and Improve Your UX Deliverables and Other Documents
A dendrogram is a type of data visualization produced by card sorting (a popular information-architecture research method). It shows all the main terms presented to users along the left-hand side, and the tree-like structure on the right half of the document shows the percentage of participants that grouped each particular set of items together
Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners
Almost 40% of participants felt strongly that journey maps must be created as a team and continued to be shared and developed with many people in order to be successful. In the words of one respondent, journey maps are successful “ when everyone from top to bottom, from product to sales via marketing, contributes and therefore feels involved
Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants
When we asked 1,015 UX professionals for their career advice and experience, one respondent claimed to have learned everything about UX from playing Dungeons and Dragons. Although such experience is sure to be good, I think you can learn even more about UX from waiting tables in a restaurant. You probably won't learn literally everything you need
Evaluating Popular Web Browsers in Terms of Security and Privacy
Google Chrome does have a usual pop-up blocker that sends “Do Not Track” request to the website and third-party that sends the content, but one cannot ignore that Google knows a lot about you. Google chrome contributes so much in telling about you to the company and then monetizes that information to serve you with ads. A prominent example is
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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
The 3 Biggest Threats Healthcare Data Security is Facing Right Now
The supply chain is no longer a stranger to cyber threats. As the healthcare industry heavily relies on cloud-based systems, third-party service providers, and vendors in the supply chain. The organizations also realize the risk of supply chain attacks. Hackers can compromise third party goods and services to steal private data, install malicious
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2020 Holiday Gift Guide
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The August WiFi Smart Lock is priced at $249.99 and delivers the latest in smart home security. With this deadbolt door lock, you can remotely lock or unlock the door and check door status. You will also be able to grant virtual guest keys and monitor who comes and goes from your home. It integrates with many voice assistants. Plus, it installs by
Can technology stop terrorist vehicle ramming attacks?
EU Regulation No. 347/2012 specifies the technical requirements and test procedures for advanced emergency braking systems (AEBS) that detect the possibility of a collision with a preceding vehicle, warn the driver by a combination of optical, acoustic or haptic signals and, if the driver takes no action, automatically apply the vehicle’s
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
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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
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A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
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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
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
TV Meets the Web
Online TV program listings are one example of content that would seem optimal for WebTV users. It would also be quite useful to have hyperlinks to detailed information about each show: which actor is playing this role? what are the statistics for this baseball player? The point being that the system should know what program the user was watching
Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design
Links that don't behave as expected undermine users' understanding of their own system. A link should be a simple hypertext reference that replaces the current page with new content. Users hate unwarranted pop-up windows. When they want the destination to appear in a new page, they can use their browser's "open in new window" command — assuming
Do Government Agencies and Non-Profits Get ROI From Usability?
It therefore costs $38,000 to identify the 34 usability problems that will be fixed, or $1,118 per problem. The cost of an actual fix might be much more, but in our example, the cost is modest because all that's required is a bullet point rewrite. That is, the new text must be written, approved, and placed on the site. Let's say that all of this
WP Engine Named the #4 Best Place to Work in Texas
Texas’ economy is the second largest in the United States, a measure of success that’s only expected to continue; Texas ranks first for its growth prospects due to impressive growth forecasts and competitive employment rates across the state. To tap into this statewide success, however, Texas-based companies still need to provide a fulfilling
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International Study by WP Engine Reveals Enterprise Investment Lags Today's Mobile-First Consumer
When it comes to providing world-class digital experiences, less than a third of respondents (29 percent) thought their customers would rate their digital experience as superior. On mobile, a poor design or bad user experience is even more pronounced. With three billion smartphone users in the world, the consequences of not providing a superior
WP Engine Participates in the Day of Understanding
Diversity has long been an important topic for WP Engine. CEO Heather Brunner often says “diversity attracts diversity.” This means that as a company naturally attracts and retains diverse talent, that diversity is sustained from the inside by employee referrals. Ultimately, the customer values and respects that the team they are