The other factor in target-acquisition time is the target size: the larger the button, the faster it will be reached. Yet, with version 9, Tesla decided to make its targets smaller (presumably in order to fit more options in the visible menu bar — 7 in version 8 compared with 10 or 11 in version
Confirmation dialogs, like the one in Super Smash Bros. on Wii Switch, prevent users from accidental destruction. This confirmation is particularly important for irreversible actions. Before leaving an in-progress game, Super Smash Bros. prompts users to confirm that they want to leave the game and
In the Windows Snipping Tool application, choosing an option from the split button’s menu (such as Window Snip) becomes the new default option, and clicking New would thereafter trigger a Window Snip (until the user chooses a different option from the menu). It is worth noting that in this
One big problem with failing to define your users occurs when you evaluate the design. If you plan a research study with no restrictions on who can participate, you could easily end up with all your participants being quite similar to each other. This is no problem if your system is only intended
As a new parent, I increasingly find myself using my smartphone as my primary computer. Jotting down a note, selecting next week’s meal delivery kits, shopping online, and tracking my child’s eating and sleeping patterns all need to happen one-handed, quickly, while holding this tiny new human
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For years, users had been exposed to traditional signifiers of clickability, such as blue, underlined links and 3D effects on buttons. As design trends shift and users are exposed to new patterns, the average user’s ability to intuitively identify linked elements has evolved. But just because users are better at detecting linked elements
Login walls require a significant interaction cost: users must remember their credentials (if they have an account) or take the time to create a new account. Therefore, sites should use them only if users will benefit significantly from the presence of these walls. Applications that are highly personal (such as email or banking apps) are justified
Something was gnawing at me as I observed our last several rounds of international usability studies. Many of the websites we tested around the world had uncommonly low quality — not unlike what we saw in the United States during the 1990s. Reflecting on this observation, I realized that the worst sites were usually not the truly local sites
Indicators, Validations, and Notifications: Pick the Correct Communication Option
Passive notifications are typically not urgent and should be less intrusive. A typical implementation of a passive notification may be a badge icon or a small nonmodal popover in a corner of a screen. Passive notifications can easily be missed, since they require no user action. When the information provided by the notification is key to the
Tabs, Used Right
If you follow the design guidelines in this article, users will know how to use your tabs without further exploration or error-prone guessing. This again means that they can devote all their time and brainpower to understanding the content and features that you’re making available under these tabs. Tabs have no value in themselves, but they
The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)
As an extreme example, the old user interface to the Internet had great aesthetic integrity, with one "ls" listing in ftp looking pretty much like any other, and with all needed information (modification date, size, and file type as indicated by the extension) shown in a severely minimalist manner. Even so, the wild and woolly extremes of Web
Blockchain – Impending Revolution in Global Stock Trading?
What started out as a ledger for Bitcoin transactions, turned out to have so much more potential. It has become clear that blockchain technology has many promising applications. It’s immutable and decentralized nature makes it appealing to many industries. It’s apparent that blockchain is one of the most revolutionary inventions of the
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3 Reasons Decentralization is the Future of Currency
That makes decentralized currencies the most democratic form of money ever created. Because it’s not the currency of any country, no government decision can set its price. Decentralized currencies are entirely in the control of the people who use it. The more people who use Bitcoin to make transactions, the more demand there will be, and the
Bringing a More Secure and Efficient Land Registry with Blockchain
Blockchain will provide protection globally to the land management systems. With the help of blockchain, fraud, intimidation, bribery, and acquiring or stealing land will stop in land acquisition. Blockchain will prove beneficial in most regions globally. In places like Brazil, India, and even in the UK and elsewhere — secure and efficient
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 become the key elements in representing all brands
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Rather than hiding irrelevant actions, disable them so that users won’t have to try to find where menu items disappeared, nor will they have to determine how to get the system back in the proper context to reveal a specific command. Also, make sure that you include all options (instead of just one) in a family of related commands. For example
Banner Blindness Revisited: Users Dodge Ads on Mobile and Desktop
The hot-potato behavior is a defense mechanism to avoid wasting time and fixations on irrelevant elements. It’s also an example of the availability bias: based on one or a few examples, web users assume that the same type of content will always appear in that same location on other pages. But, this assumption is not always right. For example
Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases
In the United States, paying with credit card is so commonplace that it’s easy to take it for granted. Around the world, however, there are different social, financial, and convenience factors that contribute to people’s payment preferences. It’s a common refrain in our line of work: UX without users is not UX. If you want to grow your
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UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
Another trend seen in this latest research is an increased amount of product information on product listing pages. As long as the information is well-curated and uncluttered, this trend allows users to make informed decisions about products without visiting each detail page. Especially on mobile browsers, where every click counts if the internet
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
In this step, the team moves through the stickies on the board collaboratively and clusters similar notes that belong to the same quadrant. Name your clusters with themes that represent each group (for example, “validation from others” or “research”). Repeat themes in each quadrant if necessary. The activity of clustering facilitates
Introducing Revolution Pro, the First Block-Based Genesis Theme
It’s been more than two months since the release of WordPress 5.0, and as developers and content creators have been busy familiarizing themselves with new features like the block-based Gutenberg editor, we’ve been hard at work building new themes that incorporate the functionality and flexibility this latest version of WordPress has to offer
StudioPress Theme Spotlight: New Breakthrough Pro
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 was built with today’s creative, digital agency
Genesis Framework and StudioPress Themes Now Available for WP Engine Customers .
It’s official! Beginning today, access to the Genesis Framework and 35 premium, WordPress StudioPress Themes are included in your plan for free when you sign up for a WP Engine account. Both the themes and theme framework, which WP Engine began adding to its platform after acquiring StudioPress in June, are also available to existing customers
The Rise of Data Science in Aviation: How to Unlock Hidden Value
We’ve built a pipeline: from the moment when the logs come from the equipment to the moment when they are completely analyzed, processed, and stored in the data warehouse. Our Data engineers are working on ensuring longevity of the equipment. They have improved the system of timely replacing devices and reducing the number of not-fault-founds
29 facts about outsourced software engineering in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is becoming an increasingly popular destination for outsourced software engineering. While Western Europe is facing the shortage of tech experts, Eastern European tech talent pool is soaring. This region boasts its high level of technical education and qualified software developers. Also, Eastern European countries are culturally
How to Create Template Documents in OpenText Content Server
Interactive Correspondence for Content Server can be used to generate template-based documents from Content Server for virtually any use case or industry. They include generation of invoices, contracts, offers, product fact sheets, HR documents, and more. It leverages templates created in Extream’s ReTouch and Workshop. Relevant metadata such as
Why Zen Mode Isn’t the Answer to Everything
Unfortunately, software is still imperfect at guessing user intent, and will probably stay so for a long time. Most user actions are ambiguous: grabbing the mouse can mean that the user is ready to start formatting, or that she has discovered a typo in the preceding paragraph and wants to move the cursor there to fix it. An interface that covers
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When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
The distinction here is an important one, and goes well beyond the narrow view of qualitative as “open ended” as in an open-ended survey question. Rather, studies that are qualitative in nature generate data about behaviors or attitudes based on observing them directly, whereas in quantitative studies, the data about the behavior or attitudes
Accordions for Complex Website Content on Desktops
Another situation in which accordions are helpful is when the information is restricted to very small spaces, such as on mobile devices. On small screens people often stop scrolling before reaching the end of an extremely long page. If the page has several loosely related pieces of information, users often cannot guess if the information in which
Web Usability | An Insider’s 11 Take-Aways from Companies Winning Industrial (IIoT) Cybersecurity
An Insider’s 11 Take-Aways from Companies Winning Industrial (IIoT) Cybersecurity
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Even the biggest and best digital companies in the world find malicious or unexplained code in their environments—sometimes threats that have been lying dormant for years. Smart IIoT startups expect that their solutions will be subject to the same types of malicious and/or intelligence gathering threats as well. That doesn’t mean they don’t
Is more IoT driving more cyber attacks?
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IoT security attacks caused because of the Internet will not only impact normal people’s life, but also produce more serious problems to large-scale enterprises. Based on the report titled Toward New Possibilities in Threat Management from Price Waterhouse Coopers in 2017, the number of cyber attacks in the East Asia region has rapidly
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
Why China’s own ‘Bay Area’ matters now for your company
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It’s no secret that China has the largest consumer market in the world with almost 1.4 billion people and rising. What some may not be aware of is that China will present what will be the greatest middle-class growth bump of any country since the United States beginning in the early 1950s. In fact, by 2022 over 76 percent of China’s
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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 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
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
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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
How to Manage Conflict at Work
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Hearing someone vent and complain can be the hardest because your opponent may say things that you think are unfair or wrong. However, you should be willing to listen because you need to hear their perspective. Listen carefully and you’ll find you can learn some amazing things. You’ll often find something valuable on which you and the
Fortune Names WP Engine a Best Place to Work in 2018 .
At WP Engine, we believe our people are the core of every success, award, milestone and every achievement. That’s because employees who truly feel empowered and validated by their workplace are energized to delight and inspire the customer in every interaction. When new employees walk through the door on the first day, they’re encouraged to be
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StudioPress Theme Spotlight: New Breakthrough Pro
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 was built with today’s creative, digital agency
StudioPress Theme Spotlight: New Breakthrough Pro
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 was built with today’s creative, digital agency