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In some instances, there may well be good reason to use personalization to remove access to certain information. Examples include restricting a minor’s access to particular content or limiting employee access to a site section intended for employees in other areas of the world. An employee in South Africa may not need access to Human Resources

Next, determine the specific experience to map. This could be an existing journey, where mapping will uncover positive and negative moments within that current experience, or a “to-be” experience, where the mapper is designing a journey for a product or service that doesn’t exist yet. Make sure to clarify the user’s goal during this

You might be wondering, "if proximity is such a problem, then why not place the labels inside the text fields?". Don't be tempted. When you place the labels inside the text field as filler text, the label disappears when users input their text and they must remember it as they fill in the field. This especially causes an issue if users use the Tab

Financial services firm JP Morgan and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation are testing out blockchains technologies to improve the process of transferring the ownership of stocks and bonds. Whereas investors can buy and sell stocks near-instantly using existing market technologies, the actual transfer of ownership can take days

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

Crowdfunding platforms must not only ensure that you’re funded by investors but also ascertains that they are accredited. Accredited investors are a special class of investors who are able to access investments that regular investors can not. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits companies and private funds who sell assets to

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 overshadowed the effects of logo position: this main image

This is what level-2 people can do: “At this level, tasks typically require the use of both generic and more specific technology applications. For instance, the respondent may have to make use of a novel online form. Some navigation across pages and applications is required to solve the problem. The use of tools (e.g. a sort function) can

In this article, we’re not going to talk about how to convert and manipulate users with these popups. We’re going to discuss how to use exit-intent popups as a tool for improving the customer experience. The main idea is to increase the perceived value of the exit-intent popup and ensure that users get a benefit from the interaction that keeps

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

Supplement your findings and recommendations with video clips showing how users actually perform that task. Not only will your findings be more compelling, but you’ll also be building general empathy towards your audience. Make sure you show a variety of people in your videos (it shouldn’t be hard if you followed our first guideline and

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

With growing amounts of computational power, machine learning and deep learning are increasingly making their way into numerous sectors. They are widely used for recognizing objects, translating speech in real-time, determining potential outcomes, understanding consumer habits, making personalized recommendations, and a lot more. In fact, consumer

When banks and financial incumbents build a platform, they already have a customer base and know what loads they should expect. Whereas, all fintechs are born as tech startups and start small. Some of them die off. However, those ones that managed to survive, start growing, maturing, and scaling up. At least, they attempt to.That’s when software

Hadoop developers are leading the way for a significant amount of big data solutions, which makes them a valued asset on the global tech market. The majority of Hadoop engineers are involved in large-scale projects where they are responsible for planning and designing next-generation big-data systems or developing complex Hadoop applications. This

Resist the impulse to make a snap judgment. Acting quickly is satisfying, but taking the time to explicitly think through the context yields more accurate and meaningful decision frames. In our example, consider the amount of time spent planning and running the usability study (with 20 users, this likely took more than the 40 hours spent on many

Since UX work takes place in such widely differing environments, the types of deliverables vary hugely, from formal reports and presentations, all the way to whiteboard sketches that only get documented when someone takes pictures with a smartphones and emails them to the team. We communicate so many different things that we often need to use

With the homepage as navigation hub, prime real estate will be wasted for chrome and all navigation will have to go through the homepage. While these two may seem as major disadvantages (and they are for most types of sites or apps), they can be less of a problem for those sites and apps used not for browsing and consuming content, but for

Consider something as seemingly innocuous as your printers. These can be easily hijacked and sent print jobs, such as when a hacker named “Weev” was able to access public computers nationwide and print anti-Semitic literature. Kevin Pickhardt, CEO of enterprise print solutions provider Pharos Systems International, explains this danger

With higher value and higher consequence devices, like those found in an automobile, automakers will start to pay closer attention to security in a number of ways, from encrypting and securing control planes like CANbus–which previously were assumed to be secure via obscurity–as well as wider use of OTA updates. Lower value

Hurricane Harvey was a Category four storm that hit Texas on August 25, 2017. It caused billions in lost data damage to the residents of Texas. The total loss suffered was more than any other natural disaster in U.S. history except Hurricane Katrina. How Data Recovery Impacts Businesses Besides such disasters, software and hardware failure and

Widget provider JS-Kit has released their latest widget this morning, Score. Score adds a thumbs up/thumbs down-style ratings widget to any page content, and then aggregates the data across the entire web site into an info box that can highlight a site’s top content. It can also integrate with JS-Kit’s Navigator offering, which pulls

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

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

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

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

Meural, the digital art platform we love and have in our office displaying beautiful art was just acquired by NETGEAR. This was just announced at NETGEAR’s Analyst Day. Meural started in 2014 by Jerry Hu and Vladimir Vukicevic. They has since raised $9.4 million over four rounds of funding from NETGEAR, Corigin Ventures, Bolt, Bryan

The balance between looks and speed was resolved by a design that utilizes plain-and-fast HTML (prettied up with style sheets) to define the basic features of the page. Visual enhancements like the Sun logo and other graphic elements will fill in more slowly the first time a user visits but will appear immediately if they are cached on the user's

Any text entry field that requires users to type information in a specific way rather than allow the natural variations that humans prefer can be irritating. Many sites, for example, force users to enter credit card numbers as 1234567890123456, rather than letting them put spaces between groups of four digits, which significantly reduces the risk

If you are using a carousel in the hope that people will see a variety of content, know that some people will only see the first frame or none at all. So ensure that important content is also placed mindfully in the IA and on another page of your site. Consider using a static carousel or hero image instead of a rotating one. And in any

In addition to all of the above, the Genesis Framework will be further upgraded for Gutenberg with the release of version 2.8 in Q1 2019. 2.8 will include built-in features that allow you to easily and efficiently style and control Gutenberg blocks as well as auto-load demo content, which can arm Genesis themes with content blocks and make them

What is a child theme? A child theme works in combination with the parent theme. With regards to Genesis, child themes serve as a sort of skin that can change the way a theme looks, while relying on the functionality of its parent theme (in this case, Genesis). Child themes offer users the added flexibility to customize and tweak according to

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