Imagine your WordPress site is blisteringly fast, rounding the internet track like an Indy race car. Then the thwack of a flat tire and the shriek of riding on the rim interrupts your revery.
When your website blows a tire, load delays and error messages drive site visitors out of the stands, leaving you with an empty stadium.
When you’re first learning how to improve your website’s user experience, commonly referred to as UX, there’s a massive amount of information to digest. This is only amplified when you scour the internet for help.
By far the biggest problem for someone just starting out is that a large portion of this information is too complicated to easily digest, especially when you’re looking for simple, actionable steps to improve your website’s UX.
When we think of technology pioneers, we tend to think of men, like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. But there are also countless women whose contributions to computer science and engineering have formed the basis of many of the gadgets and technologies we use today.
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are just a few of the many brilliant women who have forever changed how we use and think about technology.