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Modern Tribe is hiring! ✨ Check out our current open roles — Content Marketing Specialist & Project Manager: https://tri.be/careers/

Careers | Modern Tribe Grow your career on a fully remote, globally distributed team of strategists, project managers, designers, and engineers.

Need help conducting stakeholder interviews for a digital project? Senior strategist Nick Ioannou walks you through the interview process Modern Tribe has honed over our two decades launching enterprise websites: https://tri.be/blog/how-to-run-successful-stakeholder-interviews

How to Run Successful Stakeholder Interviews | Modern Tribe At Modern Tribe, we emphasize understanding our clients’ needs to deliver successful enterprise WordPress products. Our stakeholder interview process, honed over nearly two decades launching digital projects across diverse sectors, is integral to our discovery phase, and ensuring that what we buil...

It's ! To mark the occasion, we're excited to share this presentation our director of engineering, Chris Kindred, debuted at : "Accessibility Isn’t Just for Developers and Designers." https://ow.ly/6mt050Q5EKT

Video: Accessibility Isn't Just for Developers and Designers | Modern Tribe It's World Usability Day—to show our support for inclusion through user experience, we're sharing this presentation our director of engineering debuted at HighEdWeb 2023. In it, you'll learn the importance of web accessibility and how to make it a habit.

Want to unlock data-backed decision-making for your digital product? In this blog post, senior strategist Kay Lima explains the advantages of user testing and why it's a necessity for modern web teams: https://tri.be/blog/unlocking-potential-the-impact-of-user-testing

Unlocking Potential: The Impact of User Testing | Modern Tribe With growing digital competition, it's crucial to create web experiences that connect with audiences. That's where user testing comes in. Learn the advantages of user testing for your products and why it should be at the top of the list for your digital strategy.

Heading to next week? Catch our director of engineering Chris Kindred's session on Tuesday, 10/10 at 8:30am ET!

He'll discuss the business case for web , and why it's not just for developers and designers: https://events.highedweb.org/heweb23/session/1435962/accessibility-isn't-just-for-developers-and-designers

Session: Accessibility isn't just for developers and designers - HighEdWeb 2023 Annual Conference I will discuss my experience with my daughter being born with a heart condition, life-flighted to a hospital five hours away and me trying to figure out how to get to her as quickly as possible. I was emotional, stressed and tired. With all that going on, I had to figure out how to get to her by boo...

We're thrilled to be at WordCamp US this week—looking forward to learning from & hanging with the WordPress community!

Pictured L-R: creative director Sarah Gless, strategy principal Paul Yuen, & director of engineering Chris Kindred.

Considering an accessibility overlay for your website? Modern Tribe QA engineer Tyla Taylor explains why you should avoid this kind of automated solution: https://ow.ly/Kikg50P81hl

Why Sites Should NOT Use Accessibility Overlays Because overlays are automated, third-party solutions to fix web accessibility issues, they don't fix underlying source code or factor in subjective aspects of manual accessibility testing.

Our director of business development Mike Klanac gathered feedback from the Tribe team on how will affect various disciplines in the next 5 years, and then asked to critique their responses. Check out the results on our blog:

Predicting how AI could affect various WordPress Disciplines | Modern Tribe I think it’s safe to say the rise of ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has been the biggest tech story of the year so far.  In preparation for a panel our illustrious founder Shane Pearlman will be facilitating at WordCamp Europe, I took the chance to gather feedback fro...

Heading to WordCamp Europe this week? Catch Modern Tribe founder Shane Pearlman at the "AI in WordPress" panel June 9th to learn about use cases of AI in and how you can leverage them.

AI in WordPress Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enormous potential as an accelerator. Driving productivity, creating better user experiences, innovating new products, streamline support and many of the operationa…

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day ( ), a worldwide event shining a light on digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities.

Here's a blog post about how our team endeavors to make accessibility a habit on web projects:

Making Accessibility a Habit Build accessible websites by making accessibility best practices a habit. Explore some of the concepts used at Modern Tribe to support accessibility.

Explore how to shift your thinking and break down myths around accessible design in this blog post from our creative director Sarah Gless: http://ow.ly/U8jL50Oea5r

Myths About Accessibility for Designers | Modern Tribe One in four people in the United States (cdc.gov) and about one in six worldwide (who.int) have a disability. Pause on those statistics for a minute, and imagine a quarter of your audience not being able to access your brand experiences. Accessibility should be a universal value across an organizati...

Need to get multiple stakeholders with differing feature priorities aligned on a digital project? Consider the "buy a feature" prioritization exercise: http://ow.ly/vh2R50NCBcp

Prioritization Exercise: Buy a Feature | Modern Tribe On digital projects, the "buy a feature" prioritization exercise helps align multiple stakeholders with differing feature priorities.

Big congrats to our client Little League — they're nominated for a Webby Award in the Sports category! ⚾ 🏆 http://ow.ly/e1BN50NFatG

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

Curious about accessibility in ?

Modern Tribe's Sarah Gless, Chris Kindred, and Mike Klanac recently joined Post Status for a discussion about integrating accessibility into each aspect of development: http://ow.ly/mC6w50NrG0a

Post Status Live – The Right Approach to WordPress Accessibility If you’re a leader, a developer, or a designer about to start a major website project, this webinar will help you navigate the important topic of accessibility. Cory Miller is joined by the team at Modern Tribe - Chris Kindred, Director of Backend Development, Sarah Gless, Creative Director, and M...

Curious about the new visual editor? Our director of frontend engineering David Ellenwood breaks down why the block editor is here to stay, and how it serves an endless number of publishing purposes: http://ow.ly/5cMn50Nbhv3

WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor: The Power of Visual Editing Embrace the power and flexibility that WordPress’s new visual editor provides publishers—it’s time to move beyond the textbox and embrace the canvas.

Working remotely with people around the world for over 15 years, we've learned a lot about communicating across disciplines, time zones and cultures. Download our Communication Charter template to help your team develop standards and expectations for effective remote communication:

Communication Charters | Modern Tribe Download our Communication Charter template to help your remote team develop standards and expectations for communicating across disciplines, time zones and cultures.

Website users expect to find the info they’re looking for fast. 🧐 So we suggest keeping a few key principles in mind when designing a site’s nav.

Designing Navigation for Content-Heavy Sites | Modern Tribe Website users expect to find the info they’re looking for fast. When designing navigation, we suggest keeping a few key principles in mind.

Customers require a seamless interaction with your brand, yet organizational complexity often gets in the way. But there's a remedy! Our president, Shane, breaks down how to align your organization and technology with the customer journey. 📝

Align Your Organization & Technology with the User Journey | Modern Tribe Learn how to align your organization and technology with the user journey to give customers a seamless interaction with your brand.

All month long, Córdoba is celebrating with free ukulele tutorials, challenges, and giveaways. Fun, right?

To learn how we helped the company better showcase their awesome ukuleles and guitars 🎸, check out our case study.

Córdoba by Modern Tribe | A Project Profile A highly extensible ecommerce platform beautifully showcases Córdoba’s premium guitars and ukuleles, and deftly supports their online sales efforts.

We’re really proud of our work with Inquest, a forum for ideas to end mass incarceration. To see how we landed on a timeless visual language that serves the written word more than images, check out our case study.

Inquest by Modern Tribe | A Case Study Digital publication Inquest allows diverse thinkers and doers to share ideas for ending mass incarceration.

We think this resource for language around evolving social, cultural, and identity-related issues is worthy of a 🔖:

Language, Please: Style Guide & Resources for journalists and storytellers Language, Please, is a free, living resource available to all journalists and storytellers seeking to thoughtfully cover evolving social, cultural, and identity-related topics.

Working with an agency to bring your next big thing to life? Awesome. 😁 Six simple questions will help you get clear on which engagement model is right for your project.

Choosing the Right Engagement Model for Your Project | Modern Tribe During the project planning phase, choosing the right engagement model is crucial, as it can significantly affect how your project plays out.

Our designer Špela is the undisputed champion of finding great stock photos. 🏆 So we asked her to share some pro tips, and she was happy to oblige. http://m.tri.be/1aq2

How To Choose Stock Photos That Don’t Suck | Modern Tribe Our senior designer Špela tells you how to choose stock photos that don’t suck and namechecks the best stock photo sites to use for your next project.