Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. Responsive Images. +. Reviews and Testimonials. “An

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Twitter’s Image Pipeline (Case Study). +. This case study focuses on the different steps that Twitter has taken to load images faster while ensuring they are as impactful as intended. Designed by Espen Brunborg and Nadia Snopek.

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We get a huge number of excellent case studies at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference, which we like because it gives attendees insight into real-world problems and solutions; this one is an outstanding example. This talk covers the pros and cons, along with some best practices and warnings.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Designing The Perfect Navigation. UX, Design.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Here’s how we are approaching it.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

A while back, our friends at Shopify published this great case study , showing how they optimized one of their newer themes from the ground up – and how they worked to keep it fast. Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. Read: Performance culture tips and best practices.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

In this post, I'm going to share some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture. Case studies are an awesome way to do this, which is why I've been helping curate WPOstats , a vendor-neutral directory of performance case studies. Score some easy wins.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In a classic 1983 paper , cognitive psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge drew attention to a curious irony: so-called “automated” systems were, in practice, usually attended by one or more human operators. Bainbridge believed that automation designers were in denial about this, however. RPA Don’ts.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Best practices on Building a Big Data Analytics Solution – Michael Rys. Azure Cosmos DB: design patterns and case studies – Andrew Liu. Azure Data Catalog Adoption Patterns and Best Practices – Matthew Roche. SELECT * FROM Azure Cosmos DB – Andrew Liu.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Although landing pages are a common practice in online marketing, we were trying to make the most of it. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Case studies abound. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. Use a static analysis tool or a vulnerability scanner (available from all major vendors such as Qualys , Veracode , or Micro Focus ) to assess how well you are complying with security best practices.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

It is not that most web design agencies are ignorant of other marketing approaches or that any of them are inherently bad. On the contrary, in the second part of his two-part series on getting web design clients , Stephen Roe breaks down the opportunities of these approaches. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. This display was by design. Developers and designers. Developers And Designers. Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page (Case Study) , Adam Silver. Jump to table of contents ?.

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