Tasktop

OCTOBER 23, 2020

China, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and beyond), finding a topic that invites input from everyone isn’t easy. Earlier in 2020, one of Tasktop’s company’s objectives lists was “diversity”. While older team members may be used to such moments, others may not be as comfortable. Finding an ice-breaker can be tricky too.

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Tuning Engineering Programming Infrastructure 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

photo taken by Adrian in Monterey County, California This year at Map Camp , I was happy to have my Amazon Sustainability team sponsor the Sustainability track, sharing the support with Liam Maxwell of AWS UK Public Sector, and to share the online stage with two awesome speakers, the famous economist Carlota Perez?—?author

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Energy Government Innovation AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my research, I was looking into sites found in the December 2020 mobile HTTPArchive , and it wasn’t difficult to spot a good number of sites loading huge video files by default, both on mobile and on desktop. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos.

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

Picture taken by Adrian March 17, 2020 A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. It also shows why the UK and USA response of limited testing means that the pandemic is literally “out of control” in those countries. Memorial at Hawaiian native burial ground, Kapalua, Maui.

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Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In the US and the UK, Comscore’s Global State of Mobile 2020 report discovered in August 2020, that mobile usage accounted to 79% and 81% of total digital minutes respectively. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, this is the full extent of the segmentation that they make; slow experiences in, say, Australia, will negatively impact search results in, say, the UK.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2020

Select “Depart Date” as 1 Mar 2020. Select “Return Date” as 7 Mar 2020. Select “To Destination” as “LD-UK”. Select “Depart Date” as 31 Mar 2020. Select “Depart Date” as 1 Mar 2020. Select “Return Date” as 7 Mar 2020. Test Case Creation: Test Case-1: 1. Go to [link]. Select “Multi-city”. Click on Search.

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Testing Tools Testing Open Source Java 60

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Technically, Elena joined us at the very end of 2020, but since this marks the end of her first full year at SpeedCurve, I wanted to include her here. Chris Boakes explains how, within a couple of months, the leading UK news website managed to improve their 75th percentile CLS by 250% from 0.25 Here are some of the highlights.

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Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

2020-04-13T10:00:00+00:00. 2020-04-13T12:35:21+00:00. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Andrew Clarke. text-transform: uppercase; }.

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Design Media C++ Technology 116

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The survey conducted among 110 writing professionals in May 2020 gives interesting insights into the role of the UX Writer in companies around the world. First, he opened 12 real bank accounts in the UK, and logged everything. The Food And User Experience Combination. What do food and UX have in common? Quite a lot actually!

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Alex Russell @slightlylate Software moves to the web (when not prevented by poor browsers and/or unconscionable policy) because it's a better version of computing: kwokchain.com/2020/06/19/why-figma-wins/ It has been really surprising to me how few frontend folks are investing deeply in sync & collaboration tech.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

2020-03-02T13:00:00+00:00. 2020-03-02T13:36:53+00:00. During the Second World War, burning oil to produce thick smoke prevented all but a few German bombs, but when I was in my teens, a different toxic cloud, Thatcherism, hung over Corby as it did many industrial and manufacturing centres across the UK. Andrew Clarke.

Design 101

Design Media Testing Entertainment 101