Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2). We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-10T08:00:00+00:00. Don’t worry!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Font loading has long been a bugbear of web performance, and there really are no good choices here. The thinking here was that it was better for performance to display the text as quickly as you can , even if it’s in the fallback font, and then to swap the font in when it finally downloads. Barry Pollard. 2021-05-25T09:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca. Minification.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Barry Pollard. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-09T17:34:14+00:00. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

While many developers spend time optimizing other areas of a web page’s performance, reducing the size of images can have a bigger impact on performance than all other areas combined. You might already know that Smashing Magazine has published the book Image Optimization by Addy Osmani, which covers this topic in full detail.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. What about images? It makes more sense to automate this task.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. Listen in as they talk about current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the APM and performance space today. Building a culture of performance.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This is certainly frustrating for a website’s user, but even more so for its owner: in fact, there is a direct correlation between web performance and business revenue which has been corroborated time and again in a plethora of case studies. As developers, optimizing web performance must therefore be an integral part of our value proposition.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Large preview ) I don’t know about you, but it often feels like I’m missing something when measuring page speed performance. Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results.

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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. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-03-19T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-03-19T15:28:04+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. The Google Fonts API does more than just provide the font files to the browser, it also performs a smart check to see how it can deliver the files in the most optimized format. Danny Cooper. 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00. 2019-06-20T10:35:07+00:00. Bold (700).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Before delving into details about code-splitting, let’s quickly remind ourselves what makes JavaScript so impactful on overall performance. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Performance Costs.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. Jack Lenox.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Visit website 3.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. Whenever we export an icon from a design tool, it comes with a specific fill and other color values defined in the design. So, let’s get started! all Property.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

All of these techniques basically involve setting aside the correct amount of space before additional content is loaded — whether that is media or JavaScript-injected content, but there’s a few different options available to web developers to do this. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Code My UI has some excellent code snippets available that you can use to create a skeleton screen for your PWA. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. The performance impact is be measured with PageSpeed Insights. Ideally, the design process should take into account the ways in which clients might wish to share content from social media. Description. JS (uncached).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right?

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Performance budgets are an important tool for ensuring your site is delivering a great user experience. Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Conclusion.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2022

A lot of people even dread the “reset-password” page because, come to think of it, after spending a lot of time trying to guess their passwords — all to no avail — they’re either frustrated or angry as they land on this particular page. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. “ Building The Forms. Final Thoughts.

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