Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Large preview ).

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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. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

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. Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Measurement: Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Did you miss out on it?

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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

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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release. This is readily available in PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console, not to mention DebugBear. That’s what this article is all about.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. But does it need to be available immediately ? Meh, untrue.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Yes, we’ve changed how we defined the user experience of the page load to look at the loading speed of the most relevant content , but it’s basically reusing the old techniques of ensuring that the content loads as quickly as possible. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. This approach, however, is far from perfect as there is a delay between the page’s first render and the wildcard being available. The live version is available at [link] and the source code can be found at [link]. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. When investigating the impact on your site look at all available metrics for any improvement.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. This is untrue, she says. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet. .

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5 Whilst I believe Scrapbook handles this update well, it’s an important consideration when designing your user’s experience. The source of our example is available here.).

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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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Why is that?

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out. One of the biggest challenges of responsive web design is creating clean markup. Downlink , which represents the user’s maximum download speed. Why Use Client Hints? Finally, the q=0.8

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Base your budget on user research and design principles, such as Better performance through better design. In the chart below, we can see why Smashing Magazine is so much faster - they're simply delivering a lot less JavaScript. Speed Index. All of these metrics are available in SpeedCurve.

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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. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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

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

APRIL 28, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). Designed by Espen Brunborg and Nadia Snopek. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Addy is the author of the book Learning JavaScript Design Patterns.

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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. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. More after jump! The Architecture Behind Partytown.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Addy is the author of the book Learning JavaScript Design Patterns. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Responsive Images. +. Progressive Rendering Techniques. +.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Some companies may insert a design/research spike just before the epic kicks off but it always feels reactionary and ends up being a hack shortcut. If you speed up, you’ll likely through off your car’s alignment and loosen up some other critical parts. Your pit crew should be available for quick, pointed input. Assemble A Crew.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js In a traditional app where we have signup, logins, or product page we want to have consistent behavior and design. UI kit built upon material design. Development Process. Development Process. Uma Victor. 2021-07-08T11:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

At the intersection of the two is website speed. It should come as no surprise that images cause a lot of the problems websites have with speed. And while you could always just trim the fat and build more minimally designed and content-centric sites, why compromise? Images are a powerful force on the web. Compress Images.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. A few other options are available for an Express app. Graph-based task execution. application) should execute each task.

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