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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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. Base your budget on user research and design principles, such as Better performance through better design. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. Speed Index.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

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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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine.

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AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. 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. Assemble A Crew.

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Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Subscribe and get “Smart Interface Design Checklists” — a free PDF deck with 150+ questions to ask yourself when designing and building almost anything. More after jump! Your (smashing) email. Once a week.

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Development Benchmarking Code Engineering 119

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. At the bottom of the page, you can check how many kB of resources your client consumes. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

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. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145