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Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

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With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. A few recommended readings (a.k.a.

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40+ Best Web Development Blogs of 2018

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It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

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Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-03T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-03T14:03:11+00:00.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

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On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Efficient use of a client’s resources and bandwidth can greatly improve your application’s performance. But lazy loading can only help you delay downloading resources and doesn’t make your resources smaller and more cost-efficient. Prefetching.

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How To Automate Documentation Workflow For Developers

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The header of the table announces TAPP’s values as a company, being efficient, trustworthy, and accessible. When you create a linter, you are setting a benchmark of quality for your documentation. An example style guide from the city bus application TAPP, taken from the book Strategic Writing for UX. Large preview ).

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Changing A Tire On A Moving Car (Or How To Improve Product Roadmaps)

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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. It fundamentally helps you plan ahead to reduce risk and reach the destination in a more efficient and effective way. Maybe you might want to pack a second spare tire.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. A sample output by imaging-heap , a command line tool that measure the efficiency across viewport sizes and device pixel ratios.