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Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

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That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. Maybe you worked in partnership with the engineering lead on X to increase the efficiency of Y — I’d love to hear more about this during an interview.

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Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce

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Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Let’s Dive Into Cypress For End-to-End Testing

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In order to achieve this efficiently, you might be wondering what and how much you need to test. You might find one possible answer in a metaphor: The test automation pyramid , first introduced by Mike Cohn and further specified by Martin Fowler, shows how to make testing efficient. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine.

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Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1)

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In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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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. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Thomas Bohm.

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The Fight For The Main Thread

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Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT).

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From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz

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Data viz solutions are consistent with its purpose; a good balance between efficiency and complexity; Color palette. I’d wager, though, that the people qualified to use this kind of software actually benefit from this complexity — it allows them to work efficiently. Balancing Between The Complexity And Efficiency.

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