Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Chapter 8 covers the issues around imprecision and probability and shows how we need to design systems, interactions, and processes that prevent mistakes — especially avoiding catastrophe when mistaken taps are made. From these resources we can start building a reference library of how to pursue each aspect of the design process.

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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. You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI. Adaptive loading illustration by Google.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We are loading the following resources: Google Fonts Stylesheet. to display the content on the screen.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. First, FID is a measure of the time it takes the page to start processing an interaction or the input delay. It only looks at the delay of the event process. Let’s walk through the process.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts. const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper. Large preview ).

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Without some type of user input guiding our process, we are left being directed by the same high-level stakeholder assumptions we often rally against as being the antithesis to UX: those holding the purse strings have the loudest voice in the room. I believe concept testing is a pivotal part of the up-front UX process. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. This could be as simple as logging the values for these options in a Google Analytics Custom Dimension. And Is It Used? Data Saver.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft conduct more than 10,000 controlled online tests annually each : they know the investment pays off. The eye-tracking market is expected to be worth USD 1.75

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Are you interested in the agile design process? My past few jobs have become smoother application processes because I’ve landed on a formula that makes your life and the recruiter’s life easier, and that formula is being concise. When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words ,” by Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser (Smashing Magazine).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

And we can get that with real-user monitoring (RUM) where a snippet of code on my site collects real data based on from real network conditions coming from real users is sent to a server and parsed for reporting. See the “Prettify Code” option? ?( Real usage data would be better, of course.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. First, the unoptimized code is parsed and transpiled following the rules set in the config.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Credit: Devin Harold.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. This frees up the browser’s main thread to run your own code. It’s maintained by Builder.io

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The deployed app is available for viewing , and the final code is on Github. based cross-platform framework whose motto is : “write code once and simultaneously deploy it as a website, a mobile app and/or an Electron app”. assets/ # dynamic assets (processed by Webpack) ? ??? boot/ # boot files (app initialization code) ? ???

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Your design process just got a bit less stressful. Table of Contents. Also, take a look at the other.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Usually, the HTML code size is not a big issue, especially for small pages, not data-intensive, or pages that are not SEO-oriented. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. How about errors?”

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Moving to a headless CMS is not an easy decision and the selection process should not be taken lightly. We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Client hints were created to streamline the process of resource selection so that developers can build better responsive web apps more efficiently. Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In that case, you might want to abstract the common parts of the process and manage (version and update) them separately. In addition to themes, we will also need a demo workspace from which we will try out our code. Let’s take a look at the code responsible for the creation of individual posts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process. But how do you tackle the task and integrate a UX research process into your team’s workflow? A great initiative to make complex psychology heuristics more accessible.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Facing this code, one would (rightfully) say it does not perform well. It’s not fast code to run, and it could be optimized with different kinds of loops, or perform those tasks in a single loop. The time from when the user interacts with the page to the time the browser is able to process the request. for 75% of page loads.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

All this process sounds like a bit too much, right? Managing and automating software deployment involves both tools and processes. The most immediate one is that our product can ship new features faster, indeed they can go live as soon as the team has finished coding them. Well, it actually is too much.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. U&lc (Uppercase and lowercase) magazine by Herb Lubalin. These designers imported new processes which brought art directors, layout artists, and writers together to form the creative teams made popular by the famous advertising creative director Bill Bernbach in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

The dreaded refactor of old code can be challenging. Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. When I worked in-house at Shopify in 2013, themes were fairly simple in terms of code complexity. Less code complexity. Carson Shold.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Clean coding practices. Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2021

As my kept iterating on my code, the repo set-up I needed to use at each stage of my project also needed to be upgraded. Reusing Code In The Multi-Monorepo. The code to reuse will comprise: The GitHub Actions workflows to generate the WordPress plugins (including scoping , downgrading from PHP 8.0 Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

So for example, I think the king of this hill is probably Preact, which is a three kilobyte alternative to React that uses the same API, ships way less code and actually runs orders of magnitude faster on safe updates than React does too. So you’ve got things like that. kilobyte subset of Vue that’s optimized around progressive enhancement.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

When maintenance is needed, it won’t take the team as long to maintain the code because of accessibility and clean code.”. To humanize the decision-making process and get executives and colleagues on board by showing them what struggles are faced on a daily basis by disabled users using inaccessible products. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

The trick is that different email clients use different rendering engines — this means that there is no standard for processing email templates. Here are two important aspects: Test whether your code works and sends emails in the right way. Correct Email Testing Process. Test your sending script. Email Testing Toolkit.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s just a matter of it’s you doing it, or if there’s a separate team doing it, but somehow you’re deploying code. But more about processes and ways of communicating on workflows, is that right? So my mantra for the last 20 years has always been people process tools. Not everyone is Google. Jeff: Absolutely.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. Minification removes unnecessary spaces and characters, but uglification actually ‘mangles’ the code to be shorter. The tell-tale sign is that the code contains short, machine-generated variable names rather than untouched source code. 402 KB transferred, 1.1 MB resources, 24 requests.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site. For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. More after jump! Large preview ).

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