The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The second is one where an application is hosted behind an app store, for example mobile phones or even game consoles. Deployment Strategies We are all familiar with the advantages of releasing frequently and in smaller chunks. Hence, the sampling strategy is different if it is a mobile application versus a smart TV.

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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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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 7, 2020

Making predictions is a dangerous game, but as we look forward to the next decade a few things seem certain: increasing automation, increasing system complexity, faster processing, more inter-connectivity, and an even greater human and societal dependence on technology. Ironies of automation , Bainbridge, Automatica, Vol. Why do we automate?

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MachMetrics

MAY 31, 2019

From speed testing to usability testing, use these ten strategies to ensure your website is always running on all cylinders. Keep a Constant Eye on Speed. As any good web developer will tell you, load speed is a vital metric to consider as part of your front-end load testing efforts, as it directly affects user experience.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Building teams is not a numbers game. Will there be enough expertise on the team to give this person the support they need to get upto speed and contribute (within a reasonable timeframe)? It was actually amazing to have this side-by-side comparison of how to do things and how not to do things. Good luck on your journey.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With a carefully crafted SEO strategy, you can rank your website at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords. If you are aware of the latest SEO trends for 2023 , you can amend your existing strategy and get all the benefits for your business. This is how powerful SEO is. This is a fact. Stay tuned!

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. NSDI’20.

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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. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

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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

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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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. Jump to table of contents ?. Assemble A Crew. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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

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. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

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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

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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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Sometimes you will find that enterprises have designed their own frameworks to deal with their targetted goals and missions. A lack of long-term planning made them stick to their own strategy rather than adopting as per W3C, users, and developers. These can be technology-related, design-related, new device-related, etc.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. In other cases, a vendor may play games with intellectual property claims to delay standardisation or lure competitors into a patent minefield (as Apple did with Touch Events).

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Design: Performance is the gap between Figma mockups and the user experience of products for many, but not all , users. The extent to which a product performs well, the higher its likelihood of behaving in accordance to the approved design spec. Some begin an unproductive blame game, accusing tech leads of incompetence, or worse.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As we expand offerings rapidly across the globe, our ideas and strategies around plans and offers are evolving as well. This re-design enabled us to reposition the SKU catalog as an extensible, scalable, and robust rule-based “self-service” platform. The adoption of an externalized rule evaluation engine was a major game-changer.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. This is where we started.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

But, the over-focus on micro has detracted from the true benefits of microservices which are about improving the quality and speed of development. A common question in designing a domain is “how big should a domain be?” It’s more of an attempt to improve collaboration and design culture. We give no guidance here.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) Still, this is more disruptive than developing technologies that mimic existing functionality in the same segment: being late to the game with a "me, too" strategy does not generate much in the way of behaviour change.

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