Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Large preview ). New Online Workshops on Smashing.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. State Of Mobile 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

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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

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Using responsive images is a key part of delivering fully responsive web design. Designed by Espen Brunborg and Nadia Snopek. Let’s figure it all out.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. They carry data about the data being transferred.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As any seasoned team will know, building the storefront capabilities is one thing, and running it at a production scale that is able to absorb large waves of traffic, driven by flash sales or breakout social campaigns, is a whole other and massive operational challenge. “It Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. Terabyte of wasted traffic. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Tom Greenwood’s book, Sustainable Web Design is packed with advice for building low-carbon websites. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( 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. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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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. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

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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. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Take advantage of specialization and economies of scale by moving expensive files to services designed for them.

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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. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Large preview ). Setting Realistic Goals.

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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. Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. Google Dev Docs. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. This is exactly how Smashing Magazine handles its stylesheets. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Luckily, QUIC was designed with TLS in mind from the start, and as such does combine both the transport and cryptographic handshakes in a single mechanism.

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