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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. Expanded Child From console.log(children). { $$typeof: Symbol(react.element), key: null, props: { href: "[link] children: "Smashing Magazine", style: {padding: "0 10px"} }, ref: null, type: "a", // … other properties }.

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Open Source C++ Google Website 138

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

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Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

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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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

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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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Web design had stagnated, predictability had replaced creativity, and ideas seemed less important than data. Andrew Clarke.

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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. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. All those navigations can benefit from the Back/Forward Cache to instantly restore the page. More after jump!

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. More after jump! Once a week.

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Testing Network Website Google 99

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process. Large preview ).

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Google Design Strategy Website 59

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s because they are meant for user preferences, as mentioned here in the case of iOS and here in the Android documentation when talking about the Security library which is designed to provide wrappers to the SharedPreferences specifically to encrypt the data before storing it. Secure Storage On Mobile. Large preview ).

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Storage Mobile Website Java 93

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. 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.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. Actually, I was just checking the Cut Into The Jamstack website today, and the accessibility score is very high. But for me, I don’t have design sense. Show Notes. Mike: Yeah.

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Website Design Open Source Software 62

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Design Google Website Small Business 62

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. More after jump!

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker. 2022-06-01T10:00:00+00:00.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 123

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. With Gatsby, you can pull data from (almost) anywhere and use it to generate static or dynamic websites. I used to design and develop WordPress themes. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Paulina Hetman.

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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. As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free.

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Google Performance Cache Website 111

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters.

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Design Media C++ Technology 116

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. Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 94

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. 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.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. Lighthouse results. A second type of data is called real-user data.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. 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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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