Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. It was a great privilege. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Here is our (ever-growing!) Plus, at the end, a few bonus Twitter handles to round things out.). Presented here alphabetically by last name: Rachel Andrew.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. What about images? It makes more sense to automate this task. Let’s start!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. So, having some free time in quarantine, I decided to check whether one of the most evolving industries right now, education technology (EdTech), uses this potential of UX. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier. 2021-06-25T10:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Measurement: Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Did you miss out on it?

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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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Conclusion.

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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. Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Yes, we’ve changed how we defined the user experience of the page load to look at the loading speed of the most relevant content , but it’s basically reusing the old techniques of ensuring that the content loads as quickly as possible. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. This is untrue, she says. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet. .

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. More after jump! 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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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

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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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, 2022

Especially if your technology stack has just been hacked and set up for ransom. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site. The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting. I get why they’d think that way.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. More after jump! Let’s fix that!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. We also expect this upwards trend to continue as we roll out additional improvements to our platform.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. aj Dobrucki.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s easier to set up your content on a traditional CMS as everything you need (content management, design, etc) are already available. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. Traditional CMS Cons. Traditional CMS e.g Check here for more facts.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Note : Brad Frost’s “ Atomic Design ” is a great methodology for identifying these common patterns and building a reusable design system. Brad Frost identifies five distinct levels in atomic design for creating design systems.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. I find it slightly reassuring that, despite there being many websites with very low speeds and high emissions, most of the results are clustered in the bottom right of the chart. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dodds argues testing technology has caught up to a point where there are no longer large cost trade-offs for writing integration tests, which is where his concept of the “test trophy” comes in. The designers on the team can plug in their mockups as a baseline and easily use them to compare the actual experience. Uptime Monitoring.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. Look out for: A supported SDK for your choice of technology, language, and platform.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

But technology is evolving, and there are more and more options that make it easier to create websites. But this also has some disadvantages, you still need to configure and update WordPress, make it secure and are dependent on their technology for the development of new functionalities. Related Reading on SmashingMag.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers written by Matthew Talebi. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers written by Nataliya Sambir. But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Attainable DevOps.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Each of the aspects listed above could be full-time jobs on their own (at Smashing Magazine we’ve published enough articles on them to know), so the value of assistive tools is undeniable. As the report itself summarises, users “aren’t committed to one specific technology, but to practicality.” These include: Infrastructure.

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