Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

In the six months since I’ve received feedback from my own workshops and other people’s workshops about ways to improve the canvas. Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started. Unoptimized, full-size JPEG is around 1.2

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

CSS-in-JS can also have a performance impact by causing additional renders and dependencies on the global state. Recommended reading : “ The Unseen Performance Costs Of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries In React Apps )” by Aggelos Arvanitakis. support doing so with no additional setup; it also yields results that are performant and static.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Rob also takes a look at the accessibility and performance implications that shadows bring along, as well as how to animate them. Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. When designing cards, you might want a border-radius to have a quite sizeable value when there is enough space to display it along with other cards.

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

That ‘ideate’ phase includes planning, creating business cases, and UX design to name but a few key activities– very creative and technical work that plays a crucial role in meeting end user needs. Clever Value Stream Architecture designs for speed, visibility and traceability and it relies on APIs and abstraction. Its toolchain.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Jump to the workshop ?. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. Let’s fix that!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Part 2: CSS Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. It’s so easy to get design choices wrong and make things worse instead of making them better. In order to effectively design sociotechnical systems, I recommend using design heuristics. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. For example, are we talking about a manual process performed by one employee or one thousand employees? and “How long does it take?” How Often Does this Happen?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. Jump to the workshop ?. The Problem With Traditional Approaches.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. That code wrapping your API requests might perform perfectly with some mocked data. Jump to the workshop ?. The designers on the team can plug in their mockups as a baseline and easily use them to compare the actual experience. Unit Testing.

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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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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. Once you create your own code of ethics, you might notice an improvement not only in your team’s work and performance but also in the team’s culture as well. Interaction Design Foundation. Devin Harold.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Subsequently, the problem of coordinating multiple teams arises, each with their own backlog and performance goals to achieve. Perhaps led by strong managers, they will fight vehemently for their work to be prioritised and software systems to be designed to their needs. Very often, there will be dominant teams in an organisation.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The answer is performance, but more importantly concurrency conflicts. With an understanding of the performance and concurrency implications of enforcing Invariant Business Rules we can ask the business, what would happen if a patient booked two appointments on the same day or a reschedule wasn’t instantly provided?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tatiana Mac wrote this excellent article which covers some of the approaches developers might consider taking, as well plenty of other great points, including key questions to ask when designing with motion on the web. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! The Sum Of All Parts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. see the end of those relationships when members elect to cancel.

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