Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? The great thing today is that you can use the same technologies used by Netflix or Hulu to deliver your videos. This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

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. Computer Electronics” and “Technology” appear to be the most popular course categories among edX students. Take SimilarWeb. Other approaches.

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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. OK, But Is It Really That Much Faster For Most Web Browsing Or Are We Just Nitpicking Now?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 23, 2018

I first became aware of Citroen’s as a child when my father pointed out a Citroen DS and told me about it’s advanced aerodynamics and technology, including the hydropneumatic suspension system. Much later a friend with a similar obsession about the SM gave me a copy of the magazine in return for a drive of my car.

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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. . Introducing…Alla Gringaus. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

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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. This primarily regards its UXUI and speed, so a progressive web app can be a solution to consider. Why is that?

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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. Large preview ). Government.

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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. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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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

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

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. After learning about Alexey Brodovitch ’s influential work on Harper’s Bazaar until the 1950s, I wanted to know the impact his legacy had on the magazine. Feitler has as much to teach people who design for the web as she did the magazine designers who followed her. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

I started a magazine collection, studied books on art direction and graphic design, and discovered art directors, including Alexey Brodovitch, Neville Brody, Bea Feitler, and Tom Wolsey. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Magazine Anatomy. Time away helped me rediscover my enthusiasm for design. Ernest Journal.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Because server technology is rarely understood by the people who own websites, it’s easy for them to mistakenly think they can save money there. All I mean is that it would be beneficial to understand how the technology behind a website affects the outcomes of what you’ve built. I get why they’d think that way.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Especially if your technology stack has just been hacked and set up for ransom. If you speed up, you’ll likely through off your car’s alignment and loosen up some other critical parts. You’ll need to pull over, stop the car, and get it fixed. Yes, this will mean downtime, and downtime equals lost revenue.

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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

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 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. Trophy including End to End, Integration, Unit, and Static ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Drew: I guess there’s always a trade-off, isn’t there with technology choices? I tend to find in technology choices, the most important thing is just to know. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue. Something that makes it really, really simple. Really quick to implement.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This new technology may cause some to rethink how entire design and engineering teams collaborate and work through use cases and building components. So, you may be wondering, how does UXPin Merge’s technology help with this over-the-top process we all employ today? Out With The Old Process. In With The New Process. In Closing.

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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. Technology. Monolithic. Architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. In contrast to this, numerous types of assistive technologies are designed to make plain text accessible to as wide a variety of people as possible.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Jeff: Now, what are the things that we can do to speed this up? So if you’re using their database container or technology, guess what? ” Right. .” It’s been so long.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

” But these are teams and they’re spending a lot of time building websites or building internal tools or whatever it is they’re building and it takes a lot of effort to like, “Oh, we’re going to switch to a totally different context and use Jekyll or something else,” and you got to get people up to speed. Matthew: Yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In software development, the word “migration,” when we need to upgrade or change technology in a project, usually falls under the latter case, unfortunately. Also, most importantly, we are going to dive into the theory of technologies and approaches that make this type of migration even possible. Good,” “Fast,” “Cheap”. Web Components.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Large preview ). This increases load time by a noticeable amount. How CSS Interacts With Element Widths And Heights.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Let’s start with a comparison between native lazy loading and the good ol’ JavaScript-driven one.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. It’s great when you have the opportunity to experiment with the bleeding edge technology. Package For Measuring Library Size. But what comes next?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. But we know that faster speed does not always equate to better comprehension. In fact, better comprehension is often associated with slower reading speed.” — Sofie Beier (legibility expert), “ Bringing together science and typography ”.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. Since the frontend and backend are separated from each other, it makes it possible for you to pick which front-end technology suits your needs. Traditional CMS e.g Check here for more facts.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs.

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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. Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Will be enabled by default in version 15, which is currently in technology preview. Opera (version 77+) : Enabled by default (uses Chromium internally).

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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.” Search engine optimization. Key Findings.

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