Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. 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. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

website : 1 — Welcome to GOV.UK Insight 2: There Are Established Strategies To Tackle Web App Accessibility Problems. Lastly, I recommend taking a look at both Vue’s emerging ( Strategy 3 ) and React’s established accessibility community ( Strategy 4 ). Jump to the workshop ?. 2 — Popular on GOV.UK

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Strategy Virtualization Government Education 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

These are just a couple of examples of what disabled users face daily when they try and access a website that is inaccessible. Practicing accessibility in your workflows and methodologies ensures people — disabled or not — that they can access your product, your website, and your brands.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. Adrian Bece.

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Recommended Reading : “ The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js So, it goes without saying just how big of a data treasure trove the website is. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Another important difference is that Web Workers are designed to run in a sandboxed environment , separate from the main thread, which means that they have limited access to system resources and cannot access certain APIs, such as the localStorage or sessionStorage APIs. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Most companies have their own language for talking about products, platforms, systems, value streams and so on. Not all parts of a system are considered to be part of a product. The final column, Responsibilities , captures the parts of the system that each team owns. For example Payments Platform , Website , Admin UI , etc.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Sociotechnical systems are complex systems formed of complex systems. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By adding automated visual testing , we can eliminate those flaky tests , leveling up our testing pipelines providing that coverage (and more) by taking advantage of smart image comparisons using screenshots of our website or app. Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Testing Code Design Strategy 141

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Example: Swedish public transportation website. A wonderful interface of the Swedish public transportation website with a button that’s initially disabled, but becomes accessible once a selection is made. Or perhaps there is no mistake on our end at all, and it’s a system bug that’s absolutely out of our control.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. In this article, we’ll share a few easy-to-learn techniques that will help you to get the most out of EventStorming so you can design more domain-aligned software systems. Then model each of these processes?—?look

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?

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Software Architecture Architecture Government Design 58

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. What tables and data are candidates to extract into a cheaper database system?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As discussed in part 2 , in HTTP/2, this multiplexing is steered using its prioritization system. As we also saw, however, this system was very complex , causing it to often be badly used and implemented in practice (see the image below). Even if a server supports HTTP/3, however, clients (and website owners!)

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Websites with a lot of motion might also have a higher impact on the battery life of mobile devices, or cause more data to be used (autoplaying videos, for instance, will require more of a user’s data than a static image). Most new operating systems enable the user to set their motion preferences in their system-level settings.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. Throughout the workshop, I was diligently taking notes and revisiting the codebase. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Organizations working with the UK government to build new digital services, for example, are required to meet standards defined in their Greening Government ICT and Digital Services Strategy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our growth team advertises on social media platforms and other websites to share news about upcoming titles and new product features, with the ultimate goal of growing the number of Netflix members worldwide. Creative excellence and continuous improvements to evidence selection systems are both crucial in achieving this goal.

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