Number fetishism leads usability studies astray by focusing on statistical analyses that are often false, biased, misleading, or overly narrow. Better to emphasize insights and qualitative research.| Nielsen Norman Group
A skeleton screen is used as a placeholder while users wait for a page to load. This progress indicator is used for full page loads and reduces the perception of a long loading time by providing clues for how the page will ultimately look.| Nielsen Norman Group
Jakob Nielsen's textbook on applying systematic methods throughout the development lifecycle to increase ease-of-use for software, websites, and other user interfaces. Emphasis on cheap and fast methods.| Nielsen Norman Group
I’ve had a few conversations about async code recently (and not so recently) and seen some code that seems to make wrong assumptions about async, so I figured out it was time to have a serious chat about async, what it’s for, what it guarantees and what it doesn’t.| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table !
All usability studies show that fast response times are essential for Web usability: let's believe the data for once! Advice for speeding up sites despite the fact that bandwidth is going down, not up.| Nielsen Norman Group
Slow page rendering today is typically caused by server delays or overly fancy page widgets, not by big images. Users still hate slow sites and don't hesitate telling us.| Nielsen Norman Group
Empower the web community and invite more to build cross-platform apps| lynxjs.org
This section is non-normative.| w3c.github.io
This is part of my series on GenAI Services in Azure: Azure OpenAI Service – Infra and Security Stuff Azure OpenAI Service – Authentication Azure OpenAI Service – Authorization Az…| Journey Of The Geek
At this point in my career, I’ve worked on at least three projects where performance was a defining characteristic: Livegrep, Taktician, and Sorbet (I discussed sorbet in particular last time, and livegrep in an earlier post). I’ve also done a lot of other performance work on the tools I use, some of which ended up on my other blog, Accidentally Quadratic. In this post, I want to reflect on some of the lessons I’ve learned while writing performant software, and working with rather a lot...| Made of Bugs