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 !
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
