Topic: Performance Page 2

Part I of this series established that some of the challenges in building service workers for complex websites stem from having to accommodate page request variations. In this iteration, we’ll touch on how to handle similar variations in the… More

Google’s announcement of Android Instant Apps caused me to fear for the future of the web for the first time. I’ve participated in many native versus web debates over the years. We even contemplated becoming an iOS-only shop after… More

Michael Mahemoff‘s recent article on how Progressive Web Apps have Leapfrogged the Native Install Model reminded me of a video I discovered while researching my new Adapting to Input talk. I keep revisiting the video because it shows… More

We recently got the opportunity to develop a service worker for use on Smashing Magazine, which we’ll write about in more detail soon. This is the first of a multi-part article that will examine some of the solutions we… More

In 2008, I sat gobsmacked in Web 2.0 Expo session. The topic of M. Jackson Wilkinson‘s presentation was “Design and User Experience in the Agile Process“, and I literally couldn’t imagine designing that way. Fast forward seven years,… More

Update (July 2019): Our process has changed quite a bit since this article was written. Check out our latest update! When I wrote about why you shouldn’t use icon fonts in your next web project, I had no… More

We had the great fortune to help WalmartLabs convert their sites to responsive design, and it is always nice to see our clients get recognized for their hard work. Mini Kurhan and Olawale Oladunni, two designers at… More

Responsive image breakpoints have vexed me for nearly four years. They have been my personal koan—my unsolvable problem—until today. See a couple of years ago, I had a crazy idea to pick image breakpoints using performance budgets. More

Icons are everywhere. These “little miracle workers” (as John Hicks described them) help us reinforce meaning in the interfaces we design and build. Their popularity in web design has never been greater; the conciseness and versatility of pictograms… More

It was mid-afternoon on a Wednesday when my team started finding strange bugs in older versions of Internet Explorer. At first these appeared to be unrelated… until we noticed seemingly random chunks of style appeared to be missing entirely. What… More