Too often, any talk of web performance quickly ventures into the land of heavy geekery. Terms like DNS lookups, Gzipping, minifying, far future expires headers, caching, ETags and more are thrown around and consequently lose the attention of most non-techy people. This perpetuates a mentality that p
Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
In 2008, I worked on _Boots.com_. They wanted a single-page checkout with the trendiest of techniques from that era, including accordions, AJAX and client-side validation.
So often we cram a load of crap onto a single web page and then play silly buggers trying to get them to load efficiently. Instead design for actual performance.
Green Cloud : gérer l'impact environnemental des projets data - Alteca
Avis d’expert : Le Cloud peut-il être "green" ? Comment utiliser et stocker sa data tout en maitrisant son impact environnemental ? C’est la question à laquelle a répondu notre expert Data, David Teite, dans cet article. Il nous parle de Green Cloud, de FinOps et nous donne quelques bonnes pratiques pour optimiser son impact environnemental tout en gagnant en efficacité dans sa stratégie data.
Conversion of fonts to WOFF/WOFF2 and font subsetting with Glyphhanger · Florian Brinkmann
To use web fonts with wide browser support, we need the font files in and format. Who does not care about Internet Explorer, Safari on Mac OS before Sierra...
Sustainable UX: How Designers Can Help Make a Positive Impact on the Environment
The internet is a major polluter, and every site or service we produce does some level of harm. Laddering up from local concerns to the global perspective, we discuss four main spheres of influence that designers can make the most impact on.
When It Comes to Good CX, Measurement Is Critical - GovLoop
Formalizing and distributing knowledge about CX is critical. However, there are a few elements of digital government that seem to have been overlooked.
Our #DigitalEconomy has experienced several rapid waves of evolution. It began with Dotcom companies, where over exuberance saw fortunes lost when the tech b...
Ever since responsive web design started, we've had a problem with the way images load on the web. Now, Firefox is fixing the problem. Add width & height att...
Nous avons déjà abordé les sujets de l’augmentation des températures, et celui-ci du manque d’eau. Je vais le répéter encore et encore, mais tout cela est dû à l’intensification des échanges.
Using UI System Fonts In Web Design: A Quick Practical Guide — Smashing Magazine
For perhaps the first time since the original Macintosh, we can get excited about using system UI fonts. They’re an interesting, **fresh alternative to web typography** — and one that doesn’t require a web-font delivery service or font files stored on your server. How do we use system UI fonts on a website, and what are the caveats?
System UI fonts being amazing kind of snuck up on us. Google has been toiling away at Roboto with great success (including regular updates), Apple made a splash with San Francisco, and Mozilla asked renowned type designer Erik Spiekermann to create Fira Sans.
Croire au mérite aide-t-il (ou non) les élèves à réussir ?
Si la croyance en la méritocratie peut encourager les élèves dans leurs efforts, elle contribue aussi à légitimer des inégalités. Explications à l’occasion de la Journée du refus de l’échec scolaire.