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If users cannot find the answers to their questions or are not exposed to critical messaging, they will not act, and your website will fail. To prevent that from happening, you need an effective information architecture. In this article, Paul Boag provides you with a process to ensure you have precisely that.

Web performance is critical to inclusive design - users on low-end devices or with poor connectivity are excluded from large and slow applications

One of the main benefits of JavaScript is that it runs both in the browser and the server. As an engineer you need to master a single language and your skills…

Check that dns-prefetch, preconnect, preload, and prefetch browser resource hints are working correctly on your website.

Crazed developer attempts real ecommerce without front-end JavaScript to prove that y’all playin’

Learn why social media buttons could be harming your website, alternative social media engagement options, and more about the Web Share API.

What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.

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Keep your network transmission and parse/compile cost for JavaScript low to ensure pages get interactive quickly.

Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less than two seconds for subsequent loads. We further constrain ourselves to a baseline device and network configuration to measure progress. 2017's global baseline is a ~$200 Android device on a 400Kbps link with a 400ms round-trip-time ('RTT'). This translates to ~130-170KB of critical-path resources, depending on composition; the more JS you include, the smaller the bundle must be.

Why, what and how designers should document accessibility requirements and user interactions to make product better and more inclusive

a11yphant is the easy way to learn the basics of web accessibility. Learn step by step by completing short, interactive coding challenges and quizzes.

Disclaimer: This post and the headline is my opinion. I provide verifiable facts throughout to inform that opinion. I am also not a lawyer and this post does not constitute legal advice. FACIL’iti is one of many vendors that claims its accessibility overlay product can make your site “accessible”. Like…

Author Johann Hari says, ‘Your attention didn’t collapse; it was stolen by big and powerful forces. You haven’t become weak. You’ve been hacked.’ Here’s how to reclaim your brain.

Let's be real, you're going to compare yourself to this and then proceed to contemplate all your life decisions and spiral into depression. (unless you're a recruiter... in which case, I just want you to know that I thrive in inserting generic keywords (like delight and empathy) and ending sentences at the intersection of art and technology.

Biais, atteinte à la démocratie, impact environnemental certain et pouvoir disproportionné, voici les impacts de l'intelligence artificielle.

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A user experience (UX) case study, showing what they've done right, and what they could improve on. Learn about UX design with Built for Mars.

How we optimized full-screen images for Rijksmuseum’s new story platform by realizing a 50-70% savings in total data transferred to the user.

When I started giving talks about SVG back in 2016, I'd occasionally hear a question I never had a great answer for: What if you have a lot of icons on a page?

Third-party scripts provide a wide range of useful functionality, making the web more dynamic. Learn how to optimize the loading of third-party scripts to reduce their impact on performance.

Les créateurs de service Web étant responsables de l'expérience apportée aux internautes, comment les aider à évaluer le risque de surconsommation de matériels indirectement induit par une déception à l’usage du service web ? Comment objectivement diminuer ce facteur aussi appelé obsolescence perçue ?

Une nouvelle enquête, "Mining secrets", coordonnée par Forbidden Stories avec 20 médias internationaux dont Radio France, révèle les pratiques discutables d’une mine de nickel au Guatemala. Une partie de sa production a été exportée en France.

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A publishing platform that says it’s an environment open to everyone doesn’t provide equal access to all.

Pour l'avocate responsable du pôle RGPD et data du cabinet Iteanu Avocats, en mettant en demeure un utilisateur de Google Analytics, la Cnil pousse les entreprises à se tourner vers des solutions européennes.

Tandis que de plus en plus d’acteurs s’intéressent à l’éco-conception des sites Web, peu de travaux se sont intéressés aux apps mobile alors que ces dernière...

An unnoticed industry worth two trillion dollars a year is influencing almost every carbon emission. Sustainability solution seeker Solitaire Townsend calls this sector the "X industry" (where "X" stands for influence), and it includes professional services like advertising and PR firms, management consultancies, corporate law firms, lobbyists and more. In this eye-opening talk, she exposes the industry's massive but largely invisible influence on the environment -- and proposes ways they can use their creativity, inventiveness and knowledge to fix climate change instead of contributing to it.