Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com
Well, well, well. It turns out that building your entire application, content’n’all, in JavaScript isn’t so good for performance.
Archive: May 29th, 2012
How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users - UX Movement
A fascinating insight into the psychological implications of animated progress indicators.
Pictures and vision
Robin Sloan compares Facebook and Google in an interesting way:
Really, Facebook is the world’s largest photo sharing site—that also happens to be a social network and a login system.
Google is getting good, really good, at building things that see the world around them and actually understand what they’re seeing.
Andy Budd on dConstruct 2012 | Interview | .net magazine
Andy gives his thoughts on this year’s dConstruct. He does a good job of explaining what to expect, and—more importantly—what not to expect.
Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects
Some sensible advice from Oliver Reichenstein. Cluttering your social media icons isn’t helping and may actively be hindering your audience.