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There are so many things I love about SpeedCurve's Vitals dashboard...

😀 Key metrics – Backend, FCP, TBT – alongside Core Web Vitals (because #CoreWebVitals are not enough!)
😀 Defines each metric, including browser support
😀 13 months of data!
😀 Explore INP and LCP subparts
😀 Detailed diagnostics for each metric

Believe it or not, there's more. Sign up (for free) and check it out for yourself: speedcurve.com/signup/

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

Few things frustrate me more than feeling like I've done everything right, but nothing got better.

Say you've done all the right things. You've lazy-loaded and compressed and minified. You've seen improvements to Start Render or LCP or INP. But bounce rate didn't improve. Neither did conversion rate or any other business metric you care about. WHY???

The answer might lie on the performance plateau.

speedcurve.com/blog/web-perfor

SpeedCurveSpeedCurve | Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it)Have you ever wondered why your site got faster, but your business and user engagement metrics didn't change? Here's why.

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. WHY???"

speedcurve.com/blog/web-perfor

(I just realized my original post about why – and how – to measure the performance plateau for your site was a couple of years old, so I've refreshed it with new info!)

SpeedCurveSpeedCurve | Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it)Have you ever wondered why your site got faster, but your business and user engagement metrics didn't change? Here's why.

Look, we all like to make fun of what happens when trying to put a picture in a Word document, as well we should - but every single aspect of Word formatting is fucking bonkers.

Like, have you *seen* the default bullet list? By the third level your text is offset into the next room - and don't you fucking DARE writing anything that doesn't fit in the tiny bit of line space left so i breaks, because here be dragons...

I want to make it clear that some maniac designed this 😱

Wer den elend winzigen und nicht benutzerfreundlichen horizontalen Scrollbalken in der Deck-Ansicht von #Mastodon auf dem Desktop höher haben möchte, nutzt in Webkit-basierten Browsern folgendes User-#CSS:

.custom-scrollbars ::-webkit-scrollbar {
height: 15px !important;
}

Neobrutalism is a new UI design style that's been emerging on the web over the last couple of years.

Having seen good and bad examples of this, I'm glad the fabulous folks at NN/g are sharing some best practices around how to use it.

nngroup.com/articles/neobrutal

Nielsen Norman GroupNeobrutalism: Definition and Best PracticesAs a UI design style, neobrutalism focuses on raw, unrefined elements like bold colors, simple shapes, and intentionally "unfinished" aesthetics.
#design#UI#UX
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@Gargron @rvcx Not by you, to my knowledge. Generally, the sentiment of replies from folks here when I mention the need for it to be easy for non-techies to join, is a reaction of fear. Like it’s best as exclusive club.

That, and a few other UX barriers to “normie” usage (e.g. easy cross-server interactions & global-ish search) still make it a hard sell to friends. #UX was mentioned as a big barrier in a “Fedi House” event at SXSW.

As a #Microsoft Office User

I want Office apps to launch with a list of recently accessed files and then just as I click the file I want have it reorder that list based on access history on another device

So that I am constantly surprised and delighted at having the wrong document opened for me at any given time. #UX