Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed

Hogan, Lara Callender

ISBN 10: 1491902515 / ISBN 13: 9781491902516

Editore: Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2014

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Titolo: Designing for Performance: Weighing ...

Casa editrice: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Data di pubblicazione: 2014

Legatura: paperback

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

As a web designer, you encounter tough choices when it comes to weighing aesthetics and performance. Good content, layout, images, and interactivity are essential for engaging your audience, and each of these elements have an enormous impact on page load time and the end-user experience. In this practical book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical.

To get started, all you need are basic HTML and CSS skills and Photoshop experience.

Topics include:

• The impact of page load time on your site, brand, and users
• Page speed basics: how browsers retrieve and render content
• Best practices for optimizing and loading images
• How to clean up HTML and CSS, and optimize web fonts
• Mobile-first design with performance goals by breakpoint
• Using tools to measure performance as your site evolves
• Methods for shaping an organization's performance culture

Informazioni sull?autore:

Lara Callender Hogan is the Senior Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy and the author of Designing for Performance. She champions performance as a part of the overall user experience, striking a balance between aesthetics and speed, and building performance into company culture.