2019

Visualizing Speed Without Real Data

Many of us are facing the challenge of promoting the idea of speed of user experience within our organizations and crave any support data to help “sell” it to business stakeholders, product managers and engineers. Real User Measurement (RUM) is a great…

2018

Speed Patterns

Speed is a major contributor to user experience on modern web sites. It is important to pay attention not only to technologies that said experiences are build with, but to the way they are designed as well. Proper speed…

2017

OpenSCAD Visual editor, Brett Victor style

I feel uncomfortable with traditional click-n-drag visual editors, whatever it is a pixel-based editing in Photoshop or 3D editing in Tinkercad. I’m spending time editing something, but comparing to development, result is very “fragile” and depends on exact sequence of pre-planned events and relies on precise drag-and-drop capabilities and heavy use of undo even with years of mouse handling…

Progressive Storyboards

Speed needs to be designed Speed of User Experience (UX) is important for your web sites and mobile applications, but it often takes a back seat to functional improvements and is always thought of as purely technical exercise – proactive at…

2015

Web Performance Full Time

I’ve been at truTV, formerly Court TV for 11½ years which by industry standards is pretty long run with any company. Well, I’ve worked with some great people and done quite a few interesting projects in-house and outside, especially in Web Performance space so I consider it a good and productive run. Anyway, doesn’t matter how long something lasts, there will be…

2011

Results of Google Hackathon

I’ve attended Google Apps Hackathon recently and coded up some web performance and Google Docuements awesomeness with the team of cool people! See more in ShowSlow blog: http://www.showslow.com/blog/measuring-web-performance-using-google-spreadsheets/ web design history

JavaScript realizer

After listening to Anton Kovalyov’s talk at GothamJS, I thought that a couple of examples of “your code” vs “what JS engine thinks your code is” he was showing were actually very good. I think linting (and hinting) is not the only way to improve the code and maybe a tool that can convert user’s…

Get distracted by ideas!

I don’t know why, but my brain is constantly wandering away when I read an interesting book. Sometimes it makes me re-read paragraphs or even whole chapters over again because I completely miss the point while reading automatically with my eyes, but being somewhere else in my thoughts. My first reaction was to shake it…

RB: ShowSlow 0.18: Support for Google Page Speed Online API and more

Google Page Speed Online API and more in ShowSlow 0.18: http://www.showslow.com/blog/page-speed-online-api/ RB from ShowSlow blog

RB: ShowSlow at Velocity 2011

I’m going to talk at opening Workshop at Velocity. http://www.showslow.com/blog/showslow-at-velocity-2011/ RB from ShowSlow blog.

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