Designing for Performance by Lara Callender Hogan
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
Lara Swanson is the Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy. She champions page load time, experiment-driven design, and delivering a consistent experience to screens of all sizes. She also curates (and contributes to) CSS3 Geometry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781491902516 |
| ISBN 10 | 1491902515 |
| Title | Designing for Performance |
| Author | Lara Callender Hogan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | O'Reilly Media |
| Year published | 2015-01-13 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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