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The irony of complaining about over designed sites only to have a hidden form be revealed from the bottom of the page. > The web exists to connect people and share information. Let's not confuse it with an art gallery. websites are art
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Performance is also an irrelevant metric. Usability is.
Performance is not a metric. I mentioned web perf metrics that focus on UX, such as usability: https://web.dev/articles/user-centric-performance-metrics
It’s still about performance.
How fast can I use it, how smooth can I use it, etc.
My point is about how good can I do what I want to do on a website.
For instance a shopping site can as fast and snappy as it likes, if I can’t find the right articles is useless. Amazon and ebay come to my mind who ignore even simple exact search terms just to show things I didn’t search for.
I think the perfect era for webpages were the late 1990s to early 2000s. No popups, good old marquee, buttons were clear and explicit, you could confidently click a hyperlink knowing full well it's going to take you to the page it said it would. Today, we've lost the original meaning and intent of the hyperlink - if you clicked one, it could open a popup, trigger some dumb react component to display something as simp…
Any time I land on a webpage that has text that goes full width left-to-right with a white background and black text I feel there's a good chance it will be very useful content. I miss that.
I pretty much set everything I can to dark mode these days, so personally don't agree with white backgrounds in general.
It wasn't unusual to reject some designs due to weight. 500 Kb tops at the begging, so degraded backgrounds were a no-go.
I think a much bigger problem are the endless ads, pop-ups, distracting animations etc.
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Performance is not a metric. I mentioned web perf metrics that focus on UX, such as usability: https://web.dev/articles/user-centric-performance-metrics
> User-centric performance metrics It’s still about performance. How fast can I use it, how smooth can I use it, etc. My point is about how good can I do what I want to do on a website. For instance a shopping site can as fast and snappy as it likes, if I can’t find the right articles is useless. Amazon and ebay come to my mind who ignore even simple exact search terms just to show things I didn’t search for.
that's not a web design/frontend issue, unless they hide the search bar.
Kind of a low effort article? Forms an opinion on web perf trends based on a design awards site, pulls some basic stats you can find on wpostats.com, and then uses irrelevant metrics such as page weight[0] instead of user centric perf metrics[1]. Yes websites have become more complicated[2]. HTTP Archive has been tracking that for a long time. But this isn’t new. And actually web performance isn’t getting worse, it’s…
Performance is also an irrelevant metric. Usability is.
you kinda need the one to get the other in the decent place, even if it is not the only one.
Lack of performance WILL turn every design into mediocre or worse