Hi, I'm Nicolas Hoizey.
Passionate about the Web, I co-founded
Clever Age, a full-service agency covering the entire digital production chain.
I have many other interests, including photography.
Seriously, do we need yet another version of Low Quality Image Placeholders?
Why do some people want to do additional work just to show useless colourful pixels to users, delaying the rendering of the actual image?
As a user, I hate LQIP. Single colour backgrounds are fine, though.
Ten tips for better CSS transitions and animations
users may not realize what it is about the transitions or animations on our websites and apps, but they can keenly spot the difference between good and bad. They intuitively know when an app’s movement feels good, and when the impression is instead generic or unpolished—even if they can’t explain how or why.
Looks like Google likes it when we start improving websites performance! 🚀
Accessibility Beyond Code Compliance
Design systems (and pattern libraries within them) codify your organization’s design and coding guidelines in such a way that the software you produce is consistent and the teams working on delivering that software are able to be more efficient because they aren’t having to design and build every interface from scratch. Having a design system that is accessible enables teams to avoid introducing new accessibility bugs in the process of creating bespoke interfaces. It also means finding and fixing an accessibility bug in the design system should fix it in all of the products using that design system. (That last part isn’t always perfect, but I don’t have time to get into that today.)
Everything is awesome: Don't forget the Lego
Six paediatric health-care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre-ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score.
JAMstack is fast only if you make it so
JAMstack often promotes itself as an excellent way to provide performant sites. It's even the first listed benefit on jamstack.wtf, a "guide [which] gathers the concept of JAMstack in a straight-forward guide to encourage other developers to adopt the workflow". But too many JAMstack sites are very slow.
Can we monitor User Happiness on the Web with performance tools?
I really like that SpeedCurve tried to innovate with this recent "User Happiness" metric (original version). It aggregates multiple technical metrics to decide if users visiting the page are happy or not with it. But I see several issues in this metric.
Evan Minto wrote a great article showing the Internet Archive has tested the actual root font-size set by their visitors, and the result shows a lot of people still change the default one: Pixels vs. Ems: Users DO Change Font Size.
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