Nowadays, customer experience means more than just speed index of a website. Google announced Core Web Vitals metrics in early May 2020. According to Google, Core Web Vitals are a set of real-world, user-centered metrics that quantify key aspects of the user experience. The CLS and LCP play a major role in defining a better [...]

So, have you been on the internet for the past two hours desperately trying to figure out the answer to the question “What exactly is native advertising?“ It can be simply defined as a form of online advertisement that matches the function and form of the platform on which it appears. As CMI's chief strategy advisor, Robert Rose explains, “Native advertising is a paid/third-party advertising format that supports either brand or direct-response goals, and is where the content matches the form, feel, function, and quality of the content of the media on which it appears.“ For the past few years, … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

WordPress is synonymous with slick, beautiful websites that are easy to build and develop with a vast number of plugins. With template sites within WordPress, would be bloggers and website owners can become developers themselves. WordPress makes it easy to create your own highly functional website, without the expense of building a custom site from scratch. However, it’s so easy to get lost in the world of design themes, plugins and user journeys that you can easily forget the security considerations of your new site. Fail to build in security layers though, and you could find your beautiful new site … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

Picture a dark office, blinds drawn. Picture a UX designer smoking a cigar. See the light filtered through the smoke whipped to fog by a spinning ceiling fan. Watch as the UX designer sits at a desk and considers the website. The UX designer has devised a series of tests to determine if a green […] The post The Case Against UX Testing first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

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Developers are often so obsessed with extravagant solutions that they sometimes get carried away – forgetting how the simplest things can make an interface a better place. One such example... The post Room to Breathe: Using Whitespace in the Hero Area appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Pixels are the building blocks of so much of what we see online. And the more advanced display technology becomes, the more of these tiny squares are shown on our... The post 8 Creative Snippets for Creating Pixelated Backgrounds appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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In this article, we'll take a look at the best ways to handle colors in CSS today, some tips for using them in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future.

We all know the stats. Slower website performance is strongly linked to higher abandon rates and lower conversions. What you may not know is that the main culprit is bloated web page payloads, bringing down our otherwise performant web pages via images. That being said, images also drive conversions, social sharing, and overall visitor engagement; […] The post Image Optimization Strategies Compared (Sponsored) appeared first on David Walsh Blog.