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My thoughts: "Current tech trends in terms of UI" are generally antithetical to usability. Speed is an important aspect of usability, and web sites and mobile
by chubot 10y ago
My thoughts:
"Current tech trends in terms of UI" are generally antithetical to usability. Speed is an important aspect of usability, and web sites and mobile apps are as slow and unresponsive as they've ever been.
Like security, performance is a holistic concern; it cuts across layers abstraction (your "stack"). Because even good software is so layered these days, a younger programmer is less likely to have visited enough areas of the stack to form good mental models about performance.
On looking at the site you point out, I think it could use some CSS changes, but that's usually in the domain of design and not engineering.
- sean_patel 10y ago> Speed is an important aspect of usability. Agreed. But I couldn't bring myself to get past the ugly UI and get to performance testing, bundling / minifications, async calls etc.
- ljka98 10y agoWell the site (kettlerusa.com) has crashed now...
- sean_patel 10y agoThere you go. Made my point, despite the downvotes from the Politically correct HN readers.
- Aloha 10y agoYou size the hosting for a site for whatever you expect to have, not google scale - to do anything else is a waste of money/resources.
- fzzzy 10y agoPlease post your dynamic site that can survive getting to the top of hn.
- sctb 10y agoPlease stop complaining about downvotes—this violates the guidelines—and please treat the community with civility by not ascribing to their actions motivations of your own construction. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html