Linkdump for February 20th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
Fascinating post by Alex Rothenberg wherein he digs deep into Angular.js to determine exactly why minification broke his application.
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By Patrick Kua, writing over at MarinFowler.com. The first (explanatory) half is a little on the long-winded side, but the second half ("Guidelines for more appropriate use of metrics") is a gem. I particularly liked the strategies that he proposed for making metrics more "appropriate" — "shorter tracking periods" stuck out to me as something that could be an easy win for a lot of organizations.
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At BLDGBLOG. Filed under: weird, but cool.
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Great in-depth piece by Marc Grabanski on the front-end performance optimizations that they did with the Sprint.ly UI. Includes some detailed discussion of Backbone.js view rendering and its pitfalls. He says it's a pretty high-level discussion, but I don't know… It gets pretty technical, if you ask me. Their lazy-loading solution is a work of art.
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Sacha Greif:
First of all, realism done wrong can morph into kitsch.
That's one way to put it; though I'd propose that the real danger is in making a UI more confusing through skeuomorphic elements. (Winding up with something tacky isn't ideal, but "tacky" isn't always "broken".) I enjoyed the term "skeuominimalism", and/but I'd also assert that when all is said and done, you can say whatever you want about design trends but ultimately you (as a designer) needs to make a decision about your look-and-feel and how it reflects the tone of your brand. (Maybe faux leather is exactly what you're going for?)
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