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#283 Core web vitals with Katie Hempenius

February 25, 2022 00:41:39

Your own vital signs are your heart rate, temperature, breathing and blood pressure. These are used to help get an idea of your health, and give a “heads-up” that something is not as performing as it should be.

Google has come up with its own set of web vitals to give you an idea of how your website (or web app) is performing, and suggest what you might do to improve it. Katie Hempenius is part of the Chrome team at Google and works with performance and core web vitals and joins us to explain more.

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#182 Semantic building blocks

April 13, 2018 00:27:49

Episode 182 is a link show. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention.

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#160 I need more sleep 💤

June 9, 2017 00:35:05

Episode 160 is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention.

Article one is Emojis: Tools for Emotions Communicating affect in text messages by Monica Riordan “Being unbound by linguistic rules, they engage a user in considering the vast potential emojis have in communication.”

The second article we discuss is Why your design team should hire a writer by John Saito. “The next time you’re wrangling with words, just consider it. What if you added a writer to your design team? A writer might be that one missing piece to your puzzle.”.

Our third article is Long Term Hidden Text Experiment by Shai Aharony. “Google was no longer content with just reading the code of the page, it actually rendered it so that it could see the page as a human would see it.”. SEO and design and hidden texts.

(Listening time: 35 minutes)

Episode 160: I need more sleep 💤- A #linkshow with articles by @saitojohn @ShaiAharony & @ChathamU‘s Monica Riordan https://t.co/MZj3OOtwEB

— UX Podcast (@uxpodcast) June 9, 2017

References:

Article 1: Emojis: Tools for Emotions Communicating affect in text messages
- by Dr Monica Riordan
Article 2: Why your design team should hire a writer
- by John Saito
- Episode 50 James & Per begin with Words
- Episode 104 featuring Abby Covert
- Episode 105 featuring Nicole Fenton
- Episode 153 a linkshow featuring a John Saito article
Article 3: Long Term Hidden Text Experiment
- by Shai Aharony
Cover art: Emoji by Frank Behrens

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#99 James & Per hide their hamburgers

May 15, 2015 00:37:09

Three articles stumbled upon recently by James and Per are up for discussion in this Link Show.

First up – Why It’s Totally Okay to Use a Hamburger Icon. Or rather, why you should support top tasks with your designs. Second – Content first design. Using content prototypes to perfect your content. Third and finally – The Fallout From MobileGeddon: What’s the Impact on Your Business? Google tweaked their algorithm to punish poor mobile experiences.

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Episode 24: James and Per with no added ketchup

October 8, 2012 00:33:17

Sara Andersson from Search Integration joins James and Per in Episode 24 to discuss search and No Ketchup. We talk to Sara about her long background in search and marketing, her passion for search and the “no ketchup” blog – doing honest work for clients, pulling the lid on sugar coated fluffy offers that deliver nothing, breaking down silos and helping clients learn more about search.