Best practices to achieve balance between design and performance
Ways to bring designers and developers together to optimize user experience.
Steve Souders
Steve Souders works at SpeedCurve on the interplay between performance and design. He previously served as Google’s head performance engineer, chief performance Yahoo!, and as chief performance officer at Fastly. Steve has pioneered much of the work in the world of web performance. He is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. He is the creator of many performance tools and services including YSlow, the HTTP Archive, Episodes, ControlJS, and Browserscope. Steve taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University and serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O’Reilly.
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Creating meaningful metrics that get your users to do the things you want
Buddy Brewer, Steve Souders, and Mark Zeman illustrate how identifying and focusing deeply on a few meaningful metrics facilitates far better decision-making.