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30 May
23 Sept 2025
The Old Way vs. The Reality of Your Customers For years, the gold standard for benchmarking web performance, particularly for Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV), has been a mobile device baseline—specifically, a throttled connection and CPU designed to simulate a Moto G4. This approach was established with good intentions: to ensure websites are accessible to […]
Optimizing Third-Party Content Delivery: A Deep Dive into Preconnect’s Performance and Call Cost Implications
BazaarvoiceThis document details how preconnect improves web performance, especially for Bazaarvoice's third-party content, by accelerating connection setups and reducing LCP. Crucially, internal testing confirmed preconnect operations are not counted as API calls, validating a "no count, low cost" model—a key insight for our developer blog.
20 Dec 2024
Forms are everywhere online, from signing up for newsletters to making purchases. But let’s be honest — nothing’s more frustrating than a form that’s hard to fill out or riddled with unclear error messages. In this post, we’ll dive into practical tips and tricks to make your form validation seamless, user-friendly, and maybe even enjoyable! We’ll walk through tips for…
9 Jan 2023
Author: Darragh Burke, Software Engineer II, Web Development at Tinder Tinder’s UI Opportunities: Wildfire When Tinder first launched in 2012, it pioneered a brand new user experience: the Swipe Right® and “Swipe Left”™ features. The app’s simplicity was a big part of what made it so appealing. An early version of Tinder We’ve emphasized building new features and moving fast…
14 Jul 2022
Leonardo Da Vinci, design for a flying machine Historically, excellent technical documentation combines art and science, not just to collect information, but to create understanding using words. Readers should experience information transfer as smooth, transparent, and simple. As a writer and editor on Xandr’s Technical Communication team, though, I often find myself communicating about the invisible complexity of documentation. Creating…
4 Oct 2018
A lot of (virtual) ink has been spilled on this blog about automated testing (no, really). This post is another in a series of dives into different automated testing tools and how you can use them to deliver a better, higher-quality web application. Here, we’re going to focus on tools and services specific to ‘visual […]
6 Feb 2018
Sampling is a Bazaarvoice product that allows consumers to join communities and claim a limited amount of free products. In return consumers provide honest & authentic product reviews for the products they sample. Products are released to consumers for reviews at the same time. This causes a rush to claim these products. This is an […]
10 Sept 2017
In this article I will give a quick overview of how to spot UX problems in your product and fix them quickly and effectively. UX — what’s it all about? Let’s imagine — you have launched your product and are quite happy with it. And then suddenly you hear everyone talk about UX, which gets you wondering: what is UX?…
20 Apr 2017
There is an overwhelming amount of books available today for UX (user experience) professionals of all levels. In this post I will share the books that helped me get started in UX. The following books got me hooked on the idea of working in UX and educating myself on the topic. They helped me shape an idea of what UX…
27 Jan 2017
So many folks are wonder what they need to do to make a career of User Experience Design. As someone who interviewed many designers before, I’d say the only gate between you and a career in UX that really matters is your portfolio. Tech moves too fast and is too competitive to worry about tenure […]
16 Dec 2016
Pattern libraries sometimes fall short of helping enterprise teams build different products the same way. These palettes of components (toolbars, pop-ins) and patterns (searching, navigating) can be assembled into any number of UIs, leading to too many right answers. While the public pattern libraries like Google Material must accommodate countless unimagined applications, our private libraries […]
12 Nov 2015
In October Kristof, Kolja and me visited the AMUSE conference in Budapest. First UX conference for all of us! We went to stay for a whole week and used the first days for a ‘User Interface Retreat’ in our apartment. The AMUSE partners with the CRUNCH conference about big data and shares a lot of the infrastructure like […]
24 Feb 2015
We conducted our 3rd SI Hackathon on Feb 19th to Feb 20th. This is one of the hackathon results. Background While searching for a nice datepicker for SI I figured out that there’s nothing that is really pleasing from both technical and aesthetical perspective. Either it is an jQuery wrapped thingy, or wrapped pickaday or if […]