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Friction often has a negative connotation in user experience design, but it actually has many benefits. Its best-known use case is mitigating unintended consequences in high-risk scenarios, yet it has a new place in the age of artificial intelligence. Adding strategic friction to interfaces can lead to profound efficiency gains in machine learning algorithms.
A high-performance ecommerce template, including support for BigCommerce, Medusa, Saleor, Shopify, and Swell.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just released a report highlighting the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities of 2022.
Product Research Intern Jacky Huang and Software Engineer Willy Wu discuss their FigJam widget that matches up your work style with the stars, and how fun is the future of collaborative work.
In the world of software development, collaboration can make the difference between a brittle last-minute release and a reliable, maintainable, pain-free project. Whether you’ve been coding for a day or a decade, your colleagues are there to help strengthen your work. But they can only help if you’ve given them the tools to do so.
In this two-part series of articles, Hannah Milan covers the best practices when using various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content.
Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Cloudflare Zero Trust Integration with Datadog
Today, we’re announcing a private beta of GitHub Copilot with code referencing that includes a filter to detect code suggestions matching public code on GitHub.
Behind "Hello World" on Linux
Liran Cohen and the team at Bookaway, a travel booking service, dramatically improved their site’s performance by auditing Core Web Vitals. In this article, Liran shares his team’s process for auditing and monitoring Web Vitals and the effort it took to dramatically improve Bookaway’s performance — and the benefits that came with it.
A deep dive into the recent incidents relating to Workers KV, and how we’re going to fix them
Announcing the new Upstash database integrations for Workers. Now it is easier to use Upstash Redis, Kafka and QStash inside your Worker
Learn how you can structure your enterprise to get the most value out of GitHub and provide the best experience for your developers!
Learn about how we build containerized services that power microservices on the GitHub.com platform and many internal tools.
Compare the performance of bulk load methods in PostgreSQL. Get recommendations for parameter settings to improve performance even more.
John Maeda shares takeaways from this year’s Design In Tech Report, and why we should embrace uphill thinking in a world optimized for shortcuts.
In this post, learn how Shopify's Sidekick solves markdown rendering jank and response delay in LLM chatbots with buffering parser and async content resolution.
We’re talking about headless content management systems. What are they, and how do they differ from more traditional systems? Drew McLellan talks to Alvin Bryan to find out.
In this article, Carie Fisher outlines which CSS media features are available for detecting user preferences and how they are used to design and build more inclusive user experiences.
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our homegrown experimentation platform that we’re calling . Based on everything we’ve learned over the last 10+ years about what it takes to enable experimentation at scale, the platform makes it easy for teams to set up, run, coordinate, and analyze their own user tests — from simple A/B testing to t
As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been resolved, and all that’s left to work toward are the marginal benefits, the cherries on top. Cherries on top might add delight and panache, but they rarely cause fundamental shifts in performance and success. And as a business, even a mature one, we’re looking for the innovations that tangibly impact t
At Spotify, . Most of these tests follow a standard design, where we assign users randomly to control and treatment groups, and then observe the difference in outcomes between these two groups. Usually, the control group, also known as the “holdout” group, retains the current experience, while the treatment group experiences a difference: a new feature, a change to an algorithm, or a redesigned us
React Server Components are changing the fundamental paradigms of React. Learn how Next.js handles the complexities and improves the performance of your applications.
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find unique and inspiring wallpapers for August 2023. Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
