Fastly Altitude - June 25, 2015. Chief SpeedCurver Steve Souders explains how design and web performance are more interconnected than ever before. Users want a fast website with a rich design, but sometimes the interplay between design and performance feels like a fixed sum game: one side's gain is the other side's loss. Design and performance are indeed connected, but it's more like the yin and yang. They aren't opposing forces, but instead complement each other. Bringing these processes together produces experiences that are rich and fast.
Video from the talk: http://fastly.us/Altitude2015_Design-Performance
Steve's bio: Steve Souders is a co-founder at SpeedCurve, where he develops web performance services. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance; it was #1 in Amazon's Computer and Internet bestsellers. His follow-up book, Even Faster Web Sites, provides performance tips for today's Web 2.0 applications. Steve is the creator of many performance tools and services including YSlow, the HTTP Archive, Cuzillion, Jdrop, SpriteMe, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group.
18. Speed is more important
than design embellishment.
People are filling
small gaps in their
day with news. It
must load fast on all
touchpoints.
The design should
feel light and nimble,
always fresh and up
to date. Never
heavy, slow to load
or clogged up with
content.
Users expect sites
to render in under 2
seconds.
DAN/TBWA
example