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Iterating design ideas for SL’s travel planner

Iterating design ideas for SL’s travel planner

Stockholm Public Transport (Commonly known as SL) launched a new, responsive, website in May 2014. As is often the case with redesigned sites, it has received a fair amount of criticism. The travel planner in particular has come in for a bit of a bashing, but it’s also received

How fast is your website on mobile devices?

Whether you have a responsive website or not, the chances are these days that you have a significant chunk of visitors accessing your site from a mobile or over a mobile network. But how fast is your website for these mobile visitors? Google Analytics makes it pretty easy to see

How can I improve my website?

No website is perfect. It’s not going to be. The pace of change within digital media is far too fast for us to reach perfection. We can though make them more effective. People learn and adapt. We learn and adapt. We adjust and improve. Testing and tweaking. That’s

5 basic (and practical) ways to make your site load faster

Faster is better. There’s no arguing about it. Google likes faster pages, people like faster pages. Your 3G wireless connection loves leaner, slimmer pages. God damn, your shareholders love them too! Website performance optimisation, like search engine optimisation – or any optimisation – is a fine art. It also follows the

ROPS: Return on page speed

It’s not new news that the speed at which your webpage loads is really important, we’ve known it since the modem days of the 90s. Despite that, we’re still allowing ourselves to create large sluggish pages that are costing organisations billions each year. “Consumers cite slow loading

The hidden Impact of those extra little features

I was indexing Swedish digital agency Avantime’s new website for The Beantin Index. Indexing sites is always a great exercise. Amongst other things, it gives me the chance to brush-up on and evaluate various methods, techniques and ideas. Of the sites I’ve reviewed, almost all have an eyebrow

5 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 26, 2010)

Why I Still Blog Hans Kullin asked and answered Why do I still blog? last week on his blog, this week, John Cass gives his answer. Both provide some interesting insights into the ever-evolving blogosphere. Yahoo Style Guide July 6th Yahoo will launch their book, which will cover grammar, punctuation,

Page load times and big fat Swedish newspapers

Many major newspapers have notoriously very bulky websites. In fact, they are generally some of the most overweight and unhealthy sites on the internet. Load time matters Why is this a bad thing? Well, mainly slower loading times. People have very little patience for things to happen online. When combined

6 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 15, 2010)

Collaboration Is More Important Than Ever – 3 Barriers To Adoption An article looking at some significant reasons that prevent people from using collaboration tools to collaborate effectively within an organisation. Some further comments on the Beantin facebook page. Web customers care about tasks, not goals It’s all task based.