Vol_9.22.25

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Gene Crawford
September 22, 2025

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12 Steps for Usability Testing: Plan, Run, Analyze, Report
User testing is straightforward, but it involves many moving parts, making it best to have a systematic process for planning and executing studies, as well as ensuring follow-up.
https://www.uxtigers.com/post/user-testing

Many years on the job and I still don't get it. https://daverupert.com/2025/09/you-cant-drink-coffee-on-a-running-horse/

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-value-possibilities/

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog
https://natalie.sh/posts/bluesky-comments/

15 ways your website loads from Google Search and how to measure each one
How to improve page load time for Google visitors using Signed Exchanges
https://www.pawelpokrywka.com/p/different-methods-of-prefetching

Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact
UX Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion. https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/skipping-alignment-leads-to-zero-impact-ux

You no longer need JavaScript
So much of the web these days is ruined by the bloat that is modern JavaScript frameworks. React apps that take several seconds to load. NextJS sites that throw random hydration errors. The node_modules folder that takes up gigabytes on your hard drive.
https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/

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