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The loading experience is the product

A scrub film on my products page is 8,310,726 bytes. Its poster frame is 42,046 bytes, and the poster is the only one of the two most visitors ever see. What the research on skeletons and spinners actually says, what the Core Web Vitals actually measure, and the layout shift my own reveal animation was covering for.

Wireframes that survive contact with the build

Most wireframes get approved and then quietly lose the argument to the browser, because they encoded no constraint the build could not ignore. Here is what mine have to carry: the empty state, the error state, the too-long state, the width the layout really changes at, and a short list of things I refuse to decide.

Mobile-first, one thumb

Mobile first design, as I actually build it: finger-sized targets, Pointer Events instead of mouse events, and nothing important hidden behind a hover. Then the morning my own audit failed a component that was the right size all along, because the test drove a narrow desktop window and called it a phone.

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