Link archive: January 31st, 2024

SpeedCurve | The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Tammy takes a deep dive into our brains to examine the psychology of web performance. It opens with this:

If you don’t consider time a crucial usability factor, you’re missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience.

I wish that more UX designers understood that!

The Web Component Success Story | jakelazaroff.com

The power of interoperability:

Web components won’t take web development by storm, or show us the One True Way to build websites. They don’t need to dethrone JavaScript frameworks. We probably won’t even all learn how to write them!

What web components will do — at least, I hope — is let us collectively build a rich ecosystem of dynamic components that work with any web stack. No more silos. That’s the web component success story.