Topic: User Experience – Ctrl blog

The web is overrun by pop-ups and blockers haven’t worked in years

2022-02-22T13:07:00Z

Virtually all web browsers have a built-in feature to suppress an annoyance from the early days of the web: pop-ups. However, the pop-up blockers of yesteryear no longer work on today’s web. There are pop-ups everywhere gating our entry into virtually all websites. What happened to the pop-up blocker?

Don’t preorder ebooks from Packt Publishing

2021-07-20T22:57:00Z

Two months ago, I preordered an interesting-looking ebook title from Packt Publishing. Neither the post-purchase experience nor the final product lived up to my expectations.

Please don’t make me choose a username

2021-02-20T15:25:00Z

I hate username fields in registration forms. The usernames I want are, of course, already taken. Many services won’t let you change your username later, so you might get stuck with it. Who wants to settle for a name they don’t like? Just please don’t make me choose a username.

Why pay for Grammarly when you’re the one doing the work?

2019-11-01T12:50:00Z

Grammarly is a grammar and language analysis and correction service. It’s essentially providing those red and green squiggly lines that highlight your writing-mistakes in your favorite text editor. However, it’s offered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) that can somehow afford non-stop ad-campaigns all over the web.

Progressive JPEGs make a meaningful impact on perceived performance

2019-06-26T05:22:00Z

The JPEG image file format, one of the most common image formats on the web, can be encoded with one of two decoding profiles: baseline (sequential details) and progressive (additive details.) The latter variant offers many advantages on the web over the former variant; especially for website visitors with low-bandwidth or high-latency.