Topic: User Experience – Ctrl blog

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.

Link blog archive pages together to avoid navigational dead-ends

2018-11-28T19:54:00Z

Many blog publishing platforms will generate yearly or monthly archive pages that lists the posts published in that period. However, most platforms creates dated archive pages as isolated islands and navigational dead-ends with no obvious path forward for visitors.