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Mobile ad UX: how to use ads and alienate people
July 27, 2017, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
As a follow up to our previous article on the rising prevalence of ad blockers we thought it would be useful to review the types of ad that are likely to deliver a poor user experience, annoy your visitors, and sink your conversion rates. Ads, even at the best of times, aren’t particularly liked by... Read More
How to choose media query breakpoints to best support all connected devices
June 14, 2017, by Stephen Delaney
Håkon Wium Lie first sketched out media queries in his initial CSS proposal in 1994. Unfortunately, we had to wait another 8 years till it became a recommended W3C standard in June 2012. When browsers started to widely support media queries, we thought that all our problems were solved. We had the solution to the evolving... Read More
JavaScript server-side rendering with device detection
April 13, 2017, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
React and other JavaScript frameworks have frequently come under fire for not being suited to mobile. Hence mobile-first was a cornerstone of the Angular 2 rewrite. And despite React’s popularity, it still attracts the wrong kind of attention regarding mobile. To my friends on the React team: you are on the hook until there's a... Read More
Mobile World Congress 2017 summary
March 6, 2017, by Pawel Piejko
As Mobile World Congress 2017 came to an end, we are sharing a short summary of what we learned and discovered during this year’s show. We had plenty of inspiring conversations with some of the top minds in the industry about today’s device landscape. Here is a quick glimpse into the hardware that was exhibited... Read More
Why your content doesn’t work on mobile
December 14, 2016, by Martin Clancy
Anyone involved in developing content for the mobile web is probably already aware of the huge performance challenges on mobile. There is now widespread acceptance that we should budget for performance just as much as we should for design, and functionality. Perhaps even more so. So why are many websites still failing users by serving... Read More
