Page weight matters An Article by Chris Zacharias blog.chriszacharias.com Many of us are fortunate to live in high bandwidth regions, but there are still large portions of the world that do not. By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets. Speed is a feature performance
Like designing things for the first time Gordon Murray insists on keeping experience 'at the back of your mind, not the front' and to work from first principles when designing. For instance, in designing a component such as a suspension wishbone, 'it's all too easy - and the longer you're in design the easier it is - to say, I know all about wishbones, this is how it's going to look because that's what wishbones look like.' But if you want to make a step forward, if you're looking for ways of making it much better and much lighter, than you have to go right back to load path analysis. It is like designing things for the first time, rather than the nth time. Nigel Cross & Anita Clayburn Cross, Winning by Design: The Methods of Gordon Murray The eyes of a travelerZen Mind, Beginner's MindTotal collaboration experience