The Danosphere. » cool http://www.thedanosphere.com class TheDanosphere extends Dan implements Blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:50:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Elusive UX Designer [Vimeo] http://www.thedanosphere.com/2011/02/23/the-elusive-ux-designer-vimeo/ http://www.thedanosphere.com/2011/02/23/the-elusive-ux-designer-vimeo/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:05:37 +0000 Dan http://www.thedanosphere.com/?p=378 Been trying to post more frequently, so here’s some more awesome for your day! Sweet video from vimeo, which is an homage to UX Designers. I spend all day working as a UX Designer/Developer so I just had to post this.

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I performed these tests on a weekday around 4:40pm- I figured that’s when everyone would be browsing the web while awaiting the end of the day.

Summary:

Fastest: Linkedin.com

Slowest: Digg.com

Google.com – 0.7s – Control
Linkedin.com – 2.7s
Myspace.com – 2.8s
Facebook.com – 4.6s
Reddit.com – 4.6s
Stumbleupon.com – 6.1s
Twitter.com – 11.5s
Digg.com – 12s

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Google.com – 0.7s – Control

Linkedin.com – 2.7s

Myspace.com – 2.8s

Facebook.com – 4.6s

Reddit.com – 4.6s

Stumbleupon.com – 6.1s

Twitter.com – 11.5s

Digg.com – 12s

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Click Me

//STATiC – click it, you know you want to :)

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Life has been a little crazy balancing taking so many credit hours [20], wrapping up my final quarter at RIT, my day job, TCBN, and keeping my blog up to date but its almost 1am and I finally have time to post!

I found these pretty cool “load test” flash movies [a while ago] that serve as an awesome example of how much more efficient actionscript 3 is over actionscript 2. I am currently a huge AS2 junkie, but with my recent coursework in Flex and current project in AS3 based flash, I am getting more and more fond of it. There are some differences from AS2, don’t expect a point and click transition from one version of actionscript to the other. If you are familiar with object-oriented design in AS2 the move is nearly painless (off the top of my head: Document class, event handlers, and * var type [yes, *]).

Flash is here to stay, and it’s good to see that the language that powers it is maturing as well.

* Only run one load test at a time for accurate results

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