Every image is unique, so are website visitors. In a perfect world, we would adapt images to be "just right" for all users, i.e., perfectly cropped with responsive dimensions, correct encoding settings, and optimal quality in the most suitable format.
See this example of a photo of a cat:
Short videos of animated GIFs are spreading like wildfire around the web, especially in media and news sites, and people frequently share animated GIFs on social apps. However, because those GIFs are not optimized, their sizes are huge, consuming heavy bandwidth and slowing down page loads. Also, resizing and transforming a large number of animated GIFs, one by one, to match the graphic design of your site or app is a lengthy, CPU-intensive process.
With the right platform and tools, software developers can code ideas into useful products and services. The same scenario applies to graphic and UI designers, who are now equipped with a wealth of sophisticated tools, e.g., Sketch, Figma, and InVision, with which to create first-rate app designs.
Atom Tickets is an award-winning, robust movie-ticketing app that serves more than 20,000 screens across cinemas and theaters in the United States, enabling moviegoers to search for films, invite friends, buy tickets, and preorder concessions online. To its users, Atom Tickets is also a convenient, catch-all repository for their messages, payments, and tickets.
Many modern homepages feature a slider or carousel to rotate images of, for example, offers from or characters of the brand. Have you noticed that homepages are slow to load, though? The size of the images on sliders could be to blame.
Using alternative text (alt text) in HTML has long been a common SEO best practice, which also works well for accessibility. This post shows you how to programmatically generate, save, and use alt text for your images on Cloudinary.
When was the last time you bought a product without looking at its images or videos? The chance of customers buying a product increases by an order of magnitude when you effectively showcase your brand and products with images and videos. And when you have customers interacting with your brand across different channels and devices, you must meet them everywhere as they go from discovery to purchase.
Daily is an open-source browser-extension that delivers curated software development-related news (dev news for short) to your new tab. Around the clock, we gather and rank articles from 200-plus unique sources, keeping developers in the loop with relevant news in their field. All told, we serve content to over 35,000 developers worldwide.
Gaurav Pant, Chief Insights Officer of Incisiv, recently shared his outlook for the retail industry with the Cloudinary team, specifically as it relates to digital retail transformation.
You only have to be a consumer to know that digital has dramatically transformed the consumer buyer journey. It stopped being linear and location-based a long time ago. So what can retailers do to deliver the kinds of digital experiences that today’s consumers have come to expect?
