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14islands
October 01, 2015
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Responsive Web Design Recap
Responsive Web Design has been around for a while. How about a recap?
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Transcript
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RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN RECAP
WHAT
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Design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and
environment based on screen size, platform and orientation.
WHY
There are more devices connected than people in the world
today. http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2014/10/06/NY30877
http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/more-cell-phones-than-toilets More people have access to mobile than to running
water and toothbrushes.
Get your content ready to go anywhere because it’s going
to go everywhere. - http://bradfrost.com/blog/web/for-a-future-friendly-web/
IT’S ABOUT CONTENT-FIRST
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Content_is_like_water.png
IT’S ABOUT BEING FUTURE FRIENDLY
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brad_frost/7387824246/in/set-72157630163121422
IT’S ABOUT CONSISTENCY
http://opensignal.com/reports/fragmentation.php (2012)
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SO WHAT CAN WE DO?
DO NOTHING OPTION 1
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BUILD AN APP OPTION 2
http://xkcd.com/1174/
http://appvswebsite.com/
DO BOTH (IF YOU CAN)
BUILD A SEPARATE MOBILE SITE OPTION 3
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GO RESPONSIVE OPTION 4
HOW
4 GIFS TO WARM UP http://blog.froont.com/9-basic-principles-of-responsive-web-design/
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3 STEPS RECIPE
1. FLUID WIDTH 2. FLEXIBLE MEDIA 3. MEDIA QUERIES
ADAPTIVE VS FLUID EXAMPLE
MAKING IT FLUID TARGET / CONTEXT = RESULT
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300px
300px 940px
300px 940px 300/940 = 0.319148936
300px 940px 300/940 = 0.319148936 31.9148936%
1. FLUID WIDTH 2. FLEXIBLE MEDIA 3. MEDIA QUERIES
LET MEDIA TAKE MORE AVAILABLE SPACE
1. FLUID WIDTH 2. FLEXIBLE MEDIA 3. MEDIA QUERIES
Print Monochrome Width Height Aspect Ratio Orientation And more…
Print Monochrome Width Height Aspect Ratio Orientation And more… @media
(min-width: 600px) { <something awesome here> }
LOAD ME NOT YET NOT YET
LOAD ME NOT YET NOT YET
LOAD ME NOT YET NOT YET
LOAD ME LOAD ME LOAD ME
Know your Breakpoints
Breakpoints. Break. Points. Points at which things break in your
design. http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/theinbetween “
Start small.
Increase the width.
Identify problems.
Add a breakpoint and fix it.
Keep going!
The importance of MOBILE FIRST
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IGNORING MOBILE FIRST WILL PROBABLY BITE YOU LATER
ITS OK TO DESIGN IT IN THE BROWSER
UX Design Code
The web’s greatest strength, is often seen as a limitation,
as a defect. http://alistapart.com/article/dao
It is the nature of the web to be flexible.
http://alistapart.com/article/dao
It should be our role as designers and developers to
embrace this flexibility, and produce pages which, by being flexible, are accessible to all. http://alistapart.com/article/dao
The journey begins by letting go of control, and becoming
flexible. http://alistapart.com/article/dao
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