The Shift to Mobile

A talk I gave at DevCon.

Developing websites that adapt to mobile can be tricky. Here's what you need to know.

Transcript

1. Developing for Mobile
2. The Problems it’s different it’s harder it’s challenging it’s a new way of thinking “OMG the screen is so small”
3. The Problems it’s different it’s harder it’s challenging it’s a new way of thinking “OMG the screen is so small” Not really problems
4. Thinking We’re going to need to change the way we think
5. Thinking We’re going to need to change the way we work
6. mobile-first progressive enhancement media queries respond.js
7. mobile first encourages you to focus on content
8. mobile first encourages you to think before you code
9. Workflow here’s what we should be doing...
10. think mobile first content first focus on core features develop for the lowest common factor AND THEN progressively enhance with media queries
11. What is your main objective?
12. What is your main objective?
13. Figure it out and never forget it
14. the code “the absence of a media query is in fact the first media query” All styles here will target screens with a width more than 480px;
15. The End