Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
UC San Diego's move to responsive web design
Search
Sponsored
·
SiteGround - Reliable hosting with speed, security, and support you can count on.
→
bpollak
September 06, 2012
Technology
2
110
UC San Diego's move to responsive web design
bpollak
September 06, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by bpollak
See All by bpollak
Guidelines for a Campus Website Refresh
bpollak
0
81
UC San Diego Lync and OneDrive for Business Rollout
bpollak
0
140
Take Your CMS to the Cloud to Lighten the Load
bpollak
0
120
Web Accessibility at UC San Diego
bpollak
0
86
Campus Web Steering Committee (November meeting)
bpollak
0
120
Mobile optimizing your legacy applications
bpollak
0
73
Website Refresh Tips & Strategies
bpollak
0
610
This mobile thing will never catch on
bpollak
0
84
Responsive Design UCSD System Administrator Meeting
bpollak
2
140
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
組織全体で実現する標準監視設計
yuobayashi
2
480
情シスのための生成AI実践ガイド2026 / Generative AI Practical Guide for Business Technology 2026
glidenote
0
190
us-east-1 に障害が起きた時に、 ap-northeast-1 にどんな影響があるか 説明できるようになろう!
miu_crescent
PRO
13
4.2k
クラウド × シリコンの Mashup - AWS チップ開発で広がる AI 基盤の選択肢
htokoyo
2
180
マネージャー版 "提案のレベル" を上げる
konifar
22
15k
複数クラスタ運用と検索の高度化:ビズリーチにおけるElastic活用事例 / ElasticON Tokyo2026
visional_engineering_and_design
0
130
[JAWSDAYS2026]Who is responsible for IAM
mizukibbb
0
390
スクリプトの先へ!AIエージェントと組み合わせる モバイルE2Eテスト
error96num
0
150
When an innocent-looking ListOffsets Call Took Down Our Kafka Cluster
lycorptech_jp
PRO
0
120
DevOpsエージェントで実現する!! AWS Well-Architected(W-A) を実現するシステム設計 / 20260307 Masaki Okuda
shift_evolve
PRO
3
540
マルチアカウント環境でSecurity Hubの運用!導入の苦労とポイント / JAWS DAYS 2026
genda
0
440
[JAWSDAYS2026][D8]その起票、愛が足りてますか?AWSサポートを味方につける、技術的「ラブレター」の書き方
hirosys_
3
120
Featured
See All Featured
Measuring & Analyzing Core Web Vitals
bluesmoon
9
780
Helping Users Find Their Own Way: Creating Modern Search Experiences
danielanewman
31
3.1k
The untapped power of vector embeddings
frankvandijk
2
1.6k
Leading Effective Engineering Teams in the AI Era
addyosmani
9
1.7k
Performance Is Good for Brains [We Love Speed 2024]
tammyeverts
12
1.5k
RailsConf 2023
tenderlove
30
1.4k
Creating an realtime collaboration tool: Agile Flush - .NET Oxford
marcduiker
35
2.4k
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
mongodb
49
9.9k
The Mindset for Success: Future Career Progression
greggifford
PRO
0
270
A Guide to Academic Writing Using Generative AI - A Workshop
ks91
PRO
0
230
Site-Speed That Sticks
csswizardry
13
1.1k
実際に使うSQLの書き方 徹底解説 / pgcon21j-tutorial
soudai
PRO
199
73k
Transcript
UC San Diego’s move to Responsive Web Design
Brett Pollak @brettcpollak #mwfcon @campusweboffice
The CWO
People love these things
In about 2 months… …there will be more connected phones
than people in the world
5 years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist… …now it generates
$100 Billion per year
The iPhone is bigger than Microsoft
By the fall of 2013 more tablets will be sold
than PC’s
UCSD’s History with MWF…
Why we chose MWF Find a framework
None
Student Affairs IT Academic Affairs IT Housing & Dining IT
Libraries IT Admin Computing Academic Computing Student Affairs IT Framework that required data feeds had downsides
Student Affairs IT Academic Affairs IT Housing & Dining IT
Libraries IT Admin Computing Academic Computing Student Affairs IT
None
We launched m.ucsd.edu
Replace the App Replace the App
iOS App: powered by m.ucsd.edu
m.ucsd.edu iPhone App
iPad App
Android App: powered by m.ucsd.edu
uxt.ucsd.edu
None
What about all the CMS content?
Piloted with the Libraries
Courtesy: Brad Frost
2009 22 Screens Visits to campus home page 2012 523
Screens
Device Fragmentation 3,997 different Android Devices
Device Fragmentation 3,997 different Android Devices
People smarter than us we’re tackling this problem…
The dude even wrote a book about it!
Resources RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN By Ethan Marcotte alistapart.com mediaqueri.es FRAMEWORKS
Foundation3 Twitter Bootstrap HTML5 Boilerplate
.HTML (structure) .CSS (layout) The solution is based off existing
web technologies
CSS3 @media + Fluid Layouts Media Queries
Fluid images & media
None
One website that works on all devices
One website that works on all devices
None
What about the Mobile Web Framework?
You want me to make THIS responsive??
None
Responsive design for Websites & Apps Mobile Framework when RWD
won’t work
None
RWD Works for apps too
None
RWD Downsides
Images Devices with smaller resolutions still need to download the
full image
RESS Responsive Design + Server Side Components Offload some of
the work to the server…
The Idea is to: Deliver certain components based on the
device, rather than loading all at once for every device. RWD .js .jpg .php
None
1.- Use a Responsive Web Design framework as the primary
way to deliver websites & web apps 2.- Use a Mobile Framework to augment when responsive design won’t work 3.-Deliver the frameworks through a central host and allow other IT units to leverage the capabilities Our Philosophy…