Responsively Responsive

Slide 1

Slide 1 text

RESPONSIVELY RESPONSIVE @htmlboy @martuishere

Slide 2

Slide 2 text

¡HOLA!

Slide 3

Slide 3 text

We are Javier & Marta We are also @htmlboy & @martuishere

Slide 4

Slide 4 text

We work at Swwweet.com We work mostly for our cats.

Slide 5

Slide 5 text

WE DESIGN WEBSITES

Slide 6

Slide 6 text

WE DESIGN WEBSITES RESPONSIVE

Slide 7

Slide 7 text

We’ve made every mistake over the past two years.

Slide 8

Slide 8 text

Adaptive non-ﬂuid layouts Responsive as an add-on Mobile as an afterthought Ignoring real devices

Slide 9

Slide 9 text

We’ve learned our lessons the hardest possible way.

Slide 10

Slide 10 text

Organizing media queries Best use of pre-processors Navigation patterns Serving appropriate images

Slide 11

Slide 11 text

Organizing media queries Best use of pre-processors Navigation patterns Serving appropriate images (not really)

Slide 12

Slide 12 text

Our work gets better as we learn all this. Or so we hope.

Slide 13

Slide 13 text

But we’ve struggled with one particular thing...

Slide 14

Slide 14 text

WORKFLOW

Slide 15

Slide 15 text

A B

Slide 16

Slide 16 text

Our old workﬂow: mockups code wireframes

Slide 17

Slide 17 text

This is known as “waterfall” development. Because you’d want to put them in a barrel and throw them over a waterfall. Mike Monteiro · Design Is a Job

Slide 18

Slide 18 text

A B pain

Slide 19

Slide 19 text

Our shoehorned workﬂow: sketches visuals prototype

Slide 20

Slide 20 text

A B

Slide 21

Slide 21 text

It wasn’t quite working, we needed something better…

Slide 22

Slide 22 text

RESPONSIVELY RESPONSIVE

Slide 23

Slide 23 text

Workﬂows need ﬂexibility as much as websites do.

Slide 24

Slide 24 text

A B

Slide 25

Slide 25 text

A WARNING

Slide 26

Slide 26 text

No content

Slide 27

Slide 27 text

There’s no perfect workﬂow, you have to go and explore for yourself.

Slide 28

Slide 28 text

The time of neatly organized process charts and workﬂows is behind us. Building for the web has become a journey with inﬁnite potential for forks and bumps in the road. Let’s make sure that our process and organization ready us for what lies ahead. Trent Walton · bit.ly/responsively_1

Slide 29

Slide 29 text

START WITH THE CONTENT Step #1

Slide 30

Slide 30 text

no, really no, really

Slide 31

Slide 31 text

START WITH THE CONTENT

Slide 32

Slide 32 text

No more lorem ipsum! Make a content inventory Create any content you need

Slide 33

Slide 33 text

No more lorem ipsum! Make a content inventory Create any content you need

Slide 34

Slide 34 text

What do the users want to accomplish? What do we have to offer them? Why would they complete this task?

Slide 35

Slide 35 text

Prioritize that content. Post-it notes are great for this!

Slide 36

Slide 36 text

No content

Slide 37

Slide 37 text

Discuss with your clients, and be prepared to change everything.

Slide 38

Slide 38 text

Conversations always produce better designs

Slide 39

Slide 39 text

JUMP INTO HTML Step #2

Slide 40

Slide 40 text

Static pictures aren’t websites. And neither are static grey boxes.

Slide 41

Slide 41 text

Wireframe in the browser, simply labelling boxes to their content.

Slide 42

Slide 42 text

Go from this:

Slide 43

Slide 43 text

To this: Logo Main article Article Article

Slide 44

Slide 44 text

Start mobile ﬁrst and build the rest of the layouts from there.

Slide 45

Slide 45 text

Logo Main article Article Navigation Article Article

Slide 46

Slide 46 text

WORK THE VISUALS Step #3

Slide 47

Slide 47 text

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic? Oliver Reichestein · bit.ly/responsively_2

Slide 48

Slide 48 text

Always start with the basics: pick your fonts, scale, colors.

Slide 49

Slide 49 text

Design visual languages that you can take further than mockups.

Slide 50

Slide 50 text

A small set of visual assets can go a long way.

Slide 51

Slide 51 text

Styletil.es Style tiles

Slide 52

Slide 52 text

They are not a “deliverable”. They are an exploration tool. Abstraction can be difﬁcult. Style tiles are great, but:

Slide 53

Slide 53 text

Style tiles bit.ly/responsively_3

Slide 54

Slide 54 text

Regardless of any particular process or tool we may choose, it’s interesting to note that our visual design explorations are now happening alongside the research and ideation phases undertaken by our UX colleagues. Having front-end developers be part of the same conversation, helps massively too. Paul Lloyd · bit.ly/responsively_3

Slide 55

Slide 55 text

No content

Slide 56

Slide 56 text

No content

Slide 57

Slide 57 text

On what’s best for your brand On what’s best for your content On what’s best for your user Base all your design decisions

Slide 58

Slide 58 text

Translate this visual language into your prototype. Yay, a website!

Slide 59

Slide 59 text

BE PREPARED TO CHANGE EVERYTHING

Slide 60

Slide 60 text

BE PREPARED TO CHANGE EVERYTHING BE FLEXIBLE

Slide 61

Slide 61 text

BE PREPARED TO CHANGE EVERYTHING BE FLEXIBLE

Slide 62

Slide 62 text

RESPONSIVELY RESPONSIVE Step #4

Slide 63

Slide 63 text

prototyping phase may change accordingly to your typographic decisions and visual decisions (grids, etc). Responsively responsive: The media queries you set at the

Slide 64

Slide 64 text

not work well across a variety of devices or conditions. The colors/sizes you chose might Responsively responsive:

Slide 65

Slide 65 text

tons of images (i.e. band width), and you might need to ﬁnd something else that you can replicate with CSS. Your visual assets might need Responsively responsive:

Slide 66

Slide 66 text

If your beautiful design requires 400 HTTP requests and weighs 10MB, it's not designed for the web.

Slide 67

Slide 67 text

All these changes are OK! The web is alive, you don’t have to be afraid.

Slide 68

Slide 68 text

Don’t work in hermetic silos, best products come from collaboration.

Slide 69

Slide 69 text

content strategists designers developers REAL AWESOMENESS

Slide 70

Slide 70 text

satisﬁes all the user’s needs is easy and pleasant to use responds quickly in any context A good site is only good when it