Posts Tagged ‘responsive web design’

I had the privilege of being interviewed in Justin Avery’s long-running RWD Weekly newsletter about the state of responsive design  10 years in. I weigh in on client expectations around responsive design, still unsolved responsive design challenges, and other things.

I wrote a chapter all about responsive design patterns for Smashing Magazine‘s The Mobile Book a few years ago. Now my chapter is rounded up with chapters from other great authors from other Smashing books. And the best news, you can […]

I recently got an email from a company embarking on a responsive redesign project. From the sounds of it, they’re looking to retrofit their existing site and get it out the door fast. Which sounds great, until I read this: […]

Mat Marquis explains the current status of element queries, which have now been rebranded as “container queries”. This is a big and necessary step for pattern-based design and development. We all just want to create components, drop them into any layout, […]

Stephanie Walter created some beautiful illustrations based on my post about responsive design strategies. I absolutely love the pooling water around the mobile screen in the retrofitting example, and love the layered shades of blue in the mobile-first example.

Really handy tips from Luke about multi-device trends and designing for a whole slew of screens.

In his article Obvious Always Wins, Luke Wroblewski warns of the dangers of sweeping links and actions under the rug. It’s challenging to find the room to expose important actions on constrained mobile screen sizes, but it’s necessary for designers to do so. A while back, […]

This is a fascinating discussion between Dan Mall, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Andy Clarke about the role of aesthetics in modern web design and development. This conversation is important as there’s still a bias that responsive design is responsible for bad […]

@benbrignell asked me to give 14 reasons why he should attend my upcoming responsive design workshop at UX London. So here are 14 reasons why you should attend one of my upcoming workshops: Unlimited pancakes New car smell Responsive design […]

Note: I’m going to start posting some of my email responses to people here on my blog. I think a lot of people’s questions are valuable and think they’re worthy of a broader discussion. And I hope the advice I’m […]

Disruption will only accelerate. The quantity and diversity of connected devices—many of which we haven’t imagined yet—will explode, as will the quantity and diversity of the people around the world who use them. Future friendly It’s been three and a […]

When discussing a pattern-based design workflow, one knee-jerk reaction I hear from visual designers is that a design system will stifle creativity, leaving everything looking homogeneous and bland. I think there is some validity to this concern, and this sentiment can’t […]

There’s three topics I avoid discussing: religion, politics, and responsive images. But now that the responsive images dust is settling, I figured it’s time to face the music and actually learn this stuff. So here’s how I’m going to write […]

I contributed some thoughts alongside Aaron Gustafson, Lara Kalbag, and others about why applying adaptive design techniques is increasingly essential to craft great multi-device Web experiences.

I chatted with the folks at Mashable about why responsive media sites tend to look similar. “It’s sort of the same way that all cars look more or less the same. There’s only so many ways you can design a […]

I had a wonderful time talking with Justin Avery about all sorts of topics around responsive web design. I could talk to that guy all day! I’m also super impressed by all the progress he’s made on the Responsive Design […]

There’s a conversation that crops up time to time again about the definition of responsive design and treating RWD as a goal unto itself. Has it evolved beyond Ethan Marcotte’s original definition? There are so many articles out there on […]

I chat with Greg Hickman about responsive strategy, process, and a whole lot more on the MobileMixed podcast.

Right now around 11 or 12% of the top 100,000 sites are responsive, and no doubt that number is slated to rise over the next few years. As the people in the depraved cat-skinning business say, “there’s more than one […]

I rounded up 25 useful responsive web design tools and resources for Net Magazine.

I’m happy to introduce ish. 2.0. For the uninitiated, ish. is yet another viewport resizing tool. It’s called “ish.” because it focuses on general ranges (small-ish. medium-ish. large-ish.), rather than popular device widths. It’s our jobs as web designers to […]

Earlier this year I had the tremendous opportunity to create a responsive mobile site for Entertainment Weekly. I was privileged to work with some ridiculously talented people on this project: Josh Clark was our fearless leader. He assembled the team, […]

I recently received this email from a startup: We’re a startup in San Francisco looking to launch a 5-page website this October. We would deliver all wireframes, web content, and design PSDs. We just need a front-end pro to develop […]

I had a blast talking about responsive navigation patterns with John Macpherson on the brand new Web Payload podcast.

Note: the following is a guest post by Jonathan Poma, the director of Digital at HOMAGE. HOMAGE is one of my favorite t-shirt stores, and I constantly get compliments on my Boomshakalaka t-shirt. As it happens, they recently launched a […]

Note: this piece was originally published on Net Magazine, who recently nuked about 10,000 articles when they moved over to Creative Bloq. In an effort to preserve the writing I did for them, I’m republishing those articles here on my […]

Note: this piece was originally published on Net Magazine, who recently nuked about 10,000 articles when they moved over to Creative Bloq. In an effort to preserve the writing I did for them, I’m republishing those articles here on my […]

Note: this piece was originally published on Net Magazine, who recently nuked about 10,000 articles when they moved over to Creative Bloq. In an effort to preserve the writing I did for them, I’m republishing those articles here on my […]

As we all know, media queries are responsive design’s secret sauce. Here are some considerations for crafting high-quality media queries: Let content determine breakpoints Treat layout as an enhancement Use major and minor breakpoints Use relative units Go beyond width […]

Think about the times you scroll on your mobile phone. Not necessarily on on the Web, but in general. Here are some common scrolling scenarios: Going Back in Time Going back in time is one of the most common mobile […]