Meanwhile, on the Internet...
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03 Mar, 2013
Playing with Game Console Browsers
Here’s Anna Debenham with an excellent deck about browsers on game console browsers. Absolutely great stuff.
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03 Mar, 2013
Homage Responsive Site
I didn’t know Homage, one of my favorite t-shirt websites, went responsive. Throw another e-commerce example on the pile.
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25 Feb, 2013
Search with Filters Responsive Design Pattern
Brad and Dave and I were sitting around after InControl talking about design patterns that hadn’t been explored as much. Dave mentioned “Search with Filters” as an example. There can be quite a lot of UI involved in a search […]
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25 Feb, 2013
Death to Bullshit Illustrated
This is pretty much the coolest thing ever. Illustrator Nozzman took my Death to Bullshit talk and illustrated it. It’s beautiful!
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23 Feb, 2013
Go to Artifact Conference
I’m really really really excited for Artifact Conf. I’m as excited as I was for the first BDConf. Here’s why. Before the first Breaking Conference, a lot of ridiculously smart people thinking about a lot of important things regarding the […]
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20 Feb, 2013
iA Summit Responsive Design Workshop
I’ll be doing a full-day responsive web design workshop at iA Summit in Baltimore on April 3rd. I’m super excited to dive in deep to a lot of the challenges around responsive design, and I’m also super excited to see […]
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12 Feb, 2013
No More Mobile
When people use the word “mobile” Are they talking about device type, small screens, low bandwidth, device capabilities or people in the park? Great read about how the words we use influence the direction things go.
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11 Feb, 2013
Responsive Typography
This is some clever shit from Marko Dugonjić (@markodugonjic). The camera detects how close your face is to the screen and adjusts the font size accordingly. While maybe not the most practical thing in the world, it certainly gets you […]
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10 Feb, 2013
REMux: An Experimental Approach to Responsive Web Design
This is a novel (and bizarre) approach to responsive layouts. Instead of using percentages, it uses rem units. Here’s an example of it in action. I’m not a fan of relying so heavy on Javascript to handle layout, and I’m […]
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10 Feb, 2013
Where To Start
Here’s some great advice from Trent Walton. Consider responsiveness from the beginning, shift your mentality and your process, and rethink every aspect of how you approach content, design and development.
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09 Feb, 2013
Design Abstractions
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09 Feb, 2013
You Can’t Create a Button
Nicholas Zakas discusses the dangers of relying on Javascript to make non-link, non-button elements interactive. If you expect the user to interact with something, then you need to use either a link or button.
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09 Feb, 2013
Master Mobile Navigation
Aaron Gustafson wrote a cover feature for Net Magazine rounding up a great many responsive navigation patterns. See also: Responsive Navigation Patterns and Complex Navigation Patterns for Responsive Web Design
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01 Feb, 2013
Web Performance 101: An opinionated guide to the 22 links that every developer should read
Web performance maven Joshua Bixby provides a roundup of resources to check out to learn more about site performance.
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31 Jan, 2013
Modern.ie
This looks like a great tool from Microsoft to help developers wrestle legacy versions of IE.
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31 Jan, 2013
Responsive Web Design and Diamonds with Brad Frost
I had a great time talking about process, the importance of project managers, responsive design and diamonds on the Breaking Development Conference podcast.
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30 Jan, 2013
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Great post by Bret Jankord about the meaning of popular terms that get flung around a lot: progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, Mobile First, responsive web design, RESS and more. This clarification is extremely welcome as I see a whole lot […]
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28 Jan, 2013
An inside peek into the Polygon design process
A wonderful, in-depth look at the Polygon design process. In case you didn’t know Polygon is one of the best instances of a responsive design out there. Beautiful, pretty fast all things considered, and chock full of really great content. […]
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27 Jan, 2013
Technological terror – Boagworld
So apparently my name is Brad Forest now. Regardless of the translation typo, I’m thankful that Paul talked about my Creating a Mobile-Frist Responsive Design on HTML5 Rocks as a good read to learn more about creating considerate responsive experiences.
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26 Jan, 2013
Lessons from the Facebook Mobile Website Team
A good look behind the curtains at one of the largest mobile sites on the planet. Lots of nice little takeaways here, but the real takeaway is that there’s no silver bullet to device diversity.