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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 […]

  4. 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!

  5. 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 […]

  6. 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 […]

  7. 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.

  8. 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 […]

  9. 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 […]

  10. 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.

  11. 09 Feb, 2013

    Design Abstractions

  12. 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.

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 31 Jan, 2013

    Modern.ie

    This looks like a great tool from Microsoft to help developers wrestle legacy versions of IE.

  16. 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.

  17. 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 […]

  18. 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. […]

  19. 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.

  20. 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.