Responsive Design News

Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.

Best Practices For Hero Images

Ten elements to look for when you’re designing a large hero image for your site.

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What delayed my portfolio redesign for 3 years and how I finally launched it

If you’re thinking about redesigning your own portfolio then here are some key areas you should be considering

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The New ZURB, Design Insights and the Future of Design

Zurb, my favourite responsive framework, have just released their new website and it is MAGNIFICANT.

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Intelligent Tracking Prevention

Webkit are implementing features to stop 3rd party tracking across multiple sites.

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4 Things I Know About Pattern Libraries

Some very valuable lessons for anyone working on, or thinking about working on, pattern libraries.

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11 things I learned reading the flexbox spec

I guarantee that you’ll learn something new from these 11 tips.

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Learning CSS Grids

Learn the CSS Grid in ASCII… you know you want to!

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Anchors OK? Re-Assessing In-Page Links

While jump links have caused problems in the past, they can successfully be used to move users down long pages and directly to content, on any screen size.

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What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 60)

Dev Tools have had an overhaul (in Chrome Canary for now) and it’s now should be considered an invaluable tool on its own (if it wasn’t already before).

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Responsive Design for Motion

A great overview on how you can introduce one of the new media query recommendations — reduce motion (currently available in Webkit)

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Financial Times increases engagement with personalisation, speed

Several months into the relaunch of the FT.com site the results are in…. faster websites are better for business

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Going offline

Ethan talks about the approach of going offline with his own site.

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Questioning Container Queries

Paul covers off, in a lot more detail than this description, the top three reasons why he thinks that Container Queries are not needed.

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Mobile, Small, Portrait, Slow, Interlace, Monochrome, Coarse, Non-Hover, First

An overview on some of the lesser known Level 4 Media Queries.

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Back from Australia

A quick thank you for your patience over the past 4 weeks while I took some time off to visit family and friends back in Australia. Rather than try and share my time between laptop and people, like I would normally do, I tried to spend all of it with people.

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You Don’t Get AMP

If your pondering the point behind AMP then this article will help you understand more of the benefits past “a faster website”.

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Case Study: My First Practical CSS Grid Layout

The takeaway from this exercise is that CSS Grid Layout is awesome, and we are barely scratching the surface of its capabilities

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Empowering our editorial teams to impact page performance

An example of how you can put the onus of performance back onto the content creators by making them aware of the effect they are having in (almost) real-time.

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Self-driving cars in the browser

When I say responsive we think media queries. These days the term can mean so many things outside the traditional mental model of responsive web design.

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A simple design to dev workflow

This approach to design to dev is wonderful in its simplicity. In my day job I’m looking to do something similar so this will work good as a suite of tools and example workflow to get started.

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