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.

Technology Imitates Art: The rise of the conversational interface

Conversational interfaces allows you to surface the same content you have on your existing channels, but in a way that is more user led.

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In AMP we trust

Jeremy breaks AMP down into its constituent parts so that we have a better understanding around the pros and cons of Google’s approach.

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On container queries.

An excellent piece from Ethan on the concept of container queries and why they’re important

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Annotation is now a web standard

Annotations is a new standard looking like a possible replacement for comments.

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Big Data Visualization with Meaning

Some wonderful visualisation examples in this article.

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Do responsive sites have to be so tall on mobile?

This is perhaps a hangover from approach a desktop first creative design and then stacking everything for the mobile version of the site.

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Optimising GIFs for the Web

In this article Ira takes us through ways that we can optimise a gif for fast loading.

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Code Smells in CSS Revisited

A follow up to a 2012 article on spotting bad code (not necessarily with your nose though)

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Most of the web really sucks if you have a slow connection

Web page bloat is becoming a major problem, so here are a few things to keep in mind to keep that down.

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Using HTTP/2 Responsibly: Adapting for Users

Sometimes it’s not a matter of just enabling http2 and be done with it.

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Mixed Content and Responsive Images

Sometimes https and non-https content will affect your work on the web, this is one of those occasions.

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Learning the Web Using Atomic Design

An overview from Ian Frost on how he’s come to learn how to build websites by going with Atomic Design first.

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Moving to HTTPS

Now is the time to move your site over to HTTPS! “But how?” I hear you ask, well, here’s a set of instructions for a number of different configurations.

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Summary of My Meeting with Google AMP Team after “Google may be stealing your mobile traffic” post

The team from AMP project take their lunch time out to set the record straight with a non-believer.

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A Step by Step Guide to the Auto-Placement Algorithm in CSS Grid

This tutorial talks you through the reasons why things do what they do so when they do it…. you will understand why.

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A practical guide to Progressive Web Apps for organisations who don’t know anything about Progressive Web Apps

Still one of the best things you can do to your website.

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Implementing “Save For Offline” with Service Workers

At the moment this is the best progressive enhancement things you can offer your users.

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HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point

Read why browsers are making it even more important now to go SSL.

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Evaluating Tools For Building a Component Library

Style Guides are all the range at the moment, but how do you go about choosing the right one?

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Free, faster.

Ethan takes a look into the “Free” template world of popular CMS — Wordrpress, Drupal and the like.

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