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.

Responsive web design tips from BBC News

The BBC are doing some great work moving towards  a full responsive site. Their coverage of the the Olympics was responsive and they’ve identified some great approaches and work arounds.

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Responsive Web ABC

A-B-C, it’s easy as 1-2-3, something something, doe ray me.  A nice look at an A-Z overview of responsive design

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Growing Mobile Revenue by 258%

Some more great figures on how going responsive can improve your conversion rates

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Biggest Mistake in Responsive Design

Rosé field media asked Sara what she thought about mistakes in RWD in the lead up to her two day course in October. We also asked Sara some questions about RWD a little while ago.

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Carousel-Based Web Design

Stephen Hay takes a fun poke at carousels in the responsive web world.

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A More Flexible Development Framework

If your a fan of Frameworks (don’t be embarrassed, I am too) then it’s worth reading some of the pitfalls when using their generic classes.  Further to Colm’s thoughts these days Foundation comes with a series of variables that allow you to control the CSS rather than over-ride it, hopefully that helps some of his […]

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Responsive web design tips from BBC News

The BBC are doing some great work moving towards a full responsive site. Their coverage of the the Olympics was responsive and they’ve identified some great approaches and work arounds.

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Ben Callahan on Responsive Web Design and Broken Processes

A great interview with Ben from the guys at QCat. We originally ran another similar interview last December.

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Smashing Conf: Real Life Responsive Design

Heard of The Guardian? Andy Hume talks about the real life approach to a large scale responsive site that already has a mobile version of the site. Some great tips on a mobile first and performance.

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Updates to CSS Grid Layout

The CSS Working Group have published an updated to the CSS Grid Layout Spec.

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Responsive Images Meeting Notes

These are a great notes from Shane covering an entires day worth of discussions in Paris earlier this week. There’s sure to be a few concise blog posts following up, but there’s some great links contained within here.

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How we built the website for responsive.io

A few weeks ago we ran Responsive.io as a featured responsive image resource. This week we came across (actually they emailed me) their blog article about how they approached the build of the site. I was excited to see that they started off inside IA Writer getting the most imprtant parts right, the content, before […]

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The How-To Guide to Responsive Email Design [Infographic]

Here’s an infographic to go with this weeks article/tutorial for media queries in html emails. Did you know people look at their phones an average of 150 times a day, and 80% of those people will delete the email if it doesn’t look good on mobile?

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Responsive Image Container – blog

Yoav takes a really detailed look into an option he has put forward for a responsive image format rather than use a HTML markup solution. Is it perfect? Probably not, but please take look through and feed back on what’s wrong with it.

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How to use the right media queries in HTML email

If you’re still coding HTML emails by hand… I’m sorry.   But hey, I feel your pain having gone through many hours on this email template. This article talks about a quirk with Outlook.com on IE9 and how to overcome it.

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Notes on 'It's a Write/Read Mobile Web'

Although LukeW’s talk at the Smashing Conference was focussed on a Write/Read web it touched on a few important points. Many implementations of responsive design I see focus purely on how the content is going to be consumed, and less so on how we can contribute to that content. At the very least our contact […]

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Opinions on img srcset?

A great discussion in the Chromium.org forums about Blink Development and the ideas around implementing something similar (or the same) as Web-Kits src-set.

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Responsive Maps With D3

This is a great short tutorial on how to get responsive maps working with D3.js

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Responsive Pain Points

This article takes a look at four common areas you might experience issues and how you might approach them.

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Redesigning SitePoint: the Design Process Insider View

Sitepoint have undergone a responsive redesign and a huge change to their brand. The new site is very clean and spacious, very “flat”. This article gives you a brief insight into the design process.

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