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.

In Defense Of Rem Units

Designing In The Transition To A Multi-Device World

A wonderful opinion piece that dives deeply into the ‘design’ issues of todays web, moving towards designing in the browser.

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You like apples?

This article takes a look at the changes that were made to O’Neill clothing website.  They monitored the  online sales over a 3 week period, then made the site responsive and monitored it for another 3 weeks. The results are outstanding!

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Where to Start

Trent Walton from Paraval takes provides some great tips for getting started with responsive design.

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Responsive grid systems; a solution?

Harry Roberts takes a really good look at what is lacking in todays grid systems and explains how he is overcoming them with his very own inuit.css.

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Google Just Blasted Away The Wall Between Desktop And Mobile Ads

Google look like they’re dumping the difference between desktop and mobile when it comes to AdWords. As the largest revenue stream for Google this is a move which reinforces what most of us already know, that mobile is the future.

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An inside peek into the Polygon design process

Polygon was featured as one of the best 2012 responsive sites in our interview series. This article takes a look through the process, how they came up with the design and how they solved their content problems

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Responsive Web Design Leaves Me Wanting

Noah takes a stab at responsive designs being too flat. He’s not trolling so much as challenging designers to come up with beautiful, immersive sites executed with perfection in every browser.

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UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design

Codrops usually come up with content for our tutorials area but this week they’ve turned their attention more towards strategy instead.

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Responsive Mistakes (a mini-series)

David is one of those really smart guys that knows tons of stuff about responsive design, so when he gives you some tips and warnings it pays to sit up and take note.

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Retina Ready Images and Responsive Web Design

Implementing Off-Canvas Navigation For A Responsive Website

A step by step guide from David Bushell on how to implement an off canvas navigation pattern into your website. What is great about this article is that he starts off with the plain HTML and takes you through the full journey, including some of the mistakes that you’re likely to make.  Make sure you […]

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Creating Responsive Websites with Photo Backgrounds

This is a great post if you want to see some examples of great work with responsive full screen image backgrounds, but if you wanted to learn how to do it yourself I suggest you’re better off going to Backstretch and implementing it yourself.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected

Another article from the folk at Smashing Magazine. This time it’s Ben Gremillion who is looking at the vast array of devices that we are dealing with these days and how our content needs to adapt across them all.

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Responsive Web Design: Using Fonts Responsively

The Next Step in the Evolution of Responsive Web Design: Responsivity Analysis

When I saw the title of this post I thought we were going to get some techniques for pulling through analytics about goal conversions and events in Google Analytics. It’s not. It is a call for a new position as a responsive design analyst. But do we need a new position, or have the user […]

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11 USEFUL CSS CODE SNIPPETS FOR RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN

Gonzo the Great (love that name) has come up with a must read list of the important and useful snippets with responsive design. I had previously not even thought about the automatic line-breaks for css3.

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A Comparison of Methods for Building Mobile-Optimized Websites

This article looks at the performance difference between responsive web design and a mobile specific website.

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Responsive web design Zen gardening

Rick Monro calls for a responsive design zen garden to help the change over towards a better way to build websites. In the 2000’s the Zen Garden did wonders to improve the uptake of CSS and show that presentation can be separated from content, can we do the same for RWD?

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29 new inspiring responsive designs on the web

This has some pretty good sites to take a look at for inspiration.  I’m not sure how it’s own site TNW arrived so high on the list, but you can bet that when we run a similar feature we’ll put ourselves on the top of the pile too. The only shame about this article isn’t […]

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