Everything You Know is Not Quite Right Anymore: Rethinking Best Practices to Respond to the Future
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The document emphasizes the need for higher education institutions to rethink their web strategies and embrace responsive design as mobile traffic is increasing rapidly. It highlights the importance of mobile optimization, planning, and testing to deliver effective user experiences across devices. Furthermore, the authors stress that colleges should proactively adapt to changing technology and user behaviors for successful digital engagement.
Everything You Know is Not Quite Right Anymore: Rethinking Best Practices to Respond to the Future
- 1. YOU RIGHT EVERYTHING NOT QUITE KNOW ANYMORE IS RETHINKING BEST PRACTICES TO RESPOND TO THE FUTURE
- 2. Dave Olsen Doug Gapinski Professional Technologist Strategist West Virginia University mStoner @dmolsen @thedougco
- 3. Doug: planning and design Dave: development and performance
- 5. EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS NOT QUITE RIGHT ANYMORE I. Rethink everything II. Our reality III. Making the case IV. Planning + patterns V. Optimization + testing
- 7. Most colleges and universities are only showing ~10 to 15% traffic from mobile operating systems. Source: anecdotal from clients
- 8. 55% of Facebook's monthly active user base accesses Facebook on a mobile device. Source: Facebook
- 9. “...we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined.” Source: Mark Zuckerburg @ Disrupt 2012
- 10. Sequential browsing: 90% of people begin a task on one device (most commonly a smartphone) and finish it on another. Source: Google
- 11. + Mobile “on the go” is a myth: 81% of 18-24 year olds use their mobile device while watching TV. Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
- 12. 17% of cellphone users in the US use their phone as their primary web browsing platform. Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
- 13. + > Mobile and tablet traffic is predicted to outpace desktop traffic by 2015 or sooner. Source: IDC
- 14. 48% of prospects who visited a school with a mobile site were positively affected. Source: Noel Levitz’s “Mobile E-Expectations Report”
- 15. We can see that the need to deliver content on multiple devices exists. We must be proactive in creating great experiences for audiences on all devices.
- 16. After the launch of a responsive home page for WVU mobile traffic increased from 11% to 22% in less than a month. Source: WVU analytics
- 17. II. OUR REALITY http://flic.kr/p/8BPQ2q
- 18. The first higher ed mobile web solutions were dominated by the m-dots. But those solutions don’t scale.
- 19. Visitors Contributors CMS + + Developers
- 20. VISITORS WILL STILL RELY ON TRADITIONAL MEANS OF ACCESS “ Not every mobile device will have your app on it but every mobile device will have a browser. ” — Jason Grigsby
- 21. CLIENTS WANT TO KEEP DOING WHAT THEY’VE ALWAYS DONE “ Links don’t open apps. ” — Jason Grigsby
- 22. MOBILE WEB IS ALIVE & KICKING Search Email Social Media
- 23. http://flic.kr/p/axKd6X Coming to Grips Finding balance.
- 26. III. MAKING THE CASE
- 27. 100% SUCCESS RATE FOR SELLING JUST BY TALKING ABOUT IT Responsive Redesigns in Progress Retrofits in Progress UC Hastings University of Rochester Webster University Manhattan College Drake University Miami University Whittier College Spring Arbor University Herzing University St. Joseph’s College
- 28. Show, don’t sell bostonglobe.com weedygarden.net mediaqueri.es
- 30. IV. PLANNING AND PATTERNS
- 31. Planning is the number one way to guarantee you wind up with a high performance, good looking, fully responsive site.
- 32. Ethan Marcotte, the Moses of Responsive Design
- 33. PLANNING FOR FUNDAMENTALS A flexible The design has fluid layout elements grid that change based on browser size. Conditional The design uses one or more techniques images and to scale images and media so that the other media design performs well across devices. Media Conditional code that changes items on a queries page based on device detection or browser width.
- 34. PLANNING FOR ADVANCED FUNDAMENTALS Advanced A basic fluid grid is the priority; but to be fully elements responsive we must often cover slideshows, tables, tabs, multi-column type, custom widgets, forms, and more. Touch Touch input is a critical development input component as we move away from a mouse- first model of human-computer interaction RESS and Heavy lifting for user agent detection and server-side conditional media deployment is done by the conditionals server, not the device.
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- 36. Planning: full wireframes for each breakpoint Pros: Cons • most thorough method • takes the longest • no page element left unexplored • in some cases, wireframes don’t • may be the best solution for retrofitting preclude the group changing their mind because it provides the most detail later • with a slow-decision group, can bog down length of process
- 37. Planning: responsive prototypes Pros: Cons: • gets specific about repositioning and • requires someone on the team have content without promising every detail front-end skills • one asset per template instead of three • may not preclude the need for more or four detailed wireframes
- 38. Styletiles: for when moodboards are too vague and comps are too precise Source: styletil.es
- 39. Sparkbox’s in-browser style prototype Writeup: seesparkbox.com Download: github fork
- 40. Design patterns provide effective examples at the beginning of a project so that you’re not rethinking the wheel. Source: Luke W
- 41. Responsive design patterns Source: Brad Frost on github.com
- 42. Responsive design patterns Source: Brad Frost on github.com
- 43. New patterns: off canvas touch layouts Source: Luke W and Jason Weaver
- 44. Source: Zurb
- 45. Patterns for contemporary look and feel patterntap.com dribbble.com mobiletuxedo.com
- 46. A last note on planning: plan to conduct user testing on multiple devices
- 47. © Brad Frost brad’s iceberg
- 48. © Brad Frost brad’s iceberg
- 49. V. OPTIMIZATION & TESTING
- 50. 1 MB The average weight of a web page today. Flash HTML CSS Other Images JavaScript 82% Source: HTTP Archive
- 51. 86% RWD sites whose small screen design weights the same as the large screen. Source: Podjarny
- 52. 71% Users expect your mobile site to load as quickly as your desktop site. Source: Gomez
- 53. “ The way in which CSS media queries have been promoted for mobile hides tough problems and gives developers a false promise of a simple solution for designing for small screens.” Source: Jason Grigsby on Speakerdeck
- 54. Mobile first means performance first (start thinking about performance at the design stage)
- 55. PRIMARY PERFORMANCE ISSUES FOR RWD Over Downloading Poor Networks Download & Hide High Latency Download & Shrink Variable Bandwidth Excess DOM Packet Loss
- 56. THE LATENCY EFFECT The average web site requires 85 requests... Cable Modem Cell Network (20ms latency) (200ms latency) http://flic.kr/p/6xQPdi 0.4 seconds 4.2 secs Source: Guy Podjarny & HTTP Archive 10 times slower!
- 57. MOBILE OPTIMIZATION FOCUS 1. Reduce asset size 2. Reduce requests 3. Speed-up page render http://flic.kr/p/4zzKee
- 58. 1. REDUCING ASSET SIZE HTML & CSS Use mod_gzip or mod_deflate to make sure text-based compression assets are compressed for transfer. Image Use a service like kraken.io to optimize images. compression Also use CSS sprites as appropriate. Try to avoid When possible, think about avoiding images. images Implement with CSS or SVG. Minification Use a minifying service to make sure text-based assets are as small as possible. If using PHP use Minify. If using a Mac check out CodeKit. MicroJS or, Avoid using bulky frameworks if you’re using them for even better, simple tasks like selectors. Try microjs.com to find Vanilla JS libraries that may be smaller & more suitable. JavaScript also blocks the rendering of the page.
- 59. 2. REDUCING REQUESTS Browser The simplest way to reduce requests is to make sure the cache browser doesn’t need to make them. Make sure assets are bring cached on the browser. Concatenate Combine similar files together in one or multiple larger JS & CSS files to reduce requests. May harm performance too. localStorage Google & Bing use HTML5‘s localStorage as an enhancement to the browser cache. Check out basket.js. Avoid AppCache like the plague! data: URI For small images & fonts try embedding them in your CSS file by using the data: URI. Conditional Use a resource loader like Modernizr.load to loading conditionally include JavaScript & CSS files.
- 60. 3. SPEEDING-UP PAGE RENDER Avoid DOM By using JS to modify the DOM you can cause reflows & unnecessary reflows & repaints of your browser. They repaints slow down page render time as well as burn battery. Defer Use HTML5’s script defer & async attributes to delay loading of downloading files. Can also insert script elements into JavaScript the DOM using the onLoad event. Lazy load Comment out JavaScript that isn’t required at page load. JavaScript Uncomment & eval() when required. Touch beats While not directly related to page render, by making onClick sure your links use a Touch event rather than an onClick event user interactions will speed up by 300ms. Avoid SM Try using simple links to services rather than utilizing the widgets JavaScript widgets. They’re performance hogs.
- 61. http://flic.kr/p/a4VsPv RESS* can be a scalpel for your responsive designs. REsponsive Design + Server Side Components
- 62. toolbox, tools TESTING TOOLS Testing Tools http://flic.kr/p/4BZsQJ
- 63. PERFORMANCE TESTING SITES WebPagetest Mobitest
- 64. LEARN TO LOVE THE INSPECTOR
- 65. THE ULTIMATE MOBILE PERFORMANCE BOOKMARKLET mobile bookmarklet
- 66. SLOWING THINGS DOWN Charles Throttle charlesproxy.com
- 67. EMULATING MOBILE DEVICES BrowserStack Emulators charlesproxy.com
- 68. GET YOUR HANDS ON REAL DEVICES eBay MobileKarma.com Cellphone store leftovers Open device labs http://flic.kr/p/7972f6
- 69. HOW TO DECIDE WHICH TO GET Base on: Example: WiFi-capable, Analytics Rank, OS, Screen iPod Touch Dimensions, & Cost Samsung Fascinate + HTC Thunderbolt + Suggested focus: iPod Touch, mid-level Android, high-end Android, a tablet, Blackberry, $438 Windows Phone 7
- 70. ADOBE EDGE INSPECT (THE APP FORMERLY KNOWN AS ADOBE SHADOW)
- 71. Higher education professionals need to think & behave in a future-friendly way. Visit: futurefriend.ly
- 72. QUESTIONS?
- 73. THANKS! Dave Olsen Doug Gapinski Professional Technologist Strategist West Virginia University mStoner @dmolsen @thedougco
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