Responsive Web Design
- 1. RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN FOR THE VISUAL DESIGNER BY ERICA COSTA OF THE BRANDON AGENCY
- 3. A responsive website responds to its environment.
- 4. “Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift in how we’ll build websites for the decade to come.” - Jeffrey Veen
- 5. There is no longer a standard screen size.
- 6. It’s one site for every device.
- 7. WHO IS USING RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN RIGHT NOW?
- 9. sony.com
- 10. bostonglobe.com
- 11. WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR US (THE DESIGNERS)?
- 12. We have to create beautiful websites that anticipate users’ needs beyond the desktop.
- 13. Far beyond the desktop.
- 15. This is where responsive web design steps in.
- 16. SO, HOW DO WE APPROACH THE ACTUAL DESIGN?
- 17. No more picking an arbitrary size in photoshop, mocking-up a design, and handing it over to developers.
- 18. We need a new design process.
- 19. 1 Get content Tweak the Chat with 8 design for 2 the developer this new size Fix problems Repeat until Research, 7 and find the you’ve reached 3 sketch, breakpoint the largest size brainstorm Sit with Designing for 6 the developer 4 the smallest and test Hand over resolution 5 design to the developer
- 20. This process requires us and the developer to work together right from the very beginning.
- 21. We can’t work separately anymore.
- 22. WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
- 23. Find and utilize resources on the web.
- 24. Just be willing to adapt and learn.
- 25. RESOURCES
- 26. TERMS TO KNOW Adaptive Fluid Adaptive design is based on top of fixed-width designs. Instead of having one Instead of an element being a known and fixed size, it can stretch to fill any fixed-width design, there are multiple fixed-width designs for a single page. available space. But, only horizontally (this is a stretch, not a scale). Whole Normally these designs are split up based on the width of the browser, so there pages can be made of fluid elements, meaning the whole site becomes fluid. can be one fixed-width design for mobile, another for iPad, and another for a The layout doesn’t change. computer. Although they’re “multiple designs,” they’re generally based on the . same thing, just rearranged to better suit a larger (or smaller) screen. In effect, the website adapts to the size of the visitor’s screen/browser by automatically Mobile first Is a way of managing the design and build process. The idea is to start by selecting a different fixed-width design to use. considering the simplest possible version (usually the mobile version, hence the name) and work up through larger and more complex designs only once a Breakpoint smaller one is complete. The advantage in terms of design is an emphasis on A breakpoint is the width at which a given design starts to look broken and, core content and design elements (typography and colors, then layout, etc). therefore, at which point a new design should be applied. From a technical perspective, this is quite essential; from a design perspective, it’s less so. Fixed-width Responsive This is a traditional web page. With fixed-width sites, it doesn’t matter what Combines Adaptive and Fluid techniques. In a responsive project, there are a size screen or browser a visitor has, the site is always the same size (in pixels) series of designs, each of which is fluid - stretching up to a given point before as the design in our Photoshop file. If the screen isn’t big enough to fit the switching to a different design or layout design in, the visitor has to scroll sideways. If the screen is huge, the design has empty space around it.
- 27. USEFUL SITES abookapart.com 1stwebdesigner.com blog.responsivenews.co.uk madebysplendid.com webdesign.tutsplus.com sitepoint.com smashingmagazine.com netmagazine.com designer-daily.com thinkvitamin.com speckyboy.com tripwiremagazine.com
- 28. CREDITS mattwilcox.net dennischeatham.com trentwalton.com stephanierieger.com johnpolacek.github.com adactio.com www.netmagazine.com splashnology.com elliotjaystocks.com designshack.net 1stwebdesigner.com designyoutrust.com