Responsive, accessible, mobile-first, and progressively enhanced forms Web forms can be tricky business. Luckily there are some really smart guys out there keen to solve the challenges associated with doing web forms well. Making forms easy to fill out on touch device, making them easy to navigate for people using assistive devices, making them easy […]
Category Archives: Responsive Web Design
Last month I was interviewed by Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane about the recent responsive intranet redesign I was involved with at Citrix. It was a true pleasure. Today they posted the podcast https://lnkd.in/e5NYAmX
In typical Karen McGrane fashion she makes a clear case for dealing with content first. Not just for responsive sites, but for any site. Seems like a lot of people are laboring under the mistaken impression that using responsive design means they can make a mobile website without dealing with their content problem. Where’d they get […]
Responsive web design is such the hot topic these days and it clearly has it’s proponents and detractors. One common complaint about RWD has to do with the size of site and the impact that has on performance. It’s all too common to find responsive sites sending the same amount of information to mobile devices […]
If you’ve looked into designing or redesigning a website recently you’ve likely heard the phrase responsive web design, or RWD for short, thrown about. Responsive has been receiving quite a bit of buzz these days and for very good reason. But do you really know what’s involved, how it can help you or why it’s […]
I’ve recently run across a couple articles that aim to make the point that responsive web design (RWD) is not a cure all when it comes to designing for the web. While that is true, in the process of getting to their point the authors make several statements that are misleading, inaccurate, confusing and conveluted. […]
Responsive Web Design (RWD) has really come into its own since 2010. This is due in large part to the explosion of mobile devices, notably smartphones and tablets, into the marketplace over the past couple years. But even the best and brightest minds in the field recognize that responsive is only part of the answer.
“A good player plays where the puck is. A great player plays where the puck is going to be.” – Wayne Gretzky We’re all aware that things are constantly changing and doing so faster then ever in the world of web. New challenges arise daily. More browsers, more devices, more screen sizes, changing user contexts […]
What Bruce Lee can teach us about web design. “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it […]
Over the last year or so much has changed in web design. Our big problem use to be backwards compatibility with IE6. But now we find ourselves in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. New smart-phones and tablets are popping up faster then the brain hungry undead in a George A. Romero movie. Luckily a […]