Responsive Web Design - Lightening Talk

A quick talk I gave in Jan 2012 about responsive web design and why I thought it was interesting and worthwhile.

Transcript

1. Responsive Web Design Feb 2012
2. All the web enabled devices, put your hands up!
3. Device! Location! Context! Screen size! Processor speed! JavaScript! Flash! Media Queries! Drink! Girls! Feck!
4. Highest common denominator Universal access?
5. A different website for each device Optimum experience?
6. Responsive Web Design The Hannah Montana Solution
7. “Mobile first” What is your key content? What are your key features?
8. Adaptive content Progressive enhancement
9. Fluid grids Multiple break points
10. Emerging technical solutions A clear trajectory
11. the web print desktop apps Ugh! God! I HATE you! You’re so embarrassing!!!
12. New ways of working
13. Designers Developers
14. It could always have been this way
16. Ceci n'est pas une photographie
17. What it was all along
18. “ The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is universality. When you make a link, you can link to anything. [...] The Web should be usable by people with disabilities. It must work with any form of information, be it a document or a point of data, and information of any quality — from a silly tweet to a scholarly paper. And it should be accessible from any kind of hardware that can connect to the Internet: stationary or mobile, small screen or large. ” Tim Berners-Lee http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
20. t Luke Wroblewski Ethan Marcotte Simon Collison Jeremy Keith Bryan Rieger I stole it all from these guys! Google these names for more information on Responsive Web Design! @morganesque