Realistic responsive design - Responsive Day Out 2014

How can you make your website, or websites, responsive, when you don't have the luxury of starting from scratch?

1. Realistic responsive design by Inayaili de León Persson Responsive Day Out, Brighton, 2014
3. 1 It’s not about you
4. 2 Make a plan Slowly, slowly List your constraints One thing at a time Go shopping! {
5. Grid to percentages Style guide Responsive grid prototype Canonical.com project Ubuntu Insights project Responsive release DEC 2012 AUG APR DEC FEB 2014 OCT JUN FEB 2013 APR JUN Design and font end sprint Web team scoping Blogging Responsive navigation Slowly, slowly
7. List your constraints
8. ✓ Same content ✓ Same information architecture ✓ Same visual direction ✓ Existing large screen design
9. One thing at a time
10. To do: 1. Create style guide 2. Clean up CSS 3. Convert grid to percentages 4. Create responsive grid prototype 5. Page-by-page estimate 6. Update image assets 7. Prototype responsive navigation 8. Update style guide document
11. Go shopping!
12. 17% APPLE IPAD 13% APPLE IPHONE 3% GOOGLE NEXUS 7 3% LG NEXUS 5 2% GOOGLE NEXUS 4 2% SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 1% SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 …
13. 3 Evolve Reuse Standardise across sites {
14. Reuse
15. ABC abcd
22. Standardise across sites
24. 4 Experiment
28. 5 Just do it Tidy up before you start Set the rules Guerrilla UX {
29. Tidy up before you start
32. Set the rules
34. “Experiment reducing padding inside rows and boxes incrementally as the screen size decreases”
36. Guerrilla UX
37. Epilogue
38. Read more at design.canonical.com
39. The end. Thanks for listening, Inayaili de León Persson @yaili