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Great industry overview.
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“View mode” approach to responsive web design
“View mode” approach to responsive web design — Design/UX — Medium.
Off canvas navigation is especially effective when you have webapps with a complex and deep content structure, because it hides the navigation from the view when the user is focused on the content, and when the user wants to navigate, the view changes and the navigation is in focus. And it allows the navigation to take up the space needed to give the user a good overview of the webapps content.
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RyRy
Flash is Dead. Long Live Flash! | WeedyGarden
The web has gone through many phases in its short life. Today, unfortunately, is the day of overly large RWD sites and resurgance of Flash-like interaction. Both of which seem highly contradictory to the industries recent focus on cross-device experiences and performance.
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RyRy
The Ultimate UX Design of: Responsive Web Design Navigation – Designmodo
Nice overview.
The Ultimate UX Design of: Responsive Web Design Navigation – Designmodo.
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Bobby
Google Makes Non-Desktop SEO an Absolute Necessity – Search Engine Watch #SEW
From a dev point of view this latest announcement seems to push brands further toward using responsive design to cater for mobile and tablet users as opposed to an m. subdomain or dynamic serving of content based on device. Google likes responsive design because the right content is always served to the user, even if it isnt necessarily specifically targeted on them.
via Google Makes Non-Desktop SEO an Absolute Necessity – Search Engine Watch #SEW.
As if we needed another reason to want to push the world to a mobile ready web.
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Bobby
RWD and eCommerce come together – Electric Pulp
You like apples? | Electric Pulp..
We took a popular ecommerce store (O’Neill Clothing) that we’d recently redesigned and monitored conversions, transactions and revenue for three weeks. Then we quietly deployed the responsive conditions to the already live site and monitored for another three weeks.
This was not an A/B test. We simply picked 6 non-holiday weeks that perform similarly year over year to get as near to similar conditions as we could.
The “responsive conditions” were typical mobile patterns. We made the site fluid. We collapsed the primary navigation menu, allowing visitors to expand it by tapping a Menu link. We increased the size of the font, the tap areas and detail photos. We reduced the number of columns. We spent a lot of time just “fixing Magento forms.” Everything in a way that lets the O’Neill team continue to manage 100% of the content on the site.
Here’s what we found:
iPhone/iPod:
CONVERSIONS: + 65.71%
TRANSACTIONS: + 112.50%
REVENUE: + 101.25%Android Devices:
CONVERSIONS: + 407.32%
TRANSACTIONS: + 333.33%
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sparkbox/Build-Responsively-Workshop · GitHub
sparkbox/Build-Responsively-Workshop · GitHub.
Not sure I ever posted this, but it’s Sparkbox’s Github from their Build Responsively conference.
Some great stuff in here!
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Bobby
Conditional Lightbox
I’ve ran into this in the past, do you do a lightbox on a small screen? Initially I thought the answer was yes, but the more I think about the more I realize I was totally wrong. This article expands on the mistake made in the first year or so of thinking RWD:
The purpose of a lightbox is to display a larger image corresponding to the selected thumbnail version while keeping the user on the same page instead of linking directly to a page showing the full image. Again, there are an abundance of solutions for solving this problem but the vast majority of existing patterns translate poorly to smaller displays. In fact you may argue that a lightbox shouldn’t even exist on small displays. — Jordan Moore
I wholeheartedly agree with Jordan, yet I’m seeing more and more lightboxes on responsive sites. There are even plenty of tools and tutorials encouraging designers to continue this flawed pattern (on small screens at least).So what’s a better alternative to lightboxes for small screens?
In his article Why Separate Mobile & Desktop Web Pages?, Luke Wroblewski discusses treating large and small screens differently when handling certain kinds of interactions:
Interactions that happen through modal dialogs or across modules/panels on large screens often make more sense as separate pages on smaller screens. —Luke Wroblewski
Luke and others often point to Facebook as a good example of when small screens get separate pages while large screen get a lightbox.WORD!
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Bobby
Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design | CSS-Tricks
Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design | CSS-Tricks.
At Mobify, we recently analyzed data from more than 200 million visitors to our e-commerce customers’ sites, and found that 27% of site visits came from people shopping on smartphones and tablets. For some countries, such as Brazil, we found that nearly half of all e-commerce traffic came through mobile devices.
It’s now a reality that every company and publisher on the web needs a mobile web strategy. We wrote an e-book on how to build a great mobile site, and here are nine tips from the book for optimizing your site for all those mobile site visitors.
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Bobby
Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images | Design Shack
This sounds pretty awesome and something we’ll have to take into account moving forward with RWD.
The practice of implementing responsive images is still in its infancy. We’ve seen a lot of ideas and suggestions for how it should be done and we’re bound to see a lot more.
Today we’re going to look at a fascinating little framework that allows you to not only automatically resize your images when the viewport changes, but also crop the images with a specific important focal point in mind. Amazingly enough, it does all this with pure CSS. Read on to see how it works.
Read it all here:
Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images | Design Shack.
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Bobby
Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios
Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios – Voormedia.
What’s the easiest way to scale background images in responsive layouts? We use an old technique and enhance it to fluidly change the aspect ratio of background images.
Responsive layouts make it possible to dynamically scale the width of a website to fit on small mobile devices as well as larger desktop computers. An
element with a percentual width will have its height automatically adjusted. Its aspect ratio remains the same when it is resized.
If we want to accomplish the same with background images we must figure out how to maintain the aspect ratio of any HTML element.
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Bobby
Responsive Web Design Interactive Infographic | Template Monster
Responsive Web Design Interactive Infographic | Template Monster.
This is badass. Click the link. A true “interactive” infographic.
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Michael
I love this infographic – I just wish it would have been responsive itself – or adaptive even
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Bobby
Responsive Design case study | built by Boon
Here is a great case study of a build of a responsive site:
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Responsive Navigation Patterns | Brad Frost Web
Top and left navigations are typical on large screens, but lack of screen real estate on small screens makes for an interesting challenge. As responsive design becomes more popular, it’s worth looking at the various ways of handling navigation for small screen sizes. Mobile web navigation must strike a balance between quick access to a site’s information and unobtrusiveness.
Here’s some of the more popular techniques for handling navigation in responsive designs:
- Top Nav or “Do Nothing” Approach
- The Footer Anchor
- The Select Menu
- The Toggle
- The Left Nav Flyout
- The Footer Only
- The “Hide and Cry”
There are of course advantages and disadvantages of each method and definitely some things to look out for when choosing what method’s right for your project.
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Bobby
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites.
A great post on the google “webmaster” *snickering* blog about responsive design and their recommendations.
Every day more and more smartphones get activated and more websites are producing smartphone-optimized content. Since we last talked about how to build mobile-friendly websites, we’ve been working hard on improving Google’s support for smartphone-optimized content. As part of this effort, we launched Googlebot-Mobile for smartphones back in December 2011, which is specifically tasked with identifying such content.
Today we’d like to give you Google’s recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites and explain how to do so in a way that gives both your desktop- and smartphone-optimized sites the best chance of performing well in Google’s search results.
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Bobby
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries.
The Google’s is getting into the responsive game. This could be huge for the ‘movement’.
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Bobby
Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design | Palantir.net
Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design | Palantir.net.
The subject of navigation in responsive Web design (RWD) is both exciting and challenging. Best practices are emerging for smaller, boutique-style sites, but for sites with larger anatomies, it’s still the Wild West, especially when it comes to migrating legacy information into a new design.
Here are some of the lessons we’ve learned working on a recent real-life, large-scale RWD project. Specifically, this post focuses on how we chose to deal with deep navigation in the landscape of a templated environment.
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Bobby
Responsive Web Design: Is it the Future or a Feature? | Business 2 Community
What if you only had to build one website design and it would fit all devices, big or small? You can, with a Responsive Web Design. Responsive Web Design RWD essentially indicates that a website is crafted to use W3C CSS3 media queries with fluid proportion-based grids to adapt the layout to the users viewing environment. While it is still in the early stages of acceptance, this new standard in web development could be the future. Here we get you up-to-speed.
via Responsive Web Design: Is it the Future or a Feature? | Business 2 Community.
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Screenqueri.es | Pixel Perfect Responsive Design Testing Tool
Screenqueri.es | Pixel Perfect Responsive Design Testing Tool.
WOW this will come in mad handy as we build some RWD sites this year.
MUST SEE and TEST to understand what i mean.
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