Beyond Squishy: The Truth About Responsive Design

Description

Responsive web design has hit the scene like a bomb, and now designers everywhere are showing off to their bosses and peers by resizing their browser windows. "Look! The site is squishy!"

While creating flexible layouts is important, there's a whole lot more that goes into truly exceptional adaptive web experiences. This session will introduce the Principles of Adaptive Design: ubiquity, flexibility, performance, enhancement and future-friendliness. We need go beyond media queries in order to preserve the web's ubiquity and move it in a future-friendly direction.

Questions Answered

1. Why bother with¬ responsive web design? What’s the real point?
2. What are the principles of adaptive web design?
3. What’s next for responsive web design?
4. What are the biggest challenges facing people creating adaptive experiences?
5. How will we be creating web experiences 5 years from now?

Tags

web, responsive, mobile

Meta

Event

Interactive

Category

Solo

Theme

Design and Development

Level

Intermediate

Speakers

• Brad Frost R/GA

Organizer

Brad Frost R/GA

Additional Supporting Materials

SXSW Interactive 2013

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