Nielsen Full day training course offered at Usability Week New York City
Everything You Wanted to Know About Responsive Design...And Less!
Responsive design patterns and principles, how responsive design affects process and mobile strategy
Everything You Wanted to Know About Responsive Design...And Less! is a full-day workshop that takes a deep dive into the world of responsive web design, covering everything from landscape trends, strategy, how responsive design affects process, to responsive design patterns and principles.
Oh, and the "...And Less" part? Multi-device web design is a huge topic and unfortunately there are only so many hours in the day. We'll be sure to cover a lot of ground, but we'll focus on considerations that will help you create usable, beautiful and contextually-considerate responsive web designs.
Benefits
- Better understand the ever-shifting device landscape and how it changes the way we approach creating for the Web
- Learn the principles of adaptive design and use them to guide design decisions
- Get practical tips and considerations for creating contextually-considerate mobile web experiences
- Walk away with an in-depth knowledge of many emerging responsive design patterns to create robust adaptive interfaces
Topics covered
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The Web landscape
- Mobile's explosion and increasing device diversity
- The many paths to the mobile web: social, email, search and more
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Approach
- Establishing a future-friendly web strategy
- Planting the seed for a responsive future
- Responsive retrofitting
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Foundations of Responsive Design
- Fluid Grids
- Flexible Media
- Media Queries
- Evolving Responsive Design
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The Principles of Adaptive Design
- Ubiquity
- Flexibility
- Performance
- Enhancement
- Future Friendly
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Responsive Patterns
- Layout
- Navigation
- Images
- Video
- Maps
- Forms
- Type
- Modules
Format
This workshop is primarily lecture-based with a lot of room for open discussion and questions.
Instructor
Brad Frost
Brad Frost is a front-end designer, consultant and speaker located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He is the creator of This Is Responsive, a collection of patterns, resources and news to help people create great responsive web experiences. He also created Mobile Web Best Practices, a resource site that lays out considerations for creating great mobile web experiences. He curates WTF Mobile Web, a site that teaches by example what not to do when working with the mobile web.
Brad Frost is a front-end designer, consultant and speaker located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He is the creator of This Is Responsive, a collection of patterns, resources and news to help people create great responsive web experiences. He also created Mobile Web Best Practices, a resource site that lays out considerations for creating great mobile web experiences. He curates WTF Mobile Web, a site that teaches by example what not to do when working with the mobile web.