Lessons Learned from Responsive Design

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This presentation was given at the Houston Interactive Marketing Association's IS conference. It covers the challenges faced with Responsive Web Design and some advice for your current Mobile Web Design work.

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Half Baked Cookies

Lessons from Responsive Designhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rhinoneal/5633001128

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Cooking up Responsive

1. Preparing the Kitchen

2. Mix in the Clients

3. The Bakers are Missing a Few Steps

4. Advicehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/79638854@N07/9556425950

1. Preparing the Kitchen

Everything starts with saleshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/4036543460/

Mostly Used at Home (84%)

Mobile Traffic

In a study of ~70 clients:

27% average NPO Mobile traffic Q1 2013

20% average All Mobile Traffic Q1 2013

67% increase Q1 2012 to Q1 2013

Some clients at 50% mobile traffic

Top 20 by Operating System

Google Says So

1. Google recommends webmasters follow the industry best practice of using responsive web design, namely serving the same HTML for all devices and using only CSS media queries to decide the rendering on each device.

2. If responsive design is not the best option to serve your users, Google supports having your content being served using different HTML. The different HTML can be on the same URL or on different URLs, and Googlebot can handle both setups appropriately if you follow our recommendations.

How Much Does it Cost?

$500??? (about.com)http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/6848823919

Included for Free

Wordpress Templates

Client Expectations

Car Mechanichttp://www.flickr.com/photos/47557199@N03/4478980639

2. Mix In The Clients

"Look, good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living? That's something else.”

―Han Solohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/26346563@N04/7941041666

Adoption

100%http://www.flickr.com/photos/newhousedesign/3363986966

All Content

Pixel Perfect

All Browsers and Devices

Your Own Worst Enemy

No Problem, Easyhttp://blog.schipul.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Eloy-and-Matt-Mullenweg.jpg

Number of Responsive Sites?

<1%https://meanpath.com/f/QBYvnw (1,109,052 results via meanpath)

Sick of Boxy Design

Not Ready for the Responsibilityhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/donnieray/8658314801/

3. Missing a Few Stepshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/coda/417602912

Design Failure

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/css/psd-to-html-artthatworks-skeleton-boilerplate/

Mobile First and New Processes

Mostly Fluid

Column Drop

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1514 (Luke Wroblewski)

Frameworkshttp://designinstruct.com/roundups/html5-frameworks/

Screen Resolutions / Breakpoints

Apple Screen Sizes

Android Screen Sizes

http://opensignal.com/reports/fragmentation.phpthe most common aspect ratio 5:3

FlexboxThe main idea behind the flex layout is to give the container the ability to alter its items' width/height (and order) to best fill the available space. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

Relative Fonts and Units

Server Side Images

Landing Pages

Mobile Navigations

jQuery Mobile

Tables

Links and Buttons

4. What About Some Damn Advice?

Pixel Perfect is Deadhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/53867930@N08/5115514047

Process Changes Happen All The Time

Scientifically Study Evolutionhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rizzato/3273263985

Make Decisions Reasonably

Common Sense Tells Me…http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/10/how-to-avoid-duplicate-downloads-in-responsive-images/

Schipul / Tendenci / @longstation

Aaron Long

Aaron Longalong@schipul.com281-497-6567 x515www.schipul.comwww.tendenci.com

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