Responsive Resources
A collection of resources about the various aspects of responsive web design.
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Getting Started
Broader Concepts
Approach
- This Is Responsive Tagged 'Strategy'
- Which One: Responsive Design, Device Experiences, or RESS?
- Mobile web content adaptation techniques
- Responsiveness Is a Charactersic
- Device Experiences & Responsive Design
- Responsive web design: a project-management perspective
- A Primer on Responsive Design
- Separate Mobile Website Vs. Responsive Website: Presidential Smackdown Edition
- Responsive Design is Not About Screen Sizes Any More
Process
- Design Process in the Responsive Age
- Responsive Design Workflow
- Responsive Summit: Workflow
- Pragmatic Responsive Design
- This Is Responsive Tagged 'Process'
- A Matter Of Workflow
- Responsive Workflow
- Design Process in the Responsive Age
- Sketching A New Mobile Web
- RWD Process Docuements
- Reorganization
- Great Responsive Web Design is a Matter of Process
- An agency workflow for Responsive Web Design
- eClient Relationships and the Multi-Device Web
- Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff without Mockups
Budget
Case Studies
- Impact of Responsive Designs
- Time Magazine
- O'Neill Clothing
- Skinny Ties
- Responsive Design to the Rescue: How HOMAGE Grew Mobile Revenue by 258%
- Regent College
- Adapting To A Responsive Design
- Betting on a fully responsive web application
- How we built the website for responsive.io
- PAWS New England: Adopting a dog from your phone
- Is Responsive Web Design Worth It?
- 14 brands that increased conversion rates via responsive design
Design Tools
Inspiration
Sketching
PSDs
Post-PSD Tools
Pattern Libraries
Frameworks/Boilerplates/Prototyping
Calculators
Layout
Fluid Grids
Grid Tools
- Fitgrd
- GridSet
- Gridless Boilerplate
- Golden Grid System
- Gridpak
- Responsive Grid System
- Fluid Baseline Grid
- Responsify
- Columnal
- Semantic Grid System
- Susy, Responsive grids for Compass
- Gumby
- 1140 CSS Grid
- Amazium
- Inuit CSS
- BluCSS
- Singularity
- Unit Grid System
- Bourbon Neat
- Unit Grid System
- Bedrock Responsive Grid
- Foldy960
- Responsive Grid System
- YAML
- Profound Grid
- Hoisin.scss
Adjusting Layout
Media Queries
Overview
Determining Breakpoints
- Determining breakpoints for a responsive design
- The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW!
- Fanfare for the common breakpoint
- Essential considerations for crafting quality media queries
- Pragmatic Responsive Design
- The In-Between
- There Is No Breakpoint
- Choosing device sizes to support for your responsive designs
- A Simple Device Diagram for Responsive Design Planning
- Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design
- Tweakpoints
Vertical Media Queries
Tools
- Respond.js
- enquire.js - Awesome Media Queries in JavaScript
- Harvy JS-based media queries
- Relocate DOM Elements and call functions on breakpoints
- OnMediaQuery - Responsive Javascript
- Palm Reader media query detector
- Breakpoints and range rules
- MQtest.io - Tests what dimensions a browser will respond to
- Screenqueri.es - 30 different device presets + custom resolutions.
- Dimensions - Easily test responsive websites, even offline.
- Responsive Inspector - Inspect media queries visually.
Browser Extensions
For Unsupported Browsers
Images
Overview
Responsive Image Techniques
Compressive Images
Server-Side Image Solutions
New Elements
Background Images
High Resolution
Icon Fonts
Bandwidth Detection
Testing
Viewport Testing
- Responsinator
- Responsivator
- Responsive.is
- Responsive Web Design Testing Tool
- Responsivepx
- Screenqueri.es
- Aptus
- Responsive Design Bookmarklet
- Bricss
- Izilla Media Query Debugger
- Screenfly
- Responsive Roulette
- Fontier for Chrome
- Resolution Test
- Firefox Developer Tools (shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + M)
- Viewport Resizer
- jResize
- Resize My Browser
- Juicer
- RWD
- ish.
- Responsive Tools
- Am I Responsive
- I Am Mobile
- Responsive Inspector
- Resphrame
- 11h Re-size
Device Testing
Testing Resources
Further Resources
Books
- Responsive Web Design
- Implementing Responsive Design
- Adaptive Web Design
- Responsive Design Workflow
- Responsive Design (eBook)
- Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
- Redesign The Web - The Smashing Book 3
- The Mobile Book
- The Responsive Web
- Designing Web and Mobile Graphics
- Responsive WordPress Theming
- Responsive Design Workflow
Roundups
Presentations
Tutorials
Responsive Patterns
A collection of patterns and modules for responsive designs.
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