Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool of passing fads and rapidly entering the realm of standard practice. In fact, the magnitude of this paradigm shift feels as fundamental as the transition from table based layouts to CSS. Simply put, this is a very different way of designing websites and it represents the future. Free trial on Treehouse: Do you want to learn more about responsive web design?
Developing your eye for design – Jonathan Z. White – Medium
A simple strategy Here are some things that you can do to train your eye. Browse design inspiration Keep a folder and save designs that inspire you over the course of the week. At the end of the week, look through your folder and ask yourself some of these questions.
Essential considerations for crafting quality media queries
CSS3 media queries are dead simple, in terms of their syntax. You’ve got an @media directive, a media type (which you already know from good ol’ CSS 2, like screen, print, all, etc.) and one or more media features (the characteristics we’re testing against). That’s it: @media screen and (max-width:500px) { } There are some additional little syntax details, but this is basically all you need to know to actually make a media query work.
Responsive CSS Patterns without Media Queries
Let me start by saying that despite the title, this article is not about doing away with media queries or media query bashing in any way. Media queries are incredibly useful and I use them all the time for all sorts of things. However, they don’t solve all our responsive design problems. It’s often desirable to effect changes to an arrangement of elements based on the dimensions of their container, rather than the viewport.
In Search of the Ultimate User Experience - Marvel Blog
Part I: Experience is everything The origin of imagination Around 70,000 years ago, Sapiens figuratively ate an apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and a mutation occurred that scientists still can’t explain to this day. According to Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago, new ways of thinking and communicating suddenly propelled Homo Sapiens to the top of the food chain. This ‘mutation’ led to the invention of boats, oil lamps, and the bow and arrow. The sewing needle enabled entire tribes to shed the fig leaf and stay warm during harsh winters.
The 100% correct way to do CSS breakpoints – freeCodeCamp
For the next minute or so, I want you to forget about CSS. Forget about web development. Forget about digital user interfaces. And as you forget these things, I want you to allow your mind to wander. To wander back in time. Back to your youth.
Responsive Images in CSS
The term "responsive images" has come to mean "responsive images in HTML", in other words, the srcset and sizes attribute for <img> and the <picture> element. But how do the capabilities that these things provide map to CSS? CSS generally wasn't really involved in the responsive images journey of the last few years.
Responsive Web Design · An A List Apart Article
The English architect Christopher Wren once quipped that his chosen field “aims for Eternity,” and there’s something appealing about that formula: Unlike the web, which often feels like aiming for next week, architecture is a discipline very much defined by its permanence. Article Continues Below A building’s foundation defines its footprint, which defines its frame, which shapes the facade. Each phase of the architectural process is more immutable, more unchanging than the last. Creative decisions quite literally shape a physical space, defining the way in which people move through its confines for decades or even centuries.
How To Write Mobile-first CSS
17th Dec 2014 Building responsive websites is a must-have skill for front-end developers today. When we speak about responsive websites, the term mobile-first pops into mind immediately.
Website Design in Adobe XD Tutorial
As someone who has spent the last 15 years using Adobe Photoshop for designing websites, Adobe XD is a breath of fresh air. I'm exclusively a Windows guy, so I haven't had a chance to experiment with Sketch. Adobe XD (Experience Design) is Adobe's response to the popularity of Sketch. While I wrote and recorded this tutorial at a time when Adobe XD is still in beta, you should be able to follow along perfectly fine for years to come. Reason being: it's very feature lacking and the only features I used are ones that should remain present in future builds. So with that said, if you prefer to watch video tutorials instead of reading written tutorials, you can watch everything I'm about to teach you below:
How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website
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The Makings of a Great Logo - BOLD by Pixelapse
Your company's logo is the fundamental foundation to your business branding. It is probably the first interaction that you will have with your customers. An effective logo can establish the right tone and set the proper ethos. After years of crafting logos for different projects, I've come up with a set of questions that I always ask myself before delivering a new logo. Above all design guidelines, the most important criterion is whether the logo reflects the character of the company.
Recruiting a Designer? Here's What You Should Know - BOLD by Pixelapse
Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says "I'm a designer", it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed by the umbrella term designer. Design related roles span many industries, ranging from industrial design (e.g. cars, furniture) to the traditional print industry (e.g. magazines, publications), to the new media tech industry (e.g. websites, mobile apps). With the relatively recent influx of tech companies focused on creating interfaces for screens, many new design roles have emerged.
Media Query Bookmarklet
We created this bookmarklet to aid in designing responsive websites. Now you can always know what media query just triggered. Never again will you lose track of where you are. One thing that I quickly noticed when we started building responsive websites was that we were constantly resizing our browsers. We would resize the browser to the largest media query, and then step down and watch the changes so we knew what media query we were looking at.
