RWD with Mobile in Mind

Mobile-first responsive web design is the focal point of this podcast with Jason Grigsby, a founder of a non-profit organization supporting Portland’s mobile community and a co-author of Head First Mobile Web. 26:39 talk reveals the crucial points of responsive web design, its origins, ideas about how to make it “performing”, thus interesting for the viewers.

Responsive design as an ability of the site to be displayed on screens of different sizes, is a common practice these days. According to Jason opinion, RWD shouldn’t be considered as a apart of design, as it is. The viability of a site depends not only on its visual presentation. A set of media queries for optimizing site’s layout for various screen resolutions is not enough. A number of other factors should be taken into consideration: weights of a page, image sizes, network speeds, etc.

One more interesting point of the discussion is performance. It plays the key role in user’s attitude to the site. The audience will never use a site with bad performance in spite of its visually effective design and good UX. To learn more about it, find out designer’s view of RWD and everything that deals with it, listen to this podcast.