Responsive Design Tools & Resources

Responsive DesignTools & ResourcesBaltimore Mobile Meetup - January 15, 2013Refresh DC - January 17, 2013 Clarissa Peterson @clarissa

What We’ll Cover: Overview Frameworks Navigation Patterns Preprocessors Responsive Images Responsive Data Tables Polyﬁlls

“Its not like our industry nailed webdesign before we started doingresponsive design. Its still a work inprogress.” – Dan Willis @uxcrank

Before

http://www.usa.gov/

Illustration credit: Anna Debenham via Creative Commons http://ﬂic.kr/p/dtMQTL

Responsive Web Design

http://bostonglobe.com

1. Flexible Grid2. Flexible Images/Media 3. Media Queries

http://www.bostonglobe.com/

http://www.jsonline.com/

1. Flexible Grid2. Flexible Images/Media 3. Media Queries

http://www.unitedpixelworkers.com/

@media screen and (min-width: 640px) { .section1, .section2 { float: left; width: 50%; }}

@media screen and (min-width: 40em) { .section1, .section2 { float: left; width: 50%; }}

Frameworks

http://foundation.zurb.com/

http://foundation.zurb.com/grid-example1.php

http://www.zurb.com/soapbox

http://foundation.zurb.com/

Responsive

class="show-for-xlarge"class="show-for-large"class="show-for-large-up"class="show-for-medium"class="show-for-medium-down"class="show-for-small"breakpoints at:767px, 1279px, 1441px

class="hide-for-xlarge"class="hide-for-large"class="hide-for-large-up"class="hide-for-medium"class="hide-for-medium-down"class="hide-for-small"breakpoints at:767px, 1279px, 1441px

class="show-for-landscape"class="show-for-portrait"class="show-for-touch"class="hide-for-touch"

Prototyping

DesignDevelop

http://foundation.zurb.com/prototype-example2.php

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/forms.php

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/buttons.php

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/typography.php

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html

http://www.getskeleton.com

http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/

http://html5boilerplate.com/

Navigation Patterns

http://bradfrost.github.com/this-is-responsive/patterns.html

Top Navigation

http://www.gravitatedesign.com

http://www.temple.edu/

Footer Anchor

http://contentsmagazine.com/

<div id="site-nav"> <form> ... </form>! <nav>! ! <ul class="nav nav-primary">! ! ! <li><a href="#">Archive</a></li>! ! ! <li><a href="#">About</a></li>! ! ! <li><a href="#">Write For Us</a></li>! ! ! <li><a href="#">Subscribe</a></li>! ! !! ! </ul>! </nav></div>

@media screen and (min-width: 48em) {! #site-nav {! ! position: absolute;! ! top: -5em;! ! width: 100%;! ! z-index: 5;! }}

http://contentsmagazine.com/

Toggle Navigation

http://starbucks.com/

<a href="#menu" class="menu-link">Menu</a><nav class="" id="menu" role="navigation">! <ul>! ! <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>! ! <li><a href="#">About</a></li>! ! <li><a href="#">Products</a></li>! ! <li><a href="#">Services</a></li>! ! <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>! </ul></nav>

.js nav[role=navigation] {! overflow: hidden;! max-height: 0;}nav[role=navigation].active {! max-height: 15em;}

@media screen and (min-width: 48.25em) {! a.menu-link {! ! display: none;! }! .js nav[role=navigation] {! ! max-height: none;! }}

Left Nav Flyout

http://www.emerilsrestaurants.com

Three-Dimensional Menu

http://lab.hakim.se/meny/

Preprocessors

http://sass-lang.com/ and http://lesscss.org/

Compilers

Nesting

#navbar { width: 80%; height: 23px;}#navbar ul { list-style-type: none;}#navbar li { float: left;}

#navbar { width: 80%; height: 23px; ul { list-style-type: none; } li { float: left; }}

#navbar { width: 80%; height: 23px;}#navbar ul { list-style-type: none;}#navbar li { float: left;}

.fakeshadow { border-style: solid; border-left-width: 4px; border-left-color: #888; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-color: #ccc;}

.fakeshadow { border: { style: solid; left: { width: 4px; color: #888; } right: { width: 2px; color: #ccc; } }}

.fakeshadow { border-style: solid; border-left-width: 4px; border-left-color: #888; border-right-width: 2px; border-right-color: #ccc;}

Variables

$main-color: #ce4dd6;$style: solid;#navbar { border-bottom: { color: $main-color; style: $style; }}

#navbar { border-bottom-color: #ce4dd6; border-bottom-style: solid;}

Mixins

#navbar li { -moz-border-radius-top: 10px; -webkit-border-top-radius: 10px; border-top-radius: 10px;}#footer { -moz-border-radius-top: 10px; -webkit-border-top-radius: 10px; border-top-radius: 10px;}

@mixin rounded-top { -moz-border-radius-top: 10px; -webkit-border-top-radius: 10px; border-top-radius: 10px;}#navbar li { @include rounded-top; }#footer { @include rounded-top; }

#navbar li { -moz-border-radius-top: 10px; -webkit-border-top-radius: 10px; border-top-radius: 10px;}#footer { -moz-border-radius-top: 10px; -webkit-border-top-radius: 10px; border-top-radius: 10px;}

.sidebar { width: percentage(360px / 960px);}

.sidebar { width: 37.5%;}

@media Bubbling

.profile-pic { float: left; width: 250px;}@media screen and (max-width: 320px) { .profile-pic { width: 100px; }}@media screen and (min-width: 1200px) { .profile-pic { float: none; }}

.profile-pic { float: left; width: 250px; @media screen and (max-width: 320px) { width: 100px; } @media screen and (min-width: 1200px) { float: none; }}

.profile-pic { float: left; width: 250px;}@media screen and (max-width: 320px) { .profile-pic { width: 100px; }}@media screen and (min-width: 1200px) { .profile-pic { float: none; }}

$break-small: 320px;$break-large: 1200px;.profile-pic { float: left; width: 250px; @media screen and (max-width: $break-small) { width: 100px; } @media screen and (min-width: $break-large) { float: none; }}

Responsive Images

img, object, video { max-width: 100%}

Performance

Different Images

http://www.ottersurfboards.co.uk/

Pictureﬁll

What’s a Polyﬁll?

https://github.com/scottjehl/pictureﬁll

HD/Retina

Adaptive Images

http://adaptive-images.com/

Apache & PHP

<?php$resolutions = array(1382, 992, 768,480); // the resolution break-points touse (screen widths, in pixels)...

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !assets RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !ai-cache RewriteRule .(?:jpe?g|gif|png)$ adaptive-images.php</IfModule>

$resolutions = array(1382, 992, 768,480); // the resolution break-points touse (screen widths, in pixels)

http://adaptive-images.com/

Responsive Data Tables

http://www.zurb.com/playground/responsive-tables

<table class="responsive"> <tr> …

http://css-tricks.com/examples/ResponsiveTables/responsive.php

@media only screen and (max-width: 760px), (min-device-width: 768px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) {! /* Force table to not be like tables anymore */! table, thead, tbody, th, td, tr {! ! display: block;! }! /* Hide table headers (but not display: none;, for accessibility) */! thead tr {! ! position: absolute;! ! top: -9999px;! ! left: -9999px;! }! td {! ! /* Behave like a "row" */! ! border: none;! ! border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;! ! position: relative;! ! padding-left: 50%;! }

! td:before {! ! /* Now like a table header */! ! position: absolute;! ! /* Top/left values mimic padding */! ! top: 6px;! ! left: 6px;! ! width: 45%;! ! padding-right: 10px;! ! white-space: nowrap;! }! /* Label the data */! td:nth-of-type(1):before { content: "First Name"; }! td:nth-of-type(2):before { content: "Last Name"; }! td:nth-of-type(3):before { content: "Job Title"; }! td:nth-of-type(4):before { content: "Favorite Color"; }! td:nth-of-type(5):before { content: "Wars of Trek?"; }! td:nth-of-type(6):before { content: "Porn Name"; }! td:nth-of-type(7):before { content: "Date of Birth"; }! td:nth-of-type(8):before { content: "Dream Vacation City"; }! td:nth-of-type(9):before { content: "GPA"; }! td:nth-of-type(10):before { content: "Arbitrary Data"; }}

Polyﬁlls

http://modernizr.com/

.no-boxshadow { ...}

https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-browser-Polyﬁlls

https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond

Resources

FrameworksWhich Is Right for Me? 22 Responsive CSS Frameworks and Boilerplates Explained(Joshua Johnson) - August 2012http://designshack.net/articles/css/which-is-right-for-me-22-responsive-css-frameworks-and-boilerplates-explained/15 More Responsive CSS Frameworks & Boilerplates Worth Considering - August2012http://speckyboy.com/2012/08/21/15-more-responsive-css-frameworks-boilerplates-worth-considering/

NavigationResponsive Navigation Patterns (Brad Frost) - February 2012http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/web/responsive-nav-patterns/Complex Navigation Patterns for Responsive Design (Brad Frost) - August 2012http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/web/complex-navigation-patterns-for-responsive-design/10 Responsive Navigation Solutions and Tutorials - August 2012http://speckyboy.com/2012/08/29/10-responsive-navigation-solutions-and-tutorials/10 Tips How To Handle Responsive Navigation Menus Successfully (Sabina Idler) -October 2012http://blog.usabilla.com/10-tips-how-to-handle-responsive-navigation-menus-successfully/

PreprocessorsSass And LESS: An Introduction To CSS Preprocessors (Steven Bradley) - April 2012http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/css-preprocessors/An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass (Jeremy Hixon) - September2011http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/09/an-introduction-to-less-and-comparison-to-sass/Responsive Web Design in Sass: Using Media Queries in Sass 3.2 (Mason Wendell)- April 2012http://thesassway.com/intermediate/responsive-web-design-in-sass-using-media-queries-in-sass-32Create faster ﬂuid layouts with LESS (Paul Mist) - August 2012http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/create-faster-ﬂuid-layouts-less

Other Image SolutionsResponsive Imageshttps://github.com/ﬁlamentgroup/Responsive-ImagesRetina.jshttp://retinajs.com/FitVids.js (video)http://ﬁtvidsjs.com/

Responsive ImagesW3C Responsive Images Community Grouphttp://www.w3.org/community/respimg/Which responsive images solution should you use? - May 2012http://css-tricks.com/which-responsive-images-solution-should-you-use/Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point (Mat Marquis) - May2012http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-images-and-web-standards-at-the-turning-point/Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems (Dave Rupert) - September 2012http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mo-pixels-mo-problems/Compressive Images (Scott Jehl) - October 2012http://ﬁlamentgroup.com/lab/rwd_img_compression/

Resources: Responsive TablesA Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tableshttp://ﬁlamentgroup.com/lab/responsive_design_approach_for_complex_multicolumn_data_tables/Responsive Data Tables with jQueryhttp://mobifreaks.com/coding/responsive-data-tables-jquery/Responsive Patterns: Table Patternshttp://bradfrost.github.com/this-is-responsive/patterns.html#tablesResponsive Data Tables and Screen Reader Accessibility (Jason Kiss) - August 2011http://www.accessibleculture.org/articles/2011/08/responsive-data-tables-and-screen-reader-accessibility/jQuery Mobile Column Toggle Table Modehttp://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.3.0-beta.1/docs/tables/table-column-toggle.html

Prototyping & Design ProcessDive into Responsive Prototyping with Foundation (Jonathan Smiley) - April 2012http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dive-into-responsive-prototyping-with-foundation/Design Process In The Responsive Age (Drew Clemons) - May 2012http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/30/design-process-responsive-age/Responsive Web Design Sketch Sheetshttp://jeremypalford.com/arch-journal/responsive-web-design-sketch-sheetsStyle Tileshttp://styletil.es/

Books to ReadResponsive Web DesignEthan Marcotte (2011)http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design/Mobile FirstLuke Wroblewski (2011)http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-ﬁrstAdaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive EnhancementAaron Gustafson (2011)http://easy-readers.net/books/adaptive-web-design/Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere webTim Kadlec (2012)http://www.implementingresponsivedesign.com/

Other Websites & Misc.@RWDlinks about responsive design (Ethan Marcotte)https://twitter.com/RWDFuture Friendlymaking things that are future-friendlyhttp://futurefriend.ly/Brad Frostblog that covers responsive designhttp://bradfrostweb.com/blog/Mediaqueri.esinspirational websites using media queries and responsive web designhttp://mediaqueri.es/

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