May 25, 2010
Fluid grids + flexible images + media queries = responsive web design. Plus: Remote user testing. Excuses no longer apply.
Responsive Web Design
by Ethan Marcotte
Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to appropriate these constraints: using fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries, he shows us how to embrace the “ebb and flow of things” with responsive web design.
Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing
by Nate Bolt
User research doesn’t have to be expensive and time-consuming. With online applications, you can test your designs, wireframes, and prototypes over the phone and your computer with ease and aplomb. Nate Bolt shows the way.
