Responsive Mobile Design: Designing for Every Device

Create Web Designs That Work Perfectly on Any DeviceSimply and Beautifully!

Billions of people access the web via smartphones, tablets, and devices of all types, using every imaginable interface and display. But they all want the same thing: the right information, right now, delivered in the most aesthetically pleasing way possible. Give them what they want with Responsive Mobile Design .

Whether youre a developer, designer, or manager, Phil Dutson teaches you principles, techniques, and best practices for delivering a successful experience to all users on all devices.

Dutson shows how to design sites that are responsive from the start, while keeping development simple and flexible. Next, he delivers complete technical know-how for transforming responsive designs into responsive sites. Youll find coverage of key issues such as integrating media content, optimizing performance, and serving Retina or high-density displays.

Throughout, he combines detailed and practical explanations with functional, easy-to-reuse code snippets.

Coverage includes
Demonstrating why mobile first is still a best practice
Fusing content, structure, and beauty to deliver experiences users love
Using responsive images to improve speed and convey visual messages more effectively
Using grid systems without making it feel like your design is locked in a box
Mastering measurement values such as px, em, rem, and viewport unitsand understanding their crucial differences
Improving the finer details of your design with web fonts
Retrofitting current websites to prepare them for the future
Introducing web components into your HTML markup
Using built-in browser development tools to streamline debugging and in-browser prototyping

Phil Dutson is a Solution Architect over client-side and mobile implementation for ICON Health & Fitness. He is the author ofSams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile in 24 Hours; jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile Recipes and Examples; andThe Android Developers Cookbook, 2nd Edition. He enjoys learning and writing about technology, and spreading enlightenment to the world one portal at a time with his sons playing Ingress.