![]() ![]() ![]() Designer Laura Kalbag recommends that while designing, “imagine how each component will work if the screen becomes larger or smaller.” The web (and ex-print) designer says to embrace RWD, you must now become comfortable with a lack of control, and instead of defining layouts by working inwards from a canvas, do the opposite and work content-out.Ībove all, come to terms with layouts no longer being static. “People got sucked into a notion of control that never really existed online – we just made it up,” adds Mark Boulton ( ). Laura Kalbag’s sites are clean and stylish “The Photoshop comp of a desktop and mobile site… One or more canvas-based ‘snapshots’… That’s where a lot of designers still are, and it can be hard to move on,” explains designer Andy Clarke. ![]() However, the mindset required to design responsive layouts can be tough to grasp for designers used to creating layouts for print. When used well, responsive design offers a pleasing user experience for the visitor, and is efficient and cost-effective for the creators, and for fixed website designs. Responsive layout tool update#Other popular reasons to use responsive design are to make ongoing iteration easier – as you only have to update a single site design – and to remove the need to create separate mobile and desktop sites, though some still prefer to do this. Responsively designed sites can theoretically be fluid enough to offer an optimal experience on any screen but sometimes they are optimised for certain ‘break points’ based on the common screen sizes of desktop monitors, laptops, tablets and mobile phones. In its place are designs that change to suit the size and device they are viewed on. Responsive web design (RWD) breaks the fixed canvas of traditional online site layouts. ![]()
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