Responsive design has been around for a few years now, and we can’t see it disappearing off the radar anytime soon.
With that in mind, here’s a list of 40 of the most interesting articles and resources we’ve found to help you improve your responsive design skills and knowledge.
Whether you’re just starting out or you’re perfectly comfortable with the principles, there’s bound to be something here for you to get your teeth into.
Enjoy!
Style Tiles
“Style Tiles are a design deliverable consisting of fonts, colors and interface elements that communicate the essence of a visual brand for the web.”
Gridpak
A fantastic responsive grid generator to make responsive design easier.
Sketchsheets for responsive web design
A big list of sketchsheets and tools you can use to draw out your designs in various resolutions for a range of different devices.
How to develop a responsive workflow
“With the introduction of RWD, it is vital that we as designers evolve our workflow to better suit the demands of the new web. Many of us have voiced our frustrations on how Photoshop’s fixed pixel approach is unsuitable for designing the fluid layouts needed for a responsive website but no useful alternatives have been offered.”
Adobe Edge Inspect
A handy tool for testing designs in different settings.
Responsive web design with physical units
“This post should be titled “Getting Ahead of Yourself.” “…By a Few Years,” actually. Here’s the deal: at the time I’m writing this, early 2013, there’s no way to accurately design for the Web using physical units, nor will there be for a very long time. But there is a way to design while knowing the physical characteristics of the device — or, at least, there will be in the very near future.”
The responsinator
See what your website looks like in different resolutions in real time.
Responsive web design workflow considerations
“...as designers and developers how do we optimize our workflow efficiently? Just as responsive web design is evolving continuously, so will the responsive web design workflow.”
Responsive web design workflow considerations
Resize your browser to match popular devices (or choose your own size) quickly and easily.
Responsive design breakpoints
A short explanation and outline of breakpoints in responsive design.
Mixing responsive design and mobile templates
“You need a mobile strategy for your site. You have to pick Responsive Design or a dedicated mobile site, right? Maybe not. Maybe you can mix and match a variety of strategies.”
Responsive admin templates
A selection of fantastic responsive templates for admin panels and backends.
Responsive design: the problem with mobile ads and how it can be overcome
“But while there are many benefits to using responsive design, there are still major problems to be overcome in regards to advertising. At the moment ad formats are generally incompatible with responsive design, forcing site owners to either find hacks to rescale them or hide the ads altogether on mobile screens.”
The new rules of the responsive web
“As responsive web design gained steam, the way we build websites changed. As the term moves from buzzword into a common part of every web design project, the way we work as web professionals needs to change. With this in mind, we need to lay some new ground rules for how we work.”
Foundation
An excellent framework for responsive design.
The responsive calculator
“Just a simple calculator to help turn your PSD pixel perfection into the start of your responsive website.”
Adaptive images
“Adaptive Images detects your visitor’s screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page’s embeded HTML images. No mark-up changes needed.”
Responsive design with mockups
“Many Mockups users are doing responsive layouts on their projects or are planning to. We’ve been talking with the Balsamiq community about how Mockups can work with responsive web design concepts, and we thought we’d explore some techniques that might help.”
Picture fill
“A responsive images approach that you can use today, that mimics the proposed picture element using divs, for safety sake.”
Seamless responsive photos grid
“Let’s say you have a bunch of images you want to display, and the goal is to get them edge-to-edge on the browser window with no gaps. Just because you think that would be cool. They are of all different sizes. You don’t care if they are resized, but they should maintain their aspect ratio.”
The semantic grid system
“Page layout for tomorrow. Set column and gutter widths, choose the number of columns, and switch between pixels and percentages. All without any .grid_x classes in your markup.”
ProtoFluid
“Rapid prototyping of fluid layouts, adaptive CSS and responsive design.”
Building a better responsive website
“Earlier this year, I was in the beginning stages of a redesign for our company’s website. We had already been planning to use a straightforward responsive approach to Web design, which is our preferred solution for multi-device support…”
Overthrow: An overflow polyfill for responsive design
“Overthrow.js is a conservative attempt at filling the gaps in overflow support, with an emphasis on letting native implementations do their thing, and ensuring a usable experience in all browsers.”
Isotope
“An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts.”
Elastislide
“Elastislide is a responsive image carousel that will adapt fluidly in a layout. It is a jQuery plugin that can be laid out horizontally or vertically with a pre-defined minimum number of shown images.”
jQuery Masonry
“Masonry is a dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip-side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.”
FitVids.js
“A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.”
Susy: Responsive grids for Compass
“Susy is based on Natalie Downe’s CSS Systems, made possible by Sass, and made easy with Compass. You can use it anywhere, from static sites to Django, Rails, Wordpress and more.”
Responsivepx
“Enter the url to your site - local or online: both work - and use the controls to adjust the width and height of your viewport to find exact breakpoint widths in pixels. Then use that information in your media queries to create a responsive design.”
SimpleGrid
“Responsive. Infinite nesting. One class per element. Simple.”
Responsive website design testing tool
“This tool has been built to help with testing your responsive websites while you design and build them.”
Tiny Fluid Grid
“The happy & awesome way to build fluid grid based websites.”
Responsively retrofitting an existing site with RWD Retrofit
“The most important question on everyone’s mind — clients and developers alike — is, “How can we provide a great Web experience to our users on mobile?””
Screenqueries
Test your website’s responsiveness.
Blueberry
“Introducing a jQuery image slider written specifically for responsive web design.”
Responsive slides
“Simple & lightweight responsive slider plugin (in 1kb).”
Responsive wireframes
“Responsive layouts, responsively wireframed. Made with HTML/CSS, this is a simple interactive experiment with responsive design techniques.”
Beginner’s guide to responsive web design
“Over the past year, responsive design has become quite the hot topic in the web design community. If all the buzz has you feeling like Rip Van Winkle waking up in the 21st century, this summary will help you catch up with the times.”
Responsive web navigation tutorial
“One of the trickiest parts to be responsified on a website is “the Navigation”, this part is really important for the website accessibility, as this is one of the ways visitors jump over the web pages.”
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