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Responsive Design Workflow 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Stephen Hay (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
Forget fixed-width Photoshop comps, bloated client requirements, and overproduced wireframes. Yesterday’s web design deliverables fail to take into account the demands of responsive solutions. Design workflow hasn’t really changed, but best practices have. This book shows you how to adapt to the new paradigm and create sites for today’s web. Some of the strategies you’ll learn include:
  • how to better manage client expectations and development requirements
  • a practical approach for designing in the browser
  • documentation methods that outperform static Photoshop comps
  • a method for visualizing the points where responsive designs change
After absorbing the lessons in this book, you’ll leave behind old-school workflows and start working in ways that are uniquely suited to today’s multi-platform web.
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    978-0133257069
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Publisher
    New Riders
  4. Publication date
    April 2, 2013
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
    24.7 MB
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Native Californian STEPHEN HAY has been living and working in the Netherlands since 1992, and he’s been designing for the web since 1995. His roots as a designer and art director in corporate identity, packaging design, and advertising served as a foundation for his current work as a web design and development strategist through his own user experience consultancy, Zero Interface. Stephen speaks at industry events and writes about CSS, web accessibility, open web standards, and design.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00C5HRV7Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Riders; 1st edition (April 2, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 2, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 24.7 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 389 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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Customers find the book well-written and easy to read, with one mentioning it's particularly suitable for beginning and intermediate responsive web designers/developers. They consider it worth the price of admission.

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Customers appreciate the book's approach to responsive design, finding it simple and valuable, with one customer noting it's particularly suitable for beginners and intermediates.

"...book for understanding and providing a simple, down-to-earth approach to responsive web design. It's well written,and fun and easy to read...." Read more

"...This book has some incredible things to say about web designer workflows for the modern day, and some great advice about tools as well...." Read more

"Stephen does an excellent job of not only proposing a better workflow, but of walking the reader through it as well...." Read more

"...for that alone to see a basic (and i mean very basic) workflow for a responsive site...." Read more

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Customers find the book well written and easy to read.

"...It's well written,and fun and easy to read...." Read more

"...The book is not too difficult to read, but to really comprehend each concept and practice, does take a bit more time...." Read more

"...pages, this book is ok, or even recommended, it's probably a good book to check out...." Read more

"...I found that the beginning of the book was quite good in terms of explaining how responsive designs worked, but the author quickly started talking..." Read more

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Customers find the book worth its price.

"...Overall, a good read, and very valuable, but could be formatted and organized for better and easier use." Read more

"...This is valuable I felt and almost worth the price of admission for that alone to see a basic (and i mean very basic) workflow for a responsive site..." Read more

"...I figured, "what the hell", it's not expensive, so if it sucks like most other books I've bought in this genre, no big deal...." Read more

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  • Joel Chaban
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for beginning and intermediate responsive web designers/developers
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2013
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    This is a wonderful book for understanding and providing a simple, down-to-earth approach to responsive web design. It's well written,and fun and easy to read. I'd recommend it to anyone who is getting into responsive design and development and for anyone who is into responsive web development who is looking for a way to organize the design and development of a responsive web project.
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  • John Ellison
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, Great Concepts | Room for Imrpovement
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014
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    I read this book after reading Jon Duckett's HTML& CSS. This book has some incredible things to say about web designer workflows for the modern day, and some great advice about tools as well. Mr. Hay is obviously an extremely intelligent expert in his field, and he gets his points across well.

    The book is not too difficult to read, but to really comprehend each concept and practice, does take a bit more time.

    My main criticism in this book is that it neither takes the step-by-step tutorial route, nor the high-level conceptual 'this is what you need to know--do it your own way' route. I really miss having code summaries like in Jon Duckett's HTML & CSS book, for the first chapters especially.

    Mr. Hay walks you through a very simple mutli-device live-wireframing process and scatters code throughout. There is not a single page that says, "Okay, here's how your HTML and CSS should look up til now." Yes, you can access the code through his website, but I just LOVE the way Jon Duckett and his publishers decided to portray very similar information.

    Overall, a good read, and very valuable, but could be formatted and organized for better and easier use.
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  • Charles Hall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth sharing among your Creative and Development teams.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2013
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    Stephen does an excellent job of not only proposing a better workflow, but of walking the reader through it as well. The most valuable insight I picked up here was one of the actual deliverables – a breakpoint graph – very simple and elegant.
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  • Greg
    3.0 out of 5 stars Ok for client facing
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2013
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    If you're a client facing sketch artist of web pages, this book is ok, or even recommended, it's probably a good book to check out.

    If you're looking or CSS knowledge or a lots of good RWD patterns I'd look at other books as this is light as Dairy Queen ice cream, it's all just air in these portions, it's really more of a client facing, rapid wireframe advisor than anything else.

    This book does offer valuable advice while most of it is not necessarily for the serious web developer, but more for the big picture guy that pitches the ideas. It does offer one piece of advice for the developer that I took to heart and that's designing for mobile first then expanding to larger screen sizes. This is valuable I felt and almost worth the price of admission for that alone to see a basic (and i mean very basic) workflow for a responsive site. However I also feel money could be better spent if a responsive web design work flow is really what you want to see rather than a lot of client-facing advice (albeit valuable for the client-facing individual).
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  • bszen27
    2.0 out of 5 stars More about workflow than responsive design
    Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2014
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    I was quite excited to read this book, because responsive design is becoming a HUGE part of web development these days. People are moving away from separately developed mobile sites and relying on a streamlined user experience where elements shift based on browser width (usually) using media queries. This has become even bigger with the popularity of Twitter Bootstrap, which is completely responsive.

    I found that the beginning of the book was quite good in terms of explaining how responsive designs worked, but the author quickly started talking about his personal workflow including using archaic command-line topics. I would look for another text that provides more detailed examples.
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  • Chris Wigley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book if you give a sh!t about what you do
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2013
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    At my current job, we are currently dealing with shedding the old processes and donning the new, but we didn't really know where to start. We knew what to do, generally speaking, but it was a jumbled mess of ideas and half-commitments. I picked up this book based on a recommendation from someone I follow on Twitter. I figured, "what the hell", it's not expensive, so if it sucks like most other books I've bought in this genre, no big deal. From page 1, I was nodding my head in agreement as the author explained horrible experience after horrible experience. From there, the bulb started to go off, and soon my ideas were starting to coalesce as I read page after page of Hay's insightful words, and terse explanations and arguments. I shared praise of the book with another co-worker, and we are now working to incorporate the many ideas and suggestions found in this book. Why? Because we give a sh!t about what we do and how we do it. If you do too, then you should buy this book.
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  • J.Turner
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good tool
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015
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    There is some good information in here, there is alot that i don't really subscribe to personally, but it is a valuable book reguardless
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  • Brian J Anthony
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2013
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    Written very well and the color examples go with the content to explain the material. I recommend it for anyone wanting to learn a design workflow.
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  • JulioCorral
    4.0 out of 5 stars Una buena base para entender el concepto de RWD
    Reviewed in Spain on May 24, 2013
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    Este libro es una buena referencia para entender que es y como implementar el RWD (Responsive Web Design) en tus proyectos, Está bastante dedicado a enseñar los conceptos más que a la realización de un proyecto en sí.
    Un buen libro.
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  • THIERRY MICHEL
    5.0 out of 5 stars Réflexion intelligente, complète et pratique sur le processus de création web
    Reviewed in France on August 6, 2013
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    Rien a redire.
    Une référence en la matiére.
    A utiliser directement tel quel ou comme bonne base de réflexion pour faire évoluer son workflow.
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  • Tady Walsh
    5.0 out of 5 stars RWD FTW
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2013
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    Ever since Ethan Marcotte started us off on the Responsive Web Design path, we've all jumped headlong into it and moved, almost foolishly, into accommodating every type of device screen. This book, while I have to admit I haven't finished it yet, gives great insight into the "how" of planning a responsive design. Whether you are a designer, a ui developer or a front end guru, this book, in the way that "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug helped us consider usability, will ensure and encourage that your workflow is solid and, in some cases, even ensure that you have a workflow!
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  • Markus Wilhelm
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dieses Buch bietet viele Ideen zum Thema "Workflow"
    Reviewed in Germany on November 5, 2013
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    Ich arbeite nun seit fast 8 Jahren an Webdesign Projekten und muss sagen das mir dieses Buch eine Komplett neue Herangehensweise gezeigt hat. Wie Stephan Hey schreibt, muss man selber entscheiden welche Aspekte und welche Sachen man genau für seinen Workflow übernimmt. Aber der von ihm Beschriebene Fall ist leicht und gut verständlich erklärt.

    Ich kann das Buch jedem empfehlen, der sich mit dem Thema Responsive Design oder auch Webdesign beschäftigt
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  • Kivi Shapiro
    5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, hands-on directions for making great websites
    Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2020
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    This book provides not only solid philosophies for web design--content first, universal design, etc.--but also practical steps for how to implement them. Very readable, very useful.
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