Comments on: Responsive Design: Beyond the Blog

By: Dagomar Paulides

Dagomar Paulides — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:40:00 +0000

Just now working on a couple of responsive sites and I must say that planning is your friend. Also, make sure you have a good user experience designer at hand, it’s very easy to keep changing and tweaking.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:04:00 +0000

We’ve also been through a similar process – I like the way our designer ended up handling the options. http://www.deakin.edu.au/. Due to the large amount of content we’ve also got pages coming from a legacy CMS/dreamweaver publishing system.

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By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:15:00 +0000

I was interested to see the new Sony website: http://www.sony.com/index.php – this features an approach to converting a large drop-down navigation system for narrow (mobile) screen widths which I think works fairly well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:32:00 +0000

Yes I noticed that. Most disappointing.

By: Eldee Cat

Eldee Cat — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:21:00 +0000

http://www.essex.ac.uk ceased to use a responsive web design yesterday. It is now fixed width.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:19:00 +0000

We’ve been through the exact same things as you describe here when looking at responsive design.

We found that there is always a UI solution but the problems come when you start hiding large chunks of redundant code as you point out. If you then are forced into sniffing devices and serving different content based on them – perhaps you should be looking at a mobile solution rather than a responsive solution.

I wrote a post recently called ‘Solving a Responsive Design Navigation Problem’ – which you might find interesting. http://blog.bleepsystems.com/2012/solving-a-responsive-design-navigation-problem/

I present 3 simple ways to solve a navigation problem we were having.

By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:03:00 +0000

Yep, I think RD for big complex sites is hard, and retro-fitting it like this is even harder. Ideally we should probably be using the mobile experience as the starting point, but like you say, sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Looks like you are making a good effort!

By: Tammy White Cornett

Tammy White Cornett — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:49:00 +0000

We just made our IT (it.eku.edu) site responsive this week after a complete redesign and new content creation in August. Our goal with the redesign was to make it clear, concise, consistent and keep our content correct. The goal with the RWD was to make it easy on our users (students, faculty, staff) to find the IT support they need.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:39:00 +0000

Thanks for talking about complex responsive design. I’m completely bought in on RD but it’s frustrating no one is discussing it outside a basic blog design.

I’ve recently been tackling this exact problem on a site we are looking to redesign, check it out here http://crmobile.brianzmiller.com. I’ve decided, just as you have, to hide the mega menu for small screens and force the mobile users to navigate down to their desired page (mega menu was all short links).

I’m also experimenting with placing the nav at the bottom of the page instead of the top for mobile. If you look at app design, most have nav at the bottom. This allows your responsive mobile version to more closely resemble a native app design (which lets face it, native UI patterns are far better than responsive UI designs).