A Responsive Web Design Podcast

A responsive redesign must build on the personality and narrative of the brand. Claudina Sarahe and Becki Choi from Casper share how they executed a second responsive design. Read more »

Instant.me obsessively covers the lives of digital stars. Kirstin Benson and Neil Renicker tell us how they developed a responsive site and CMS that lives up to the brand promise. Read more »

Fans of modular web design will love hearing Andy Lechlak and Greg Jenkins describe an approach that enables librarians at the Toledo Public Library to build new pages from components. Read more »

Visitors to the website for Habita, a Turkish coworking space, may arrive on any device. Daniel Swakman and Levent Ocal explain how their collaborative process made it happen. Read more »

Una Kravets and Zach Schnackel tell us how they developed a faster and more accessible site for DigitalOcean and implemented a new front-end framework called Float. Read more »

Don’t believe that a beautiful, image-led publication can work well on smaller form factors? Paul Pensom and Patrick Burgoyne from Creative Review talk grids and type—and content management too. Read more »

One hundred episodes of a podcast, how did this happen? Ethan and Karen don’t know the answer to that question, nor can they answer many of the questions raised in this episode. Read more »

How does responsive design fit into large ecosystems, with touchpoints that span multiple devices and channels? Jonathon Thorpe from the Australian Tax Office talks about providing digital services at scale. Read more »

What is a web app? This episode won’t go there, but Daniel X Moore and Pirijan Ketheswaran from Fog Creek describe how they created a development environment for web applications called HyperDev. Read more »

Prepare be amazed and delighted by this beautiful, functional website aimed at spurring economic development in Ohio. Cindy DeVelvis and Emily Gray explain how they developed Ohio Certified Sites. Read more »

Rob Giampietro tells us about a year-long process to redesign Google Fonts, making the web faster and more beautiful with hundreds of free, open-source typefaces. Read more »

Michael Edelstone and Nick Wing from Texas State describe a responsive design and CMS replatforming that treats website visitors and content editors as if they are both users of the system. Read more »

What’s different when teams do their second responsive design? Leigh Shoemaker and Michael Purdy describe a process that’s even more collaborative for the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Read more »

Michal Skrzypek and Kate Tetreault describe how the iterative testing culture at America’s Test Kitchen helped them work more collaboratively during a responsive design. Read more »

With rising income inequality, the Communist Party USA is attracting new members—and those people are on mobile devices. Mike Votto and Pankaj Jain show how a responsive redesign helps reach them. Read more »

A mobile-first perspective is also a performance-first perspective at Vox Media. Dan Chilton and Guillermo Esteves talk about how they helped build a culture of performance. Read more »

Even though the Cincinnati Art Museum might later want to introduce apps for in-gallery use, the first order of business was a responsive website. Nicole Kroger and Jeff Webster tell us why. Read more »

Prototyping tool Marvel App needed a style guide to enforce brand consistency. Colm Tuite and Yavor Punchev advocate for single-purpose CSS classes. Read more »

How many economists read American Economic Association journals on their phone? Jenna Kutz and Matt Griffin describe a process that makes the AEA more accessible to everyone. Read more »

How does responsive design fit in to an ecosystem based mostly on apps? Zach Forrest explains that design patterns created for Sonos may eventually extend from web to native apps. Read more »

Who hasn’t fantasized about (and feared) a gut renovation of their website? Tiffany Campbell and Scott Dasse describe the redesign and relaunch of a beta site for WBUR. Read more »

If the goal of a library is to respond to the needs of the community, then its website should do the same. Toby Greenwalt and Matt Griffin describe the redesign of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Read more »

Why go responsive for MyMSD, a service that helps people in New Zealand manage their benefits? Julia McConnell and Miriam Walker say their research showed people were likely to use low-end smartphones. Read more »

The relaunch of Curbed includes an updated CMS platform and a new brand identity. Lauren Rabaino and Yesenia Perez-Cruz tell us this redesign reaches readers wherever they are. Read more »

The Responsive Issues Community Group advocates for tools that make responsive designers and developers’ day-to-day jobs easier. We talk to Mat Marquis about responsive images—and more. Read more »

Imagine you’re embarking on a CMS replatforming and website redesign. Ethan and Karen explain how a modular design process that puts content modeling and design patterns first will help you. Read more »

Think a small publisher can’t afford to go responsive? They can’t afford not to. Brian Halweil and Lauren Wilson talk about the redesign of the Edible publications in the New York area. Read more »

Yet another travel brand tells us that responsive design is the right way to go. Frank de Boer and Jan Willem Kluivers describe how they sped up development and improved customer satisfaction at KLM. Read more »

If you like podcasts and responsive design, you might like us—but you will LOVE this episode with Kurt Kohlstedt and Andrea Tomingas from 99% Invisible. Read more »

Authentic Jobs advertises open positions for web designers and developers, so it only makes sense that they would want to go responsive. Cameron Moll and Adam Spooner tell us how. Read more »

Jeremy Taylor and Joyce Leung tell us that by creating a prototype and focusing on performance, they were able to redesign Realtor.com to work better for customers and their team. Read more »

Lauren Young and Kevin Gilsdorf explain how a responsive redesign of Celestial Seasonings helped fix the “busyness” of the previous site by prioritizing the most important content and information. Read more »

If you’ve ever looked up dictionary definitions just for fun you will love the new responsive Merriam-Webster site. Lisa Schneider and Ringo Lertprecha tell us about their process. Read more »

Fans of civic design: Listen to Lauren Lockwood, Chief Digital Officer for the City of Boston discuss the rollout of a pilot responsive website and Drupal CMS for Boston.gov. Read more »

How does the MIT Technology Review meet people where they are? Erik Pelletier and Tito Bottitta tell us their responsive redesign helped them adapt to the needs of readers and advertisers on the web. Read more »

As more veterans return home from Iraq and Afghanistan, they’ll need help from the VA on their mobile devices. Emily Wright-Moore and Danny Chapman tell us about the beta release of vets.gov. Read more »

Naa Marteki Reed and Dan Munz describe the cultural shifts that happened within the CFPB to make responsive the baseline—and to deliver more robust products more quickly. Read more »

Imagine you have hundreds of websites in multiple languages. Do you want to add m-dot sites to the mix? Becca Jenkins explains why the U.S. Department of State is migrating their mission websites to a unified responsive platform. Read more »

Omnichannel UX requires device-specific web strategies, right? America’s largest retailer says no. Mini Kurhan and Olawale Oladunni tell us responsive design works for Walmart. Read more »

For MIO, a retailer making sustainable home products, responsive design means sustainability online. Jamie Salm and Aaron Mentele explain how a redesign improves business metrics. Read more »

Another year, another year of podcast episodes. In this episode, we recap the highlights of 2015. (Spoiler alert, it was a great year.) Read more »

Think a company largely focused on native apps has no need for responsive design? Chris Saint-Amant and Anna Blaylock explain that web and apps are complementary at Netflix. Read more »

Think a company like Facebook, with more than a billion mobile users, couldn’t go responsive? Mike Finch tells us they already are for products like code.facebook.com. They’re starting small. Read more »

Responsive design often goes hand-in-hand with a pattern library. Mollie Ruskin and Julia Elman explain how the U.S. Web Design Standards makes government websites more consistent and easier to build. Read more »

We go meta, talking to web designer/developers Chris Coyier and Katie Kovalcin about the redesign of CodePen, a product for web designers and developers. Read more »

A true multi-platform strategy for Science Friday means responsive web design. Christian Skotte and Mark Llobrera describe a content-first process based on why users visit the site. Read more »

Serious Eats is the best and now it’s responsive so it’s even better. Tracie Lee and Paul Cline tell us how sketching, design components, and a decoupled CMS made a redesign possible. Read more »

How do you provide customer support for a largely mobile audience? With responsive design! Justin Lucas tells us about the redesign of help.npr.org. Read more »

We love The Toast so much we wanted to make it better. So we redesigned it! Eileen Webb and Jeff Eaton are here to represent the rest of the team who made this project go so smoothly. Read more »

Mobile users and desktop users do not need different information—even on a transit site. Maureen Sheehan and Paul Bellows show how they meet the needs of all their users at BC Transit. Read more »