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Responsive Web Design


About the Podcast

This was a Responsive Web Design Podcast, co-hosted by Karen McGrane and Ethan Marcotte.

The podcast ended in 2018, but you can still browse the entire podcast archive below. In each episode, Karen and Ethan interview the people who make responsive redesigns happen.

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The podcast may have ended in 2018, but you can still subscribe! If you want the latest episodes, fire up your favorite podcasting app and subscribe via RSS, Google Play Music, or on iTunes.

  1. Suzanne Connaughton and Frank Punzo from CHOP tell us that a responsive redesign and CMS replatforming helped make their team more collaborative.

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    Filed under: healthcare

  2. The A.V. Club, The Onion, and ClickHole are truly digital publishing brands. Kelly Pratt and Kristi-Lynn Jacovino explain how they made them responsive, running off a single codebase.

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    Filed under: media and publishing

  3. Episode 29: Airbnb

    Airbnb has robust native apps and a majority of web traffic from desktop—and they still went responsive. Dave Augustine tells us a front end framework made it easy for them.

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    Filed under: travel and local

  4. Sixty-five percent of Outside Online readers are, well, mobile. Todd Hodgson and TJ Pitre show how a responsive redesign can deliver improved performance on a tight budget.

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    Filed under: media and publishing

  5. In part two of our conversation with Expedia, Travis Fleck and Tyler Fleck go into the details of what they learned rolling out and testing a responsive framework across the enterprise.

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    Filed under: travel and local

  6. Episode 26: Expedia

    Travel users are mobile, right? Expedia has experimented with native apps and separate mobile websites. Scott Kelton Jones and Jason Chandler explain why responsive design performs better.

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    Filed under: travel and local

  7. Episode 25: NPR

    NPR famously publishes to many different platforms. Patrick Cooper and Scott Stroud explain why they went responsive: to get more value from their limited resources.

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    Filed under: media and publishing

  8. Episode 24: Microsoft

    Chris Balt and Trent Walton explain how the high-profile initiative to redesign the Microsoft.com homepage demonstrated the benefits of going responsive to a large organization.

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    Filed under: technology

  9. Episode 23: PayPal

    Bill Scott and Mausami Dave-Shah from PayPal implemented a lean development methodology, which treats responsive web design as the foundation for their products in 203 countries.

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    Filed under: financial services

Work With Us

If you’re grappling with some of the responsive design challenges discussed on the show, Karen and Ethan offer a workshop on responsive design. Why not bring it to your company?

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The podcast may have ended in 2018, but you can still subscribe! If you want the latest episodes, fire up your favorite podcasting app and subscribe via RSS, Google Play Music, or on iTunes.



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