You’d learn a lot if your first responsive project was for SB Nation, one of the most popular sports sites on the web with more than 70 million unique users. For Trei Brundrett, Chief Product Officer for Vox Media, going responsive means iteratively improving an entire network of media brands.

Starbucks considers mobile to be the first customer touchpoint. Lincoln Mongillo tells us why managing for “one web” forces them to focus on what’s important, and puts performance, accessibility, and security at the center of their design process.

Sure, the page is dead, but now what? If you’re Code for America, you work with Clearleft to develop a pattern library and a component-based CMS built in Jekyll to deliver a new responsive website. Cyd Harrell and Jeremy Keith tell us about their fast-paced, iterative process.

One of the questions we’re often asked is “Responsive is great for consumer sites, but is it really necessary for B2B brands?” Chris Collette explains that “lawyers are people too” when he talks about implementing a mobile first, responsive redesign for one of New York’s largest law firms.

Publishers must take advantage of increased traffic on mobile. But how? Scher Foord of Condé Nast explains how rolling out responsive redesigns across all their magazine brands helps them adapt to changing consumer behavior and meet advertiser demand.

When you step onto the grounds of Harvard University, you expect well-kept lawns and good signage. The same is true when you visit any of Harvard’s digital properties. Chief Digital Officer Perry Hewitt tells us how they focus on strategy and a collaborative process.

From the LA Times, Megan Garvey and Emily Smith tell us their responsive redesign delivers an improved experience for users, offers advertisers a better environment for their campaigns, and gave their journalists a morale boost with a website they could be proud of.

Virgin America recently launched an elegant, streamlined new website. Their CIO Dean Cookson and agency partner Joe Stewart from Work and Co. tell us that co-located teams with constant communication, a focus on prototyping, and obsession with user goals is what helped them pare down the experience.

We’re back with Capital One for the second episode in a two-part series. Rob Huddleston and Brian Dillon dig into the implementation details, explaining how a component CMS and modular design system helped them deliver a complete responsive redesign.