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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. 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.

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    Filed under: technology

  2. 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.

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    Filed under: media and publishing

  3. 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.

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    Filed under: ethan and karen

  4. 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.

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    Filed under: government

  5. Episode 99: HyperDev

    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.

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    Filed under: technology

  6. 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.

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    Filed under: travel and local

  7. 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.

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    Filed under: technology

  8. 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.

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    Filed under: education

  9. 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.

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    Filed under: education

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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