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The term “responsive web design” has failed — Frances Berriman

Those words (originally from a slide by Alex Russell) may seem rather provocative. But it is a fair reminder that design isn’t just about how it looks.

In this case, most people (including, at times, myself) have fallen foul of the trap described here. That of thinking that setting a few breakpoints for smaller screens is enough to be responsive.

It reminded me of Jakob Nielsen’s 2012 article in which he advocated building a complete separate mobile site. This was a controversial viewpoint at a time when responsive design was becoming seriously trendy.

But seven years on, can we truly say the mobile web is a great experience?

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Originally published on the IWMW (Institutional Web Management Workshop) blog, which is no longer online. The pace of change in the web and digital is dizzying. Looking back on my experiences of IWMW has certainly brought that home (not that I needed a reminder). Six years is a long time in digital IWMW is celebrating […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. The University of St Andrews prototype homepage aimed at external audiences has been unveiled this week. It is the outcome of over a year of work. It has been an eventful year for the digital communications team. One year […]

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Adapted from posts originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. This month I attended the Institutional Web Management Workshop at Northumbria University. The conference, aimed mainly at university web managers, has been running for 18 years. The theme of this year was rebooting the web, after a participant at last […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. One of the biggest issues we have had to tackle while working on the new Study at St Andrews website is the entrance requirements and country information section. The website contained a Flash world map that was considered to […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Did you know it is possible for webpages to print out in a print-friendly format automatically? From time to time we are asked if we can add ‘print-friendly’ pages to the website. But this functionality has always been on […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Earlier this month my colleague Gareth Saunders and I attended the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 (IWMW10), held at the University of Sheffield. It was my first time at IWMW, and since I still feel slightly new to the […]