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How to Start Doing Responsive Design

My pal Trent Walton has a good write-up of how you can get started doing response web design if up to this point you’ve only been designing and developing for the desktop.

I get my fair share of questions about how to choose a direction and chart out the first few steps from industry comrades and potential clients. It can seem daunting, so I thought I’d attempt to sum up a few of my own current thoughts on the matter.

Trent covers the basics, even a good approach to breakpoints:

Fine-tuning breakpoints to the design rather than the device will make your responsive layout ready for just about any new device the market may throw at it.

A highly recommended read: Where to Start

Posted on Feb 11, 2013 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: Design, Development Tools, Life as a Web Professional