Responding to Responsive - A Designer's Guide to Adapting

There’s no denying that a designer’s role is changing. Responsive Design has made the whole process much more complex. Designers are now expected to be equal parts artist and coder, and to use HTML, CSS & Javascript as their palette. I’ve met that challenge, and I‘ve spent the last few years working on several large, responsive Drupal sites. This talk will include a candid, real-world look at my personal evolving design process, as well as lessons from my own personal journey as a designer.

Topics include:

• A thorough walkthrough of responsive design deliverables: Content Strategy, HTMLWireframes, Style Tiles, & Style Mocks. Examples will be shown.
• Managing the expectations of Clients, Users and Developers
• Keeping the focus on User Experience
• Real world successes and failures
• A fight to the death between Photoshop & In-Browser design
• Creating a better iterative process
• Bridging the gap between design and front-end development
• Embracing the concept of Kaizen (continuous improvement) as a designer