At large widths : stiiiill 100% of screen width. ![]() At medium widths : still 100% of screen width.At small widths : the element is 100% of screen.Anything that qualifies as “background” now looks reaaaaaally weird. Here I’ve messed with the dev tools to change Stripe’s homepage to have a max width. Some things (particularly things that section off the screen) just demand to be full-width, no matter what, because if they weren’t, it would look awkward. Hold that thought until we learn the next pattern.īy the way, why do we have the infinite-width pattern? Say it with me: because it’s what the content wants. Will some items perhaps be positioned hundreds or a thousand pixels from anything else? Perhaps. I call it the infinite-width pattern to stress that even as your screen size expands to infinity, so will these elements. Or top navigation areas, or when the screen is sectioned into parts : You typically see it with splash images : Infinite-width containers are those that expand with the screen width, no matter how big that is. I think you’re ready for something more complex now 2/ Infinite-Width Containers At small widths : pick some specific width (or relegate the element to a separate view).Or, at most, it will completely disappear on the smallest screens. The simplest responsive container will… do nothing at all. Section padding (in the image below, set to 20px inside of each section).Play nice, and align your sidebar to the grid?īut what happens if our screen width – and therefore our grid size – grows !? We’ve seen where this goes…įeel free to use the grids if they help you keep things aligned, but for the most part, your layout will work fine with just a few rulers to delineate 3 things : But if there’s a sidebar, what do you do? Get one set up even before you begin designing, they say. The Design Internet says grids are important. This has thrown off many of my students too. Ĭheck out the sidebar in the Learn UI Design course app:Ĭontent_luid-sidebar-percentage.png 579×728 There are some elements, that, at least while everything around them is shifting in size, stay completely the same. This is the simplest “responsive” pattern in that it doesn’t actually change (AKA respond) to screen size changes. Taken together, they create a framework for viewing responsive web behavior that, once you see it, you just can’t un-see. Are they technically all you need, ever? Definitely not. Here’s the four most useful responsive design patterns I know. And then listen to what your content wants.Get to know a couple responsive container patterns ….Instead of finagling "responsive grids”, I’m going to give you two steps: We put our best people on the problem, and they decided the answer to the completely amorphous and fluid size of modern viewports was to re-use the solution favored by poster designers a century ago… grids! You’ve heard me complain about grids (and tell you what to do instead). ![]() What used to be a single static image, exported from Photoshop and sent to the devs is now… two? three? four? How many images do we need, exactly? Or maybe our designs should be more fluid than a bunch of static images? Uhhh, does anyone know any prototyping tools!? ![]() With the advent of the miniature web browsers that we all carry around in our pockets – I’m talking about our phones, if you’re a little slow today – the whole issue of laying out a design got a LOT more complex. Today we’re going to talk about one of the most confusing aspects of layout: responsive design. These tips are pretty helpful for thinking through flexible designs in free-form environments (like Bubble) and understanding the why behind things like fixed width, max width, min width, etc. (Pasted below no direct link to read in browser). And wanted to share his most recent newsletter on responsive design patterns. I’ve pointed to Erik Kennedy’s design blog before as a solid resource for learning design.
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