A Responsive Web Design Podcast: Recent Episodes

Karen McGrane & Ethan Marcotte

A podcast from Karen McGrane and Ethan Marcotte, who interview the people who make responsive designs happen.

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This week’s spotlight shines on Cleve Gibbon, who talks to Karen about the facts and fiction of developing more personalized content.

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Hold your horses and rein in your enthusiasm for this episode with the United States Dressage Federation. Ben de Jesus and Chad Compton remained stable despite all our lame puns.

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Fans of libraries and information architecture will love hearing from Ann Arbor District Library executive director Josie Parker and information architect Peter Morville.

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How does a massive organization manage to unify countless responsive products? Mari Johannessen and Bethany Schwanke tell us how IBM created its Carbon design system.

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Yale Environment 360 covers news about climate change, energy policy, and other environmental news. Kat Bagley and Keri O’Brian tell us why they went responsive with their redesign.

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Ethan puts the spotlight on Chris Ferdinandi, a web developer helping people get over the “complete overwhelmingness” of JavaScript.

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Fans of responsive web design (and unicorn makeup) will want to hear Chrissie Webster and Linda Bustos explain how they met the needs of Lime Crime’s mobile audience.

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What the heck is web VR? Jonathan Puckey tells us about the tools and processes used to create an interactive experience, Dance Tonite, in collaboration with LCD Soundsystem.

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Public radio station WHYY serves the Philadelphia region with local programming and community events—and with a website that works across all devices. Rebecca Smith and Mark Llobrera tell us more.

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The FBI Crime Data Explorer makes a decade’s worth of crime data accessible. Amber Reed and Jeremia Kimelman tell us how they made it accessible to every device.

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Craftsmanship and a playful tone characterize the Slack brand. Arquay Harris tells us about how they brought that to life on the new Slack.com.

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Can responsive design work for a retailer that enables individuals and enterprises to create their own designs? Chad Jennings and Noëla Parant from MOO.com tell us “yes it can.”

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Responsive design is inclusive design. Sara Wachter-Boettcher explains how an empathetic approach to our “human-ness” makes for better product design.

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Single-source, multi-channel, omnichannel—what does it all mean for responsive web design. Noz Urbina helps us sort things out.

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We <3 Jeff Eaton.

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Design systems and responsive design go hand in hand. Jina Anne and Stephanie Rewis give us the lowdown on the Salesforce Lightning Design System.

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DonorsChoose.org helps connect donors with public school teachers who need resources or funding. Dan Betz and Tea Ho tell us about their design process.

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The IESO works within Ontario’s electrical sector. Nicole Hynum and Darrell Corriveau tell us about their mobile-first, content-centric process.

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We talk (again!) with The Atlantic about their latest responsive redesign. Spoiler alert: it is a stunning example of what responsive design can do for a publisher.

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SB Nation is a network of more than 300 sports websites. Yesenia Perez-Cruz and Sanette Tanaka tell us all about relaunching it on the Vox Media unified platform.

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Theirworld helps children achieve their potential. Ewan Watt and Ellen de Vries tell us how their innovative new responsive website helps with that mission.

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Amherst.edu is more than a college brochure—it’s the integrated platform for all their classroom learning tools. Roberta Diehl and Curt Kotula tell us about this massive redesign.

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This week the spotlight is on Thalida Noel, whose path to becoming a front-end engineer includes robotics, NASA, OkCupid, and now Etsy.

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This week we are joined by Sareh Heidari, a web developer at BBC News, who talks about accessibility, globalization, and CSS at scale.

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Independent product designer, front-end developer, digital nomad—Nicole Dominguez helps create more accessible technology and more inclusive teams.

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The accessibility group at the UK Home Office created a set of posters to explain accessibility from a design perspective. Karwai Pun tells us how these posters raise awareness.

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Content strategist and independent researcher B Cordelia Yu tells us about a variety of projects and practices for communicating effectively with different communities.

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This week we are joined by freelance developer and web performance advocate Henri Helvetica, who talks about fighting the good fight for faster websites.

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We talk a lot about how designs transform across devices. Senongo Akpem talks to us this week about how his design and illustration work explores a multicultural story across different societies.

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This week we’re joined by strategist Ron Bronson. We were hanging on his every word as he explained how to talk about the web to people who don’t really care.

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This week we talk to independent web animation consultant Val Head, whose recent book Designing Interface Animation is a must-read.

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This week the spotlight is on Mina Markham, who started in print design, developed the UI library for the Hillary Clinton campaign called Pantsuit, and now works as a senior engineer at Slack.

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Designer and art director Robyn Kanner tells us about developing a resource to help trans people get access to healthcare called MyTransHealth.

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Continuing our series of conversations with the people who make responsive designs happen, we chat with content strategist Michael Andrews, who tells us how metadata will make your content future-ready.

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In our continuing series about the people who make responsive designs happen, we talk with freelance front-end Web developer, Sara Soueidan.

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This episode kicks off a brief series of interviews with independent web designers. First up, we talk with Frank Chimero about his responsive design practice and the latest iteration of frankchimero.com.

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The Chosen presents cabinet nominees in an easy-to-read trading card format. Jessica Huseman and Rob Weychert describe how they developed this informative site for ProPublica.

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Pabini Gabriel-Petit tells us about the responsive redesign of long-time user experience design focused publication, UXmatters.

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Did you know you can file a Freedom of Information Act request right from your phone? Michael Morisy and Allan Lasser explain how MuckRock makes that possible.

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In the latest episode of the responsive web typography podcast, we talk to José Scaglione and Aaron Mentele about independent type foundry TypeTogether.

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Variable fonts are coming. How will it change the web design and development process? Tim Brown and Bram Stein explain how variable fonts will work and what you can do with them now.

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Paul Gee and Rob Wooten describe the process for designing and building a family of websites for the twelve medical journals published by the JAMA Network.

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Johannes Holmertz and Ulf Högberg describe the work-in-progress redesign of Swedish financial news platform DI.se.

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Karen and Ethan look back at some of the highlights of 2016, which was an uneventful year entirely focused on web design.

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Is responsive design the right solution when most users don’t visit on mobile devices? Jake Giltsoff and David Demaree from Typekit explain that responsive helps meet the needs of large-screen users too.

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Tidy design patterns make for an organized website. Custom closet retailer Organized Living found that a pattern library was the perfect fit. Mike Hickerson and Ryan Cromwell tell us more.

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Al Jones and Joe Walker from BBC Sport describe how rolling out a new responsive website has been based on components from their global experience language.

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Gadi Lahav from the Financial Times shares data that shows every second they made the site faster translates to a 5% percent increase in engagement, which means millions in subscriptions and ad sales.

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Canada is looking really great right about now and the website for the City of Edmonton is looking even better. Paul Strandlund and Dylan Rogowsky explain their commitment to accessibility for all.

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A responsive redesign must build on the personality and narrative of the brand. Claudina Sarahe and Becki Choi from Casper share how they executed a second responsive design.

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Instant.me obsessively covers the lives of digital stars. Kirstin Benson and Neil Renicker tell us how they developed a responsive site and CMS that lives up to the brand promise.

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Fans of modular web design will love hearing Andy Lechlak and Greg Jenkins describe an approach that enables librarians at the Toledo Public Library to build new pages from components.

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Visitors to the website for Habita, a Turkish coworking space, may arrive on any device. Daniel Swakman and Levent Ocal explain how their collaborative process made it happen.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Michal Skrzypek and Kate Tetreault describe how the iterative testing culture at America’s Test Kitchen helped them work more collaboratively during a responsive design.

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With rising income inequality, the Communist Party USA is attracting new members—and those people are on mobile devices. Mike Votto and Pankaj Jain show how a responsive redesign helps reach them.

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A mobile-first perspective is also a performance-first perspective at Vox Media. Dan Chilton and Guillermo Esteves talk about how they helped build a culture of performance.

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Even though the Cincinnati Art Museum might later want to introduce apps for in-gallery use, the first order of business was a responsive website. Nicole Kroger and Jeff Webster tell us why.

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Prototyping tool Marvel App needed a style guide to enforce brand consistency. Colm Tuite and Yavor Punchev advocate for single-purpose CSS classes.

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How many economists read American Economic Association journals on their phone? Jenna Kutz and Matt Griffin describe a process that makes the AEA more accessible to everyone.

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How does responsive design fit in to an ecosystem based mostly on apps? Zach Forrest explains that design patterns created for Sonos may eventually extend from web to native apps.

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Who hasn’t fantasized about (and feared) a gut renovation of their website? Tiffany Campbell and Scott Dasse describe the redesign and relaunch of a beta site for WBUR.

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If the goal of a library is to respond to the needs of the community, then its website should do the same. Toby Greenwalt and Matt Griffin describe the redesign of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

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Why go responsive for MyMSD, a service that helps people in New Zealand manage their benefits? Julia McConnell and Miriam Walker say their research showed people were likely to use low-end smartphones.

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The relaunch of Curbed includes an updated CMS platform and a new brand identity. Lauren Rabaino and Yesenia Perez-Cruz tell us this redesign reaches readers wherever they are.

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The Responsive Issues Community Group advocates for tools that make responsive designers and developers’ day-to-day jobs easier. We talk to Mat Marquis about responsive images—and more.

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Imagine you’re embarking on a CMS replatforming and website redesign. Ethan and Karen explain how a modular design process that puts content modeling and design patterns first will help you.

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Think a small publisher can’t afford to go responsive? They can’t afford not to. Brian Halweil and Lauren Wilson talk about the redesign of the Edible publications in the New York area.

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Yet another travel brand tells us that responsive design is the right way to go. Frank de Boer and Jan Willem Kluivers describe how they sped up development and improved customer satisfaction at KLM.

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If you like podcasts and responsive design, you might like us—but you will LOVE this episode with Kurt Kohlstedt and Andrea Tomingas from 99% Invisible.

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Authentic Jobs advertises open positions for web designers and developers, so it only makes sense that they would want to go responsive. Cameron Moll and Adam Spooner tell us how.

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Jeremy Taylor and Joyce Leung tell us that by creating a prototype and focusing on performance, they were able to redesign Realtor.com to work better for customers and their team.

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Lauren Young and Kevin Gilsdorf explain how a responsive redesign of Celestial Seasonings helped fix the “busyness” of the previous site by prioritizing the most important content and information.

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If you’ve ever looked up dictionary definitions just for fun you will love the new responsive Merriam-Webster site. Lisa Schneider and Ringo Lertprecha tell us about their process.

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Fans of civic design: Listen to Lauren Lockwood, Chief Digital Officer for the City of Boston discuss the rollout of a pilot responsive website and Drupal CMS for Boston.gov.

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How does the MIT Technology Review meet people where they are? Erik Pelletier and Tito Bottitta tell us their responsive redesign helped them adapt to the needs of readers and advertisers on the web.

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As more veterans return home from Iraq and Afghanistan, they’ll need help from the VA on their mobile devices. Emily Wright-Moore and Danny Chapman tell us about the beta release of vets.gov.

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Naa Marteki Reed and Dan Munz describe the cultural shifts that happened within the CFPB to make responsive the baseline—and to deliver more robust products more quickly.

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Imagine you have hundreds of websites in multiple languages. Do you want to add m-dot sites to the mix? Becca Jenkins explains why the U.S. Department of State is migrating their mission websites to a unified responsive platform.

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Omnichannel UX requires device-specific web strategies, right? America’s largest retailer says no. Mini Kurhan and Olawale Oladunni tell us responsive design works for Walmart.

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For MIO, a retailer making sustainable home products, responsive design means sustainability online. Jamie Salm and Aaron Mentele explain how a redesign improves business metrics.

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Another year, another year of podcast episodes. In this episode, we recap the highlights of 2015. (Spoiler alert, it was a great year.)

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Think a company largely focused on native apps has no need for responsive design? Chris Saint-Amant and Anna Blaylock explain that web and apps are complementary at Netflix.

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Think a company like Facebook, with more than a billion mobile users, couldn’t go responsive? Mike Finch tells us they already are for products like code.facebook.com. They’re starting small.

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Responsive design often goes hand-in-hand with a pattern library. Mollie Ruskin and Julia Elman explain how the U.S. Web Design Standards makes government websites more consistent and easier to build.

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We go meta, talking to web designer/developers Chris Coyier and Katie Kovalcin about the redesign of CodePen, a product for web designers and developers.

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A true multi-platform strategy for Science Friday means responsive web design. Christian Skotte and Mark Llobrera describe a content-first process based on why users visit the site.

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Serious Eats is the best and now it’s responsive so it’s even better. Tracie Lee and Paul Cline tell us how sketching, design components, and a decoupled CMS made a redesign possible.

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How do you provide customer support for a largely mobile audience? With responsive design! Justin Lucas tells us about the redesign of help.npr.org.

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We love The Toast so much we wanted to make it better. So we redesigned it! Eileen Webb and Jeff Eaton are here to represent the rest of the team who made this project go so smoothly.

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Mobile users and desktop users do not need different information—even on a transit site. Maureen Sheehan and Paul Bellows show how they meet the needs of all their users at BC Transit.

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What if site speed were actually a life-or-death matter? Kim Conger from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty worked with Dan Mall and Tim Kadlec to make performance the top priority.

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Think no one wants to read long articles on their phone? Ryan Essmaker and Brad Smith tell us The Great Discontent readers spend more time on their phones, so responsive design makes sense.

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Who visits the Royal Albert Hall on their phone? Louise Halliday and Jake Grimley report that designing mobile-first means a website that works better for everyone.

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Should retailers just accept low conversion rates on mobile? Eoin Comerford and Steve Anders from Moosejaw say it delivers business value to design—and redesign—responsively.

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Do you need to make your entire site responsive from the start? David Sleight from ProPublica explains that starting with individual feature stories is a safe way to experiment.

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We’ve recorded an entire year of podcast episodes. In this year-end retrospective, we talk about our forthcoming books and discuss the whole adaptive versus responsive debate.

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Responsive design is about more than fluid grids and media queries. Dave Olsen from West Virginia University explains how he advocates for content audits, pattern libraries, and in-browser prototyping.

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How do you support mobile users across more than 460 university websites? Turns out responsive design is the best answer, according to Erik Runyon from Notre Dame.

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How does a responsive design support storytelling? Sarah Thompson and Ethan Winn show how a collaborative process and a modular architecture helped Seventh Generation support their content strategy.

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Most companies have an existing website they want to make responsive. Ryan Mannion from OZY tells us about building and maintaining a site that’s been responsive from the start.

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Why would people browse fonts on their phone when they’re buying fonts for desktop computers? Jason Smith and Marcus Taylor explain why Fontsmith needs to work on every device.

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Can a responsive redesign change the way city government works? Geoffrey Daniel and Steve Fisher explain how this website project changed the way the City of Surrey interacts with citizens.

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How does Google make a responsive site that performs as fast as possible across a variety of different browsers? Malte Ubl and Wahbeh Qardaji explain their responsive design process for Google+.

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One of the most innovative digital publishers is 150-year-old The Atlantic. Libby Bawcombe and Betsy Ebersole explain how responsive design serves their customers who visit on both mobile and desktop.

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The BBC has spent the past four years developing their Responsive News site. Niko Vijayaratnam and John Cleveley provide an in-depth look at the process required to deliver this massive project.

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Game of Thrones’ rabid fan base means lots of social sharing on mobile. Joey Marburger and Shelly Tan describe their process for creating a responsive interactive feature for The Washington Post.

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Responsive and adaptive solutions can work together. Tom Stovicek from OpenTable explains why they went responsive but also maintain an m-dot site for some device-specific scenarios.

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A redesign of the Audubon website performed better than their wildest expectations. Mark Jannot and Mike Monteiro explain there wasn’t even a question about going responsive.

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“Responsive design is great if you have a blog, but it will never work for a complex financial application.” Einar Thor Gustafsson and Tinna Karen Gunnarsdottir from Meniga prove that myth false.

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The Wired redesign has it all: a new process based on prototyping, fresh design, structure, and publishing tools, increased ad inventory and viewability, and team-wide focus on speed.

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Brandon Rosage and Sophie Shepherd from Ushahidi tell us that focusing on performance and designing with a pattern library make a focused, usable product—in the developing world, and everywhere.

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Why build a responsive intranet? Mike Donahue from Citrix explains that thinking mobile first and focusing on content and accessibility means an intranet that works better for everyone, everywhere.

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Responsive web design is just web design. Justin McDowell and Elaine Nelson tell us how responsive fits in to their overall web strategy and management at Evergreen.

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If customers are mobile, retailers also need the ability to manage their stores on mobile. In the second of a two-parter, Jonathan Snook from Shopify talks about making the admin experience responsive.

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Customers use their phones to shop—but merchants are also mobile. Monika Piotrowicz from Shopify tells us the responsive redesign of their marketing website helps them reach retailers.

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A responsive redesign of MTV News resulted in a 570 percent increase in referrals from social, nearly tripling their traffic. Ryan Shafer tells us how it changed their process at MTV.com.

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Suzanne Connaughton and Frank Punzo from CHOP tell us that a responsive redesign and CMS replatforming helped make their team more collaborative.

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The A.V. Club, The Onion, and ClickHole are truly digital publishing brands. Kelly Pratt and Kristi-Lynn Jacovino explain how they made them responsive, running off a single codebase.

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Airbnb has robust native apps and a majority of web traffic from desktop—and they still went responsive. Dave Augustine tells us a front end framework made it easy for them.

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Sixty-five percent of Outside Online readers are, well, mobile. Todd Hodgson and TJ Pitre show how a responsive redesign can deliver improved performance on a tight budget.

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In part two of our conversation with Expedia, Travis Fleck and Tyler Fleck go into the details of what they learned rolling out and testing a responsive framework across the enterprise.

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Travel users are mobile, right? Expedia has experimented with native apps and separate mobile websites. Scott Kelton Jones and Jason Chandler explain why responsive design performs better.

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NPR famously publishes to many different platforms. Patrick Cooper and Scott Stroud explain why they went responsive: to get more value from their limited resources.

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Chris Balt and Trent Walton explain how the high-profile initiative to redesign the Microsoft.com homepage demonstrated the benefits of going responsive to a large organization.

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Bill Scott and Mausami Dave-Shah from PayPal implemented a lean development methodology, which treats responsive web design as the foundation for their products in 203 countries.

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The interwoven historical perspectives shown in Lapham’s Quarterly are perfect for the web. Michelle Legro and Rebecca Smith explain how a new CMS and editorial workflow support a responsive design.

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Sixty percent of traffic to AIDS.gov comes from mobile devices. Users need critical and intimate information—quickly. Miguel Gomez and Jeremy Vanderlan explain why responsive was the right solution.

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Some large companies go responsive at scale—what about sites built by one person? At the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, Josh Benton wears many hats: editor, writer, designer, developer, even QA.

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After some awkward finger-pointing over who forgot to book this week’s guest, we discuss what we learned this year, hosting corporate workshops and running this podcast on responsive web design.

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More than five million DJs discover new music using Beatport Pro. Robert Petro and Nikki Lee explain why a responsive solution that works across platforms was a no-brainer for their relaunch.

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How do you improve on a news site that’s already successful and already minimalist? Zach Seward and Daniel Lee explain that a mobile first mindset helped refine and enhance the redesign of qz.com—for both users and advertisers.

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Do people really look at their retirement plan website on their phone? Kevin Ackley and Brian Greene from Nationwide explain that responsive design provided support for the significant population of customers coming from mobile devices, improved collaboration between UX, IT, & business stakeholders, and led a major industry research group to give them top rankings.

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For some organizations, “mobile” means a website that works on tablets and smartphones. For Alex Breuer of The Guardian, mobile means challenging editorial conventions and rethinking the fundamental form of a 200-year-old publication.

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To reduce management costs and maintain a more consistent presence across platforms, Tina Alexander rolled out a responsive web redesign for Celebrity Cruises that works together with their app strategy to take advantage of a 3× increase in traffic from mobile devices.

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You’d learn a lot if your first responsive project was for SB Nation, one of the most popular sports sites on the web with more than 70 million unique users. For Trei Brundrett, Chief Product Officer for Vox Media, going responsive means iteratively improving an entire network of media brands.

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Starbucks considers mobile to be the first customer touchpoint. Lincoln Mongillo tells us why managing for “one web” forces them to focus on what’s important, and puts performance, accessibility, and security at the center of their design process.

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Sure, the page is dead, but now what? If you’re Code for America, you work with Clearleft to develop a pattern library and a component-based CMS built in Jekyll to deliver a new responsive website. Cyd Harrell and Jeremy Keith tell us about their fast-paced, iterative process.

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One of the questions we’re often asked is “Responsive is great for consumer sites, but is it really necessary for B2B brands?” Chris Collette explains that “lawyers are people too” when he talks about implementing a mobile first, responsive redesign for one of New York’s largest law firms.

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Publishers must take advantage of increased traffic on mobile. But how? Scher Foord of Condé Nast explains how rolling out responsive redesigns across all their magazine brands helps them adapt to changing consumer behavior and meet advertiser demand.

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When you step onto the grounds of Harvard University, you expect well-kept lawns and good signage. The same is true when you visit any of Harvard’s digital properties. Chief Digital Officer Perry Hewitt tells us how they focus on strategy and a collaborative process.

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From the LA Times, Megan Garvey and Emily Smith tell us their responsive redesign delivers an improved experience for users, offers advertisers a better environment for their campaigns, and gave their journalists a morale boost with a website they could be proud of.

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Virgin America recently launched an elegant, streamlined new website. Their CIO Dean Cookson and agency partner Joe Stewart from Work and Co. tell us that co-located teams with constant communication, a focus on prototyping, and obsession with user goals is what helped them pare down the experience.

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We’re back with Capital One for the second episode in a two-part series. Rob Huddleston and Brian Dillon dig into the implementation details, explaining how a component CMS and modular design system helped them deliver a complete responsive redesign.

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In a very special two-part episode, we talk to the team at Capital One that pulled off a complete responsive redesign in just two months. In this first part, Rob Huddleston and Scott Childs explain how their goal was to serve the 96 percent of users who abandoned their m-dot site.

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With 2.5 million daily users, Fidelity is one of the most heavily used financial services websites. Steve Turbek and Brian Hurley tell us how rolling out a responsive redesign in beta is helping them test multiple iterations and learn from user feedback.

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What if it wasn’t enough just to launch a responsive redesign? What if you wanted everyone on your digital team to learn and embrace a new iterative prototyping process? Livia Labate of Marriott did just that for a large, global website.

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As the first major site to go responsive, it’s only fitting that The Boston Globe is the first episode of our podcast. We talk with Miranda Mulligan about the politics between the newsroom and the design team, and how responsive design brought them together.

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