What Is Responsive Web Design and Why Should You Care?, Graphic Artists Guild, Feb. 27

What Is Responsive Web Design and Why Should You Care?, Graphic Artists Guild

When: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12:00 PM

Where: EAFA Gallery at the Seattle Design Center Suite 292, 5701 Sixth Avenue South, Seattle

What: In case you haven’t been paying attention lately, more and more people are accessing the internet from their smart phones and tablets. New gadgets of different sizes seem to enter the market every week and web browsing from portable devices is expected to outpace desktop use by 2015. Responsive Web Design means creating web sites which easily adapt their content to any size screen. While much of this is done by web developers in HTML and CSS, it’s increasingly important that designers are fluent in this new workflow.

This workshop will discuss:

• Why you should “design for mobile first”
• How to “future-proof” your site against costly redesigns
• How to explain Responsive Web Design to your clients
• Best practices for converting layouts to small screens
• Why you should stop creating fixed width layouts in Photoshop

Who: Erik Fadiman is an interactive designer/developer and an instructor at Seattle Central Creative Academy. He only builds responsive sites these days and likes to say, “If it isn’t responsive, then it isn’t web design.”

How Much:

• Guild Member-$10
• Student-$10
• AIGA Member-$15
• General-$20

How: Register online.