10 Infographics for Learning About Responsive Web Design

10 Infographics for Learning About Responsive Web Design

Responsive web design, a technique that allows web designers to create flexible web page layouts that change depending on the screen size of the site visitor, allows us to optimize user experiences for the increasingly variable ways people are accessing the Web. If you’d like to learn a bit about this new web design technique, or if you need some basic educational resources to present to your clients, check out these responsive web design infographics.

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1. Responsive Web Design Infographic

This simple illustrated responsive web design guide includes a section that displays how a single layout can flexibly change when viewed in different devices.

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2. Responsive Website Design – What Is It? (Infographic)

This quick primer on responsive web design has a quick bullet-point-style list of reasons why responsive web design is beneficial to website owners.

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3. 10 Basic Tips About Responsive Web Design (Infographic)

This very long infographic about responsive web design outlines a few things you should keep in mind when developing responsive designs.

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4. Responsive Web Design Interactive Infographic

This interactive infographic presents useful resources, links, a definition of popular terms related to responsive web design, and more.

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5. Responsive Web Design: What Is It? (And Why You Need It)

This is a basic primer on what responsive web design is and some relevant statistics related to mobile browsing.

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6. Do You Really Need Responsive Web Design? [Infographic]

There are alternatives for optimizing the experience of mobile users on your site. This infographic is a comparison of server-side solutions versus responsive web designs.

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7. Responsive Web Design [Infographic]

This succinct infographic presents a few reasons why you need a responsive web design.

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8. 2013: The Year of Responsive Web Design [Infographic]

90% of online consumers use multiple devices to access the Web, and thus it’s important to have a website that accommodates them, according to this infographic.

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9. Responsive Design for a Better Mobile Experience

25% of mobile device users don’t use a laptop or desktop to access the Web — a very compelling argument this infographic makes about the importance of responsive design.

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10. Responsive Design Process

This graphic is for designers and agencies that are only now getting into responsive web design. It’s a flowchart of a responsive design workflow of an actual design agency.

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Author: Jacob Gube

Jacob Gube is the Co-Founder and Technical Editor of Design Instruct. He also runs the site called Six Revisions, another one of the team's websites. He's a web developer, designer, and author of books on web design and development. If you'd like to connect with him, check him out on Twitter: @sixrevisions or shoot him an email.