Responsive Design Workflow

Forewordby Ethan Marcotte

I have to be blunt: this is a wonderful book you’re about to read.

There’s a quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein that I’ve always loved: “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Something’s always seemed magical about that image: the broader your vocabulary, the broader your horizons.

I think of it often, especially as I remember my first studio job. Because looking back, I realize my introduction to web design was, well, pretty narrow, framed as it was by four little words: discover, design, develop, and deploy. Those were, I was taught, the discrete, task-based phases into which each design project was segmented. Research preceded design, and then coding followed, leading to site launch. Simple. Straightforward. ...