Results for Tag ‘Responsive Images’

Thrillophilia is India’s largest online tours and activities platform. Through its website and app, the company offers a one-stop solution for travelers looking for tours, activities and things to do. Users can choose from more than 10,000 activities in 200+ cities in India and 15 countries in Asia. Headquartered…

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed (rather abstractly) what it means for an image to be “responsive.” In short, a responsive image is a variable image that adapts to fit variable contexts, in order to provide a great experience to users no matter what their screen,…

“Responsive.” Where did that term come from, anyways? In his sea-changing essay, Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte explained: Recently, an emergent discipline called “responsive architecture” has begun asking how physical spaces can respond to the presence of people passing through them. Through a combination of embedded robotics and…

Note: this article was originally published in Smashing Magazine. Four years ago, Jason Grigsby asked a surprisingly difficult question: How do you pick responsive images breakpoints? A year later, he had an answer: ideally, we’d set responsive image performance budgets to achieve “sensible…

In the conclusion of this three-part interview the Jason Grigsby, we examine what the future may hold for images on the web. Previously: Part 1, Part 2. EP: I want to go back to the idea that we started with, that images are fundamentally…

This article originally appeared on Inc. Magazine and is reprinted with permission. Back in the day, responsive website design wasn’t the business imperative that it is now. In fact, just having a functioning website was all…

In part 1 of this interview, Jason Grigsby and I discussed how the industry came to understand the responsive image problem. Here, in part 2, we discuss today’s solutions — taking a particularly deep dive into the puzzle of “responsive image breakpoints.” EP: So, where are we, today,…

  Portland-based web developer Jason Grigsby co-founded Cloud Four. He’s a prolific writer and speaks about front-end development as thoughtfully as anyone in the business. He’s been writing about responsive images since there were responsive images to write about, and recently, he and I had a chance to sit…

Websites have evolved greatly over the past few years. Once text-heavy websites have become more eye-catching with prominent images and video. But the addition of richer media isn’t the only change impacting websites. Consumer behavior also factors into this evolution, as web access has moved from the desktop realm to…