A good web design is about delivering the best user experience on any device. Agree that creating several design versions is often an irrational decision. So in order to reduce time to market and focus on important things while launching a project, developers practice responsive website design. It&rsquo;s a technology, which allows adjusting elements to various screen sizes and resolutions.&nbsp;
<h2 dir="ltr">What is Responsive Web Design?</h2>
In brief, responsive design is a special approach to the graphic user interface that is created to accommodate content smoothly to diverse gadgets. It significantly simplifies the work of designers because the creation of mobile and desktop design versions is not necessary.
The users&rsquo; requirements for web resources have enormously increased: without an attractive and user-friendly design, your project is going to die. Nowadays, mobile traffic exceeds desktop one more than twice. So, it&rsquo;s not enough to create a modern PC solution: designers and developers must provide the same experience for mobile users.
Within responsive website development, designers assign relative units (%) to the elements. As a result, the entire screen is filled with content. The solution responds to the user&rsquo;s actions and parameters of his device (the size of screen, platform, orientation, and the like).
<h2 dir="ltr">Why is Responsive Design so Important?</h2>
The 2010s were a turning point in the IT industry when numerous users acquired portable devices. And the number of gadgets is constantly growing from year to year. Designers and developers realized the irrationality of creating several design layouts for one project when it&rsquo;s possible to adapt an existing mockup to all screens and resolutions.
There are numerous reasons why you should implement a responsive design.
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Providing the same user experience (total design uniformity and seamlessness).
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Ability to use diverse CMSs and frameworks.
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Rapid implementation (no need to make up two versions of the site).
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SEO-friendly option (SEO specialists can avoid using redirects to speeds up the loading of the site).
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Of course, the solution also has certain cons, which we cannot help mentioning.
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Minimum control over screen sizes.
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Shifting elements on their own.
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Issues with adapting advertisement formats.
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Longer load speed (high dependence on the quality of the written code).
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Complicated front-end code. So, you should give a preference to a professional team to avoid failing your project.
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<h2 dir="ltr">Helpful Tips for Responsive Design</h2>
We have figured out that responsive web design is about unanimity for all devices. So, the rules of its creation may be unclear. Below, we have listed a rundown of some pieces of advice.
Given the predominance of mobile traffic, the main emphasis should be made on the mobile website version. Tips we would like to highlight concerning this thesis:
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Focus on the mobile version and then suit it to larger screens.
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Don&rsquo;t forget that mobile users require bigger buttons (more than 40 px).
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Mobile design must be twice as intuitive as desktop one because limited display space can be confusing.
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It is important to use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs), which don&rsquo;t blur after significant scaling. Otherwise, you&rsquo;ll see pixels that negatively influence the user experience.
The priority should be minimalism. Within the framework of the concept, it is necessary to prioritize content and hide unimportant pieces. The feature of progressive disclosure is going to be useful.
Make sure that fonts and other parts of responsive web design are selected correctly. A good solution is about using contrast and background effectively. Some fonts can look awesome on a mobile screen and be inappropriate on the large screen of a PC.
The main thing while implementing a responsive design is to rely on experts because it is a big challenge to move from pixels and inches towards grids, use a viewport, responsive typography, and so on. When flexible grids are created with the help of CSS, the columns automatically rearrange themselves to fit the screen size or a window of your browser. It doesn&rsquo;t matter how big the user&rsquo;s display is.
<h2 dir="ltr">Examples of Responsive Web Design</h2>
Answering the question &ldquo;What is responsive web design?&rdquo;, we can&rsquo;t fail to cite a few instances. Let&rsquo;s take a look at some web resources.
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The service has applied fluid grids and flexible visuals to provide the audience with a tailored user experience. The background, images, buttons, and other elements accommodate the new screen parameters in no time.
Some design elements (an example is an arrow, which allows scrolling down) are hidden in the mobile version because scrolling is performed by using the touchscreen.
<h3 dir="ltr">Slack</h3>
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The brand pursues the aim to be simple and human. So, their website completely fits the concept. The size and shape of your screen don&rsquo;t matter: you won&rsquo;t definitely suffer while consuming content.
<h3 dir="ltr">GitHub</h3>
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When shifting from a desktop to a mobile device, some elements disappear or change their arrangement. An instance is the signup form: in order to fill it out on your smartphone, you first should click on an appropriate button, which is absent on the PC. Concerning hiding elements on the responsive website: GitHub removed the search bar and menu on handheld gadgets.
<h3 dir="ltr">Dribbble</h3>
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Our favorite web resource, which we use to present design works. As GitHub, Dribble hid several items on mobile devices to prevent clutter. There are no shots attributed to their maker. In addition, you won&rsquo;t find the view, comment, and like counts beneath each post.
If you wish to get acquainted with our works on Dribbble, please open the following link: <a href="https://dribbble.com/agilie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://dribbble.com/agilie</a>
<h2 dir="ltr">Summary</h2>
Thus, implementing a responsive design is a preferable solution if you desire to launch a modern website, which would be relevant for decades to come. Previously, the vast majority of people visited sites using personal computers with similar screen parameters. Nowadays, there is a huge variety of different devices with displays ranging from a few inches all the way up to 27&Prime; or more. Despite that, users expect every website to be convenient and look the same.
Our team is ready not only to develop the conception of the future web resource but also to provide the full range of services for its implementation. We offer the Discovery stage, thought-out design, debugging, and so on. Just contact us in any convenient way. You can use the link to fill out a short form: <a href="https://agilie.com/en/contacts">agilie.com/en/contacts</a>
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<a href="https://agilie.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://agilie.com/">Agilie</a>&nbsp;is pleased to announce that our two design projects&nbsp;<a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/53023699/Cinema-App" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/53023699/Cinema-App">Cinema App</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/52067341/Player-App" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/52067341/Player-App">Music Player</a>&nbsp;are currently being featured in the UI/UX category on Behance.
The designer behind the projects Alex Volk has three biggest passions: design, movies, and music. It proves that when you are really engaged in something, great things can happen. In this case, Alex managed to design two cool projects that were appreciated by the design community.
At the moment of writing the Cinema App has 6813 views and Music Player has reached 6258 views. Both projects were designed in minimalistic and laconic style.
Music Player
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We all love music and listen to it everywhere. In the ocean of music players apps available on the App Store and Google Play, it&rsquo;s really hard to choose the one that is the most convenient in navigation, simple and at the same time beautiful in design. There are people who don&rsquo;t bother and choose the default players.
Alex wanted to create a design that won&rsquo;t distract a user from listening to music by giving a chance to fully immerse in the music atmosphere itself, style, and mood of the app. The main concept behind the music player app was to make the navigation predictable and intuitive for the user persona.
If the user swipes left, the menu with the following actions reveals:
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Beauty is in simplicity, right?
Cinema App
On March 2017 our design team went to the &ldquo;Logan&rdquo; premiere. We&rsquo;ve been waiting for this movie for a long time so decided to get prepared in advance by booking and buying tickets online.
At first, we noticed that apart from poor design many cinema apps are overloaded with unnecessary features, like galleries of large screenshots, long lines of comments, or sections with &ldquo;Coming Soon&rdquo;. That seemed strange because such kind of app should be simple in usage and serve as a quick method of buying tickets to the cinema. At a time when we are overwhelmed with information &mdash; simplicity and convenience are the keys to quickly grab user&rsquo;s attention.
Our design team thought why not creating a visually appealing cinema app concept where a user is able to quickly book tickets to the nearest cinema with easy navigation.
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Following the principle&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams">&ldquo;Do less, but better&rdquo;</a>, we started to design our own concept of cinema app. At Agilie we a have a big design department and we always cooperate with team members to achieve better results. We had several ideas on how it should look like and what colors would be the best fit. Alex Volk was inspired by the latest trends in mobile design, in particular, more calm and minimalistic color patterns. He wanted to create a design with a more clear and user-friendly interface that will make the booking process simpler and more attractive for a user&rsquo;s eye. Adhering to the rules of a good UX, we strove to design an efficient and intuitive concept with a consistent interface. We were focused on improving the interaction between the user and the app with the help of:
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<li id="73b4" style="text-align: justify;">Placing a bottom navigation</li>
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Cinema app consists of two screens: the one with a horizontal scroll of the current movies and another depicting the process of buying tickets. We didn&rsquo;t hide all control elements to the menu but set them to the bottom navigation in order to make easier to reach it with one finger.
By the way, the originality of city icons is due to Alex architecture background:)
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We used Sketch to work through the both concepts, which made the design work smoother, quicker, and easier than using other programs. It took 10 days to design the Cinema App and 12 days to create the Music Player concept.
We would like to thank the Behance community for featuring Agilie projects in the UI/UX category. We will continue working on new designs and creating new and awesome projects.
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Our two design projects&nbsp;<a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/53023699/Cinema-App" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/53023699/Cinema-App">Cinema App</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/52067341/Player-App" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/52067341/Player-App">Music Player</a>&nbsp;are currently being featured in the UI/UX category on Behance.

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One often has to design image galleries when creating sites. Therefore, we believe our template called Bouncing carousel will be useful in your web development practice.
We're happy to share with you this template designed for websites and aimed to help you create spectacular image galleries.
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<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">What is Bouncing carousel?</h2>
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<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">How to use?</h2>
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<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">Details</h2>
The&nbsp;Bouncing carousel is an experiment with SVG animations technology inspired by <a href="https://dribbble.com/shots/2637299-Carousel">Carousel</a>.
The animation used in this carousel is based on <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animation_with_SMIL">Animation SMIL</a> specification. All the SVG elements can be stylized using CSS, you can also create animations through CSS, but some of the properties in SVG greatly enhance its capabilities. For example, the "path" attribute has a data set that defines the object's path, and this data can not be changed through CSS.
In the bouncing carousel, we use the &lt;animate&gt; tag which allows animating SVG without using a cumbersome JS-code, but only by :hover pseudoclass on the carousel element.
<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">Image Format</h2>
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