What’s the difference between responsive and adaptive? While responsive design embraces an ethos of “One Web,” adaptive solutions aim to serve different information based on what we know about the person or the device. When people say they want to go “beyond responsive,” they often mean they want to implement adaptive solutions. In this talk Karen unpacks what people really mean when they talk about adaptive designs or adaptive content. She outlines scenarios in which it makes sense to target information to the device or context—and when it doesn’t.
2. —W3C
One Web means making, as far as is
reasonable, the same information and
services available to users irrespective of
the device they are using.
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#OneWeb
4. —Everyone at Marriott
I need more than a responsive site,
I need it to be adaptive.
https://medium.com/@livlab/responsive-versus-adaptive-is-not-a-thing-b712eefaf313
20. “
Responsive design is client-side, meaning
the whole page is delivered to the device
browser (the client) and the browser then
changes how the page appears in relation
to the dimensions of the browser window.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/garrett-goodman/adaptive-design_b_2344569.html
21. “
Adaptive design is server-side, meaning
before the page is even delivered, the
server detects the attributes of the
device, and loads a version of the page
that is optimized for its dimensions and
native features.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/garrett-goodman/adaptive-design_b_2344569.html
40. “
We had a phone website, and a tablet
website, and a desktop website, and we
really only maintained the desktop
website because we didn’t have enough
resources to cover all those fronts. It just
wasn’t a tenable situation.
—Patrick Cooper, NPR
http://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/npr.html
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TO DETECT INPUT
reliable way
http://www.stucox.com/blog/you-cant-detect-a-touchscreen/
52. You can’t use device
type to predict what
users will want
53. “
Our data shows us quite plainly and
clearly that the behavior of people on
mobile devices is really not all that
different than the behavior of people on
the desktop. The things they are seeking
to do and the tasks they are seeking
to accomplish are really quite the same.
—Chris Balt, Microsoft
http://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/microsoft.html
62. You want to get to know your customers and
determine whether they’re pre-, in-, or post-store.
You’ll need to create a different experience depending
on where the customer is in the path to purchase.
Adaptive design enables the customer to have a
customized experience based on the device he or she
is using. Optimize the customer experience by
tailoring the design and information to the device.
74. “
What we’ve discovered as we do our
ethnography research, our lab studies, as
we watch the mechanics of our sites from
an analytics perspective: People make the
same decisions regardless of the context.
—Scott Kelton Jones, VP Global UX, Expedia
http://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/expedia.html
75. Most of the time, you’re better off
serving the same information to all.
76. “
Thinking of responsive was just table
stakes. It’s just a default thing that should
always happen. You may later decide to
create a custom experience. But you don’t
have to go there first. You can start with
responsive.
—Bill Scott, VP of Next Gen Commerce, PayPal
http://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/paypal.html
78. “
If our customers are expecting a coherent
experience across touchpoints, why are
we siloing efforts by a narrow device
category definition? Practically, One Web
reinforces the needs for unified systems,
processes, and teams that drive real-
world cost savings and digital business
efficiencies.
Forrester Research, Analyzing The Value Of Responsive Web Design Can Be Messy
80. “
It’s important to acknowledge that most
activities are universal, even if there may
also be device-specific needs. By having
the web experience unified through a
responsive approach, we cover the base
scenarios across the board, and can later
do a better job at handling device
specifics.
—Livia Labate
http://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/marriott.html
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karen@bondartscience.com
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen McGrane has helped businesses create better digital
products through the power of user experience design and
content strategy for the past twenty years. She is Managing
Partner at Bond Art + Science, a UX consultancy she founded
in 2006 and formerly VP and National Lead for User Experience
at Razorfish. Karen teaches Design Management in the MFA
in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts in
Manhattan. She co-hosts A Responsive Web Design Podcast
with Ethan Marcotte, and her first book, Content Strategy for
Mobile, was published in 2012 by A Book Apart.
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