Website design and development today means considering the impact of choices on your mobile users as much (or even perhaps more!) as you do your desktop users. In this discussion, Phil talks to Rachel Appel about techniques for changing your website design and development mindset to be mobile-first to ensure a superior experience for your mobile users. Rachel offers suggestions for design techniques to respond to different display form-factors, variable network bandwidth availability, and even considerations for touch-based vs. mouse-centric interaction with your site.
If you’re not thinking about the different ways your website serves content to the ever-growing variety of devices, form-factors, and platforms on which your site will be consumed, this episode will get you started in the right direction!
Rachel is a 20+ year software engineer, author, mentor, and international speaker. During her career, she has worked on projects of all sizes from the smallest of apps, to the largest enterprise systems at some of the world’s leading companies. Rachel currently works as an independent consultant following a tenure at Microsoft; however she still works closely with Microsoft as an ASPInsider and IE userAgent.
You can read Rachel’s monthly “Modern Apps” column for MSDN Magazine, or her blog about software development at http://rachelappel.com. Catch her speaking at top conferences such as VSLive, DevConnections, MIX, and Netconf UY. Her expertise is in web development on the Microsoft stack, including ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, SignalR, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Rachel also deals with data as a DBA and data scientist, and is an all-around language nerd (both computer and human).
Conferences where Rachel is speaking: http://rachelappel.com/speaking
Rachel’s Modern Apps column: http://bit.ly/Rachel-MSDN