Designing Across Devices with Progressive Enhancement

These days, it’s easy for designers to feel overwhelmed. There is a sea of design considerations such as accessibility, device compatibility, choosing responsive or adaptive design, etc. Not only that, there are waves of new devices, techniques, and technologies hitting us all the time.

Fortunately, Aaron Gustafson knows how to calm the sea using progressive enhancement. With his practical approach, he designs for humans on any spectrum—with and without javascript enabled. If you’re trying to create a better web and are open to rethinking how you approach interface design, then you need to watch this seminar.

Create experiences without technological constraints

• Integrate progressive enhancement into your process
• Use content as your foundation and build the experience from there

Stop assuming users are just like you

• See how you may be unintentionally skewing your analytics
• Prevent the typical myopic view of web and mobile experiences

Make a content­-first approach work

• Fuse responsive web design and mobile­-first with progressive enhancement
• Focus content, core tasks, and visual designs on a continuum

Establish a solid strategy for planning

• Sketch different experiences using basic UI elements and flow charts
• Plan decision points and outcomes from simple through complex interactions

Watch this seminar if you:

• Need a manageable design process that works for your whole team
• Feel your sanity slipping away as more devices launch every single day
• Want to plan, design, and test all potential experiences across platforms