The Future Friendly Web, Brad Frost - a post by Manik Rathee

Notes from Brad Frost's Talk at Web Visions 2012

"We want to make things that are future friendly. By anticipating what's next, we can react to today's concerns but also build long-term value for people and businesses. The following ideas have been on our minds recently. Help us explore them further or suggest new ones. FutureFriend.ly"

Notes:

Create relevant, purposeful content.
Content like water - We need content to have the ability to move and conform to different containers. It should be entirely device agnostic.
The most valued products will be designed to live beyond the device and platforms they were intended to be for.
"We need to make smarter content, not smarter containers." - Stephanie Rieger
Create API's, Not War
NPR created COPE - Create once, publish everywhere.
With responsive design on the web, we can fundamentally change what it can, do who it can reach, and where it can go. It should be more than just a stylesheet for mobile.
Principles of Adaptive Design:
- Ubiquity
- Flexibility
- Performance
- Enhancement
- Future Friendly
"Diversity is not a bug, its an opportunity" - Stephanie Rieger
This Is Responsive - Patterns for responsive layouts, navigations and carousels. Go there. Seriously. Go.
R/GA's responsive blog, which is cuated by Brad Frost and Pon Kattera
Embrace the Squishiness™
The Growing Epidemic of Page Bloat on GigaOm
Mobile Testing from Akamai, along with their blog post describing it.
Performance as is Design
Responsive Design != One Size Fits All
Acknowledge and embrace unpredictability
Users don't give a shit if your site is responsive. They do give a shit when they can't do what they need to on your site.
WTF Mobile Web - Real world examples of mobile web done wrong
Mobile Web Best Practices helps people learn about and get things done with the mobile web
"When you're finished changing, you're finished" - Ben Franklin