5 Best Practices for Responsive UI design

5 Best Practices for Responsive UI design

Creating responsive wen designs is a routine for professional web developers, therefore, mastering the skill is very important.

today I will give you tips that will get your frontend skills to another level.

1. Relative Units

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using relative units is a very useful and efficient way to simplify your responsive web dev workload. as it permits you to define property values once for different screen sizes.

2. Breakpoints

Essentially, breakpoints are pixel values that a developer/designer can define in CSS.

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When a website reaches those pixel values, a transformation occurs so that the website offers an optimal user experience.

Knowing the standard breakpoints for every screen size is essential in responsive web design.

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3. Nested HTML Objects

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Using nested HTML elements allow you to easily position the as one body other than individually as can be seen on the card in the image above.

4. Bitmap vs Vector graphic images

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Bitmaps are made of pixels, while vector images are software-created and based on mathematical calculations which allows them to grow or shrink to any size without a loss in the definition of the image.

5. Mobile or desktop first design approach

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Mobile-first design is a design philosophy that aims to create better experiences for users by starting the design process from the smallest of screens while the desktop first design approach which is mostly used means designing for the highest specifications — the best achievable by design- and then going down to smaller resolutions.

Which one you use is up to you but mastering both will definitely come in handy.