Responsive web design: a quick tools

Responsive web design is no secret nowadays — it’s all about designing websites that flawlessly fit different screen sizes and are compatible with all internet-browsers. It’s a web designers job to insure a site’s content and graphics size well from large to smaller screen sizes. Today, a big population is using smart phones and tablets to browse the internet daily. So it’s imperative that designers prioritize the responsive factors while designing attractive interfaces.
Here are a few quick tips that will help designers create effective responsive sites easily.

1)BrowserStack

It’s increasingly challenging and expensive to test in a representative stack of devices, environments and browsers. While there’s no substitute for testing on real devices (so please keep testing on real devices!), BrowserStack provides remote access to a whole host of devices and environments allowing you to do some serious QA. It’s even touted by Microsoft as being an effective tool for testing those pesky old versions of Internet Explorer, too.

2) Google Drive’s drawing app

Developing for the Drive Realtime API is almost as simple as working with local objects. The API provides collaborative versions of familiar data objects such as maps, lists, strings, and JSON values and automatically synchronizes and stores modifications to these objects. Your application reads from and writes to these objects like any other local object. Change event handlers can be added to collaborative objects so that your app can react to changes from other collaborators.

3) Style Prototypes

Mood boards can be too vague, whereas static mockups are too precise in this responsive age. That’s why designer Samantha Warren created Style Tiles to provide clients with a gist of colours, typography and atmosphere without getting too literal.
The responsively-minded folks at Sparkbox developed took Warren’s idea a step further with the Style Prototype.
The Style Prototype is Style Tiles in the browser, which allows you to show true colours, typography, animations and more in a website’s final environment.

4) Responsinator

With Responsivator you will enter a URL for testing and it will preview the site/page at 7 different widths from a smartphone all the way up to a desktop. You can also enter your own custom screen dimensions for testing, and Responsivator even provides you with a custom URL that you can share with others so they can preview the results.

5) Adobe Edge Inspect

Testing on real devices is essential. Until recently, the process has been manual and quite painful for all involved. Adobe created a tool called Adobe Edge Inspect that allows you to auto-refresh all connected devices. It also makes it super easy to get under the hood and remotely inspect code on a remote device.