Brad Frost - Beyond Media Queries: An anatomy of an adaptive web experience @ Smashing Conf

Media queries may be responsive design’s secret sauce, but we know there’s a whole lot more that goes into crafting amazing adaptive experiences. By dissecting an example of a mobile-first responsive design, we’ll uncover the principles of adaptive design and highlight some considerations for creating contextually-aware Web experiences. We’ll go over emerging mobile Web best practices and responsive patterns that can assist in our journey toward a future-friendly Web.

Josh Brewer - Responsive Times Call For Responsive Measures @smashingconf

The talk is an attempt to deprogram our approach to Web design for the last 15 years by taking a look at the history of graphic design (type, grids, etc) and how it has shaped our thinking (positively & negatively). The presentation discusses new approaches to designing responsively and what we can learn from the past.

Stephen Ray - Style guides are the new Photoshop

Use of image editors for creating web design mockups has worked until now, but responsive design is forcing us to find alternatives, as we can’t simply create more mockups as we design for more screens. Have no fear, there is at least one method of replacing Photoshop for web design. Let’s take a look at one of the most important aspects of this method: the creation of clear, semi-automated, self-updating style guides.