Acknowledgements

I don’t have the words—or the space—to properly thank the people that have influenced my work, let alone this little book. Still, I have to try.

First and foremost, I’m impossibly grateful to A Book Apart for being interested in responsive design, and for offering me the chance to write my first solo book. Jason Santa Maria’s attention to detail and quality is unparalleled. Mandy Brown is an impossibly incisive editor, and I feel so lucky to have had her help and patience in shaping this book. And of course, my heartfelt thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman: for his impassioned writing and tireless work, and for the opportunities they’ve afforded me over the years.

If I can form a decent sentence from time to time, it’s because of Garret Keizer.

Peter-Paul Koch, Bryan and Stephanie Rieger, Jason Grigsby, and Stephen Hay have taught me much of what I know about designing for mobile, and improved my thinking about responsive design in countless subtle, significant ways. And for any design project, responsive or otherwise, Luke Wroblewski’s work on “mobile first” is invaluable.

Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton have taught our community—and me—much about the history behind our craft. What’s more, a fluid grid would never have proven feasible without Richard Rutter’s early research.

If I hadn’t read John Allsopp’s magnificent “A Dao Of Web Design” over a decade ago, my understanding of the web would be drastically different, and this book would have never happened.

David Sleight, the team at Filament Group—Patty Toland, Todd Parker, Maggie Costello, and Scott Jehl—and Mat Marquis provided indispensable feedback on an early draft of the book. Furthermore, Filament offered me the chance to work on a large-scale responsive redesign as I began writing this book, which has been a fantastically educational experience from which both I and the book have benefitted.

Dan Cederholm’s technical edit was thoughtful, thorough, and hilarious. Just like him.

I can’t quite articulate how honored I am that Jeremy Keith agreed to write the foreword. Hell, “honored” doesn’t even adequately cover it.

My family—my parents, my brothers, my sisters, and my grandmother—were there for me throughout the writing process. I love you guys.

And finally, to my wife Elizabeth. This book, and everything else, is for her.