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Practical Web Design
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Practical Web Design

by Philippe Hong
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
7h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adaptive design

While Responsive design works to create a universal look and feel with one design that varies from device to device, an Adaptive design has a different approach. Adaptive design is designed to detect the user device and to redirect the user to a website designed especially for this resolution.

First introduced by Aaron Gustafson in 2011 in his book Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experience with Progressive Enhancement, an Adaptive design has the main difference of having a totally different website on specific resolutions. Resizing the browser has no impact on the design.

The best example of Adaptive design is Amazon.com, which displays an entirely new layout of the website on tablet and mobile:

Amazon Website in desktop, ...
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