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UX Power Tools – Medium | Christian Beck
Designers are continuing to break out of the grid. It’s been a great evolution from the early days of responsive web design. 5 years ago, responsive simply meant that your content block would resize infinitely. But it was always within the confines of a rigid grid. In fact, responsive web design had a negative effect on how designers used grids because it was so difficult to figure out how content should react.
Not any more.
Today, improvements in media queries and technological advancements like flexbox have given designers more grid capabilities. The way designers do this takes on a few different forms in web design, with different qualities for different situations:
Let’s take a look at some examples:
A little site called Squarespace
Design by Giga Tamarashvili
Paper Tiger
https://flayks.com/
https://flayks.com/
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