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    Ethan Marcotte

    en-usOctober 24, 2017
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    About this Episode

    In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation with Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte. It was recorded at the Hang Time Boston after-party at Coppersmith. You may hear a bit of bar noise, but you’ll also hear some great insights on responsive web design, GIFs, and more.

    Ethan shares the story of how responsive web design came to be, the complexity of the design process, the best way to get started with responsive web design, advice for teams building pattern libraries and style guides, why he started a GIF repository, and more.

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