FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Boston, November 29, 2016 – Aquent Gymnasium is pleased to present The State of Responsive Web Design, a live, online conversation with Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane, on Thursday, December 8, at 2 pm. Our guests will share their retrospective view of the responsive approach along with their vision for the future of the web. This event is free to the public with limited registration. We encourage those interested to register early.

‘Responsive web design’ was a theoretical concept coupled with a bit of practical code in 2010 when Ethan Marcotte first coined the term in his article for A List Apart. In five years, the responsive design approach has grown into a universally-accepted standard for designing interactive experiences on the web. The process, tools, and technology integral to successful web design have continuously evolved, forcing design teams to adapt rapidly.

When Karen and Ethan joined forces in 2010, they began educating web designers worldwide with an email newsletter, in-house workshops and a podcast documenting interviews with over 100 organizations large and small.

About Ethan Marcotte

Ethan, perhaps best known for coining the term “responsive web design”, is an author, speaker, and web designer who is passionate about beautiful design, elegant code, and the intersection of the two. Over the years, his clientele have included People Magazine, New York Magazine, the Sundance Film Festival, and The Boston Globe. Ethan’s acclaimed books, Responsive Web Design and Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles, show how designers and organizations can leverage the web’s flexibility to design across mobile, tablet, and desktop—and whatever might come next.

About Karen McGrane

If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For the past 20 years Karen has helped businesses create better digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. She is Managing Partner at Bond Art + Science, a UX consultancy she founded in 2006, and formerly VP and National Lead for User Experience at Razorfish. Karen teaches Design Management in the MFA in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. She co-hosts A Responsive Web Design Podcast with Ethan Marcotte, and is the author of Going Responsive, published in 2015 by A Book Apart. Her first book, Content Strategy for Mobile, was published in 2012.

About Jeremy Osborn, Event Host

Jeremy is Academic Director of Aquent Gymnasium. Jeremy is the author of several well-reviewed and popular books on web technology and design software. He was recently featured on Jeffrey Zeldman’s podcast, The Big Web Show.

About Gymnasium

Aquent Gymnasium offers free, online courses for digital, creative and communications professionals to equip them with in demand skills and advance their careers.

Digital designers, front-end developers, and marketers all benefit from courses that consider diverse learning approaches and real-world problem solving from instructors who are at the top of their field.

We use job placement analytics as well as feedback from our clients to create courses that bridge the skills gap for companies who seek to take advantage of emerging technologies and remain competitive.

Why free? Lifelong learning is central to Aquent’s cultural values and finds its way into almost all of our business strategies. Because we’ve always known that there is a clear connection between learning and career advancement, Gymnasium was created to serve both talent and client in meeting the demand for skilled professionals. To date, hundreds of newly-certified professionals have been placed in roles with our clients.

Browse our course catalog and find out more at thegymnasium.com

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