The document discusses responsive design for a SharePoint 2013 intranet for MacDonald Miller, an HVAC contractor. It provides an overview of responsive design and why it is important given increasing mobile usage. It then discusses two approaches to responsive design - graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. It highlights lessons learned, including understanding user needs, testing across devices and browsers, optimizing for touch, leveraging SharePoint functionality, and ensuring good content. Resources for responsive design are also provided.

1. RESPONSIVE DESIGN IN SHAREPOINT
2013
A Case Study of an Intranet

2. A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Microsoft Certified Professional in SharePoint
Business Technology Director forBuildingi (and SharePoint addict)
Costa Rican transplanted to WA a year ago
Coding for more than 10 years in a bit of everything
Enthusiastic but bad golfer
Roberto Yglesias
@robertoy
roberto.yglesias@buildingi.com
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3. BUILDING SNAPSHOT
Technical services consulting firm, serving clients since 1994
Deep expertise in SharePoint/Office365 and IWMS/CAFM
Over 65 employees
Buildingi Bellevue
Buildingi DC
Buildingi Costa Rica
Buildingi
Atlanta
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4. SERVICES
Business Technology Expertise
• SharePoint Design, Implementation & Services
• Enterprise Content Management
• eDiscovery
• Information Governance
• Records Management
• Shared Drive Optimization
• Data Migration
• Complex System Integrations
Workplace Technology Expertise
• Corporate Real Estate Portfolio Technologies
• Space Utilization Management
• CAD / CAFM / IWMS Solutions
• Vendor Collaboration & Oversight Communities
• Business Intelligence Reporting
• Database Management & Analytics
• Enterprise Data Systems Integration
• Change Management / Rollout Success
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5. TODAY
Responsive design & SharePoint
Case study and live demo
Best practices and resources
Questions
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6. SO, WHAT IS RESPONSIVE DESIGN?
Design once, view everywhere - same site, code and content for every device
1. A flexible, grid-based layout
2. Flexible images and media
3. Media Queries
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7. WHY RESPONSIVE DESIGN?
• 91% of US citizens have a mobile device within reach 24/7 and check phones an
average of 150x a day
• 90% of people use multiple screens to access the web
• 90% of smartphone searches result in a purchase or a visit to a business
• 61% of visitors will return to Google to find a site that IS easily readable
Sources:
Global Mobile Statistics 2012 Home: http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats
Forrester Research “Understanding Responsive Design”: http://www.forrester.com/Understanding+Responsive+Design/fulltext/-/E-RES74481
Forrester Research US Telecommuting Forecast 2009-2016: http://www.forrester.com/US+Telecommuting+Forecast+2009+To+2016/fulltext/-/E-RES46635
Web Performance Today “Mobile vs. Desktop”: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2011/04/20/desktop-vs-mobile-web-page-load-speed/
SEO MOZ “The SEO of Responsive Web Design”: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-of-responsive
43% of the US workforce will work from home by 2016
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8. SHAREPOINT CAN BE RESPONSIVE!
• Is SP 2013 better than SP 2010? Absolutely!
• Device Channels are awesome, right? Yes and No
• Is Mobile View the solution? Not really…
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9. CLIENT: MACDONALD MILLER
Summary: MacDonald Miller, an HVAC Systems
Contractor and Service Center, asked Buildingi to
help enhance their overall collaboration, including
building a new intranet on SharePoint.
Services provided:
• SharePoint 2013 Installation & Architecture
• Social media integration (Yammer)
• Mobile and tablet optimization
• Brand look and feel
• Workflow automation
• Data integration
• User experience
• Information architecture
• Custom app development
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10. THE TWO APPROACHES
Graceful Degradation
Progressive Enhancement
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11. DEMO TIME!
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12. LESSONS LEARNED: IT’S ALL ABOUT YOUR USERS
• Start by understanding your users and how they interact with the site
• Scenario-based: What are your users going to do from each device?
• Design for the real world. No one writes a 60 page document on a phone!
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13. LESSONS LEARNED: FOCUS ON ROI
Responsively designed SP intranets can be expensive in the short run, but a great
savings in the long run
• Increased productivity and collaboration
• Information exchange via enterprise social networking and collaboration sites
• Access to critical information when you need it
A 2% increase in productivity can equate to a
100% ROI when comparing staff returns to system costs
Source: Lee-Sia, ElcomCMS, Tips for planning an Intranet Project, March 13, 2013
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14. LESSONS LEARNED: IDENTIFY DEVICES & BROWSERS
Check http://caniuse.com/
Do feature detection
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15. LESSONS LEARNED: TEST, TEST, TEST
TEST
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16. LESSONS LEARNED: THINK ABOUT TOUCH
•Don’t create hover-over experiences
•Use large enough click points
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17. LESSONS LEARNED: SP FUNCTIONALITY
• There’s a reason over 70% of enterprise intranets run on SharePoint
• Core features like libraries and lists support collaboration and knowledge sharing
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18. REMEMBER…CONTENT IS KING
• A site is only as good as its content!
• Don’t overrun full screen experience with unnecessary information, images, video, etc.
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19. WHAT COMES AFTER LAUNCH?
• Check your web analytics
• Stay up on device channels
• Leverage mobile platforms more (APIs, etc.)
ALWAYS BE OPTIMIZING !
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20. RESOURCES
•Can I Use
•Twitter Bootstrap
•jQuery
•Normalize.css
•Respond.js
•Other Responsive Frameworks
•Html5shim
•HTML5 Boilerplate
•Foundation (Zurb)
•Skeleton
•Modernizr
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21. Roberto Yglesias
@robertoy
roberto.yglesias@buildingi.com
www.buildingi.com
Q&A
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