It seems I haven’t posted in quite a while — I can barely believe it’s been a whole year since my book, Learning Responsive Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide, was released.

My first visit to Las Vegas

And it’s been a busy year. In the past 12 months I’ve given talks at conferences or meetups in: Ottawa, ON; Zurich, Switzerland; Washington, DC (3 events); Charlotte, NC; Chevy Chase, MD; Brussels, Belgium; Chicago (3 separate visits!); Montreal (3 events); Toronto; Albany, NY; New York City; Las Vegas; and Amsterdam.

Writing a book certainly opens the door to a lot of adventures.

But a new adventure is quickly approaching. My husband A.J. Kandy and I are moving from Montreal to Calgary next month. A.J. recently started a new job at SMART Technologies, which is based there.

So that means I’m looking for a new job in Calgary, or possibly remote. We don’t know very many people there yet, so if you happen to know any people who work at awesome companies in Calgary that might be hiring, please send them my way. Read more ›

Book release day is finally here! My book, Learning Responsive Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide, is now available in both print and digital.

Deliver an optimal user experience to all devices — including tablets, smartphones, feature phones, laptops, and large screens — by learning the basics of responsive web design. In this hands-on guide, UX designer Clarissa Peterson explains how responsive web design works, and takes you through a responsive workflow from project kickoff to site launch.

Visit the book’s website to learn more and view the table of contents, or visit the O’Reilly book page to download a “Free Sampler” of the first chapter.

You can purchase Learning Responsive Web Design from these and other fine retailers.

• O’Reilly
• Amazon
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon UK
• Barnes & Noble

And if you want to learn even more about responsive design, check out one of these conferences I’m speaking at in the next few months. I’ll be in Chicago (3 times); Washington, DC; Charlotte, NC; and Brussels, Belgium (first time speaking in Europe!).

When I wrote my proposal for the 2013 CSS Dev Conference way back in April, I had trouble thinking of a good topic. During the past year, I’ve done talks on several different topics related to responsive design, but they were all fairly general, and I wanted to find something to talk about that the conference attendees wouldn’t have heard already.

In April, I had just finished writing a chapter on typography for the book I’ve been writing on responsive design. And a few weeks earlier, I had been at Richard Rutter’s talk, Web Typography You Should Do Now, at SXSW. So typography was on my mind, and a web search told me that there weren’t already a ton of responsive typography slide decks floating around.

So I had a topic for my proposal, and I was very excited that that my talk on Responsive Typography was accepted for CSS Dev Conference. It turned out to be a topic that a lot of people are interested in: it was voted one of the six “Best of CSS Dev Conference” sessions by attendees! Read more ›

I’m speaking this afternoon at the Snow*Mobile conference in Madison, Wisconsin, on Responsive Design in the Real World.

In conjunction with the conference, I was asked to write an article on responsive design for Technori:

Responsive Web Design: How to Make Websites That Look Great on Any Screen

As mobile devices, tablets, and monitors become available in more and more sizes, and as the use of mobile devices becomes even more prevalent, we need to make sure that websites are designed to display properly on all screen sizes.

Responsive design will allow you to make sure that everyone is able to access your website, no matter what type and size of device they are using.