# Create a new layout

> Learn how to create and manage layouts in PandaSuite for adaptive design, ensuring optimal display across different devices. This guide covers creating new layouts, opening existing ones, and managing settings.

https://docs.pandasuite.com/essentials/layout/create-a-new-layout/

By default, your project is created with a single layout. If you activate the [responsive](https://docs.pandasuite.com/essentials/layout/responsive-design/), it will adapt automatically to every screen but you won't be able to change content or orientation between devices.

If you want to adapt to the constraints of another type of device (for example, orientation), you need a new layout. For example, if your application was created for tablets (landscape mode) and you want to offer a portrait version for smartphones.

The management of layouts is also called an adaptive design.

[Image: “Adaptive” diagram: a separate template for computer, tablet and smartphone, each with its own block layout]

Source: Jellyfish

Here is an example of an application made with PandaSuite that is built using two layouts. [Louvrissime](https://pandasuite.com/showcase/louvrissime-museum-app/) was first created for tablets before being adapted for smartphones.

[Image: Museum app on a landscape tablet and a portrait smartphone, with the artworks laid out differently for each screen]

The Louvrissime application is available on the App Store and Google Play.

> **Info**
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> It's magic: when broadcasting, the project automatically displays the right
> layout according to the type of screen on which it is displayed!

## Create new layout

You create new layouts from your dashboard.

Go to your [dashboard](https://pandasuite.com/dashboard/create), hover over your project, click **···**, then **Settings…**, and open the **Layouts** tab.

Next to the device you want (**Mobile**, **Tablet** or **Desktop**), click **Create layout**.

[Image: Layouts tab of the project settings: Mobile, Tablet and Desktop, with the Create layout button of Mobile framed]

In the window that opens, choose **Use an existing layout as a starting point** or **Start with an empty layout**. Set the **Reference size** and the **Orientation**, then click **Add Layout**.

[Image: Add Layout: Mobile window: the two layout types are framed, above the reference size and the orientation]

When you start from an existing layout, you just have to put the objects in the right place. You can also [copy and paste](https://docs.pandasuite.com/essentials/project-management/copy-paste-between-projects/) your objects from an existing project.

## Open a layout

When a project has multiple layouts, you choose which one to open from your dashboard: hover over your project, click **···**, point to **Open in Studio**, then choose the layout.

[Image: Dashboard projects: the ··· menu of a project with Open in Studio pointed, and its Mobile and Tablet submenu framed]

You can also change the layout when your project is open in the Studio. Click the menu icon at the top left, next to the project name, then choose the layout. A check mark shows the one that is open, and its name also appears under the project name.

[Image: PandaSuite Studio: the menu next to the project name lists the Mobile layout, checked because it is open, and the Tablet layout, both framed]

Preview another layout using PandaSuite Viewer.

You can switch between layouts on PandaSuite Viewer. Hold your finger on the project icon and choose the layout to be displayed from the menu that appears.

[Image: Project menu in PandaSuite Viewer on a smartphone: the Mobile row under Support lets you pick the layout]

Hold your finger on the project icon to display this menu.

## Delete a layout

In the **Layouts** tab of the project settings, click **Delete layout** next to the layout to remove. A project keeps at least one layout.

[Image: Layouts tab of the project settings: the Mobile and Tablet layouts are available, and the Delete layout button of Mobile is framed]

Be careful, this cannot be undone.