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Agree! "Mobile First" design thinking should not mean "Mobile Only." What was supposed to be a call to consider all of the devices your users may be utilizing
by jaredwiener 7y ago
Agree! "Mobile First" design thinking should not mean "Mobile Only." What was supposed to be a call to consider all of the devices your users may be utilizing, it just transferred the preference from one type of device to another.
Why can't we just have sites/apps/SPAs/whatever that look and work well on whatever device they supposedly support?
- JohnFen 7y ago> Why can't we just have sites/apps/SPAs/whatever that look and work well on whatever device they supposedly support? Indeed. There seems to be a weird idea that it's possible to make a UI that works well on all form factors. I don't see how that's possible, and I've never seen it happen in practice. What actually happens is that you have a UI that works well on one form factor and badly on the others, or you have a UI that works poorly on them all.
- jaredwiener 7y agoI think NYTimes.com is a good example. Theres a hamburger menu that expands to the whole screen when on mobile or tablet; its a sidebar on desktop. The whole arrangement of articles becomes linear on mobile; it isnt on desktop. It looks like someone figured out how it should look at every state, and then developed a way to gracefully switch between them -- not that it was a mobile UI that someone decided to enlarge on desktop. This is why we have media queries in CSS!