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My takeway: Building a good responsive webpage requires significantly more engineering resources and expertise than most people have access to. Just to accompli
by dreamdu5t 14y ago
My takeway: Building a good responsive webpage requires significantly more engineering resources and expertise than most people have access to. Just to accomplish one responsive page required a team of engineers experienced in the full front-end stack along with industry experts to lead them.
What if in the near future only large businesses like Microsoft will have the resources to produce responsive websites? What does this mean for small lean startup teams?
- IanDrake 14y agoReally? I've done one and it's pretty easy if you know how it works and design with the constraints of responsive design in mind. The hard part is how to redesign ANY large scale website. There are so many stakeholders involved, so many languages/cultures to consider, so many product lines vying for attention, and lots of legacy content to retro-fit or cut.
- dreamdu5t 14y agoIs it more than just a blog/text? I'd like to see it since you claim it was "pretty easy." I know a lot about how responsive design works and designing within those constraints, and I would say "pretty easy" is a huge understatement.
- IanDrake 14y agoYes, it's a fairly large iPad/iPhone app (using phonegap), but unfortunately it's an enterprise app and not in the app store.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoI think calling this "one responsive page" understates the true size of Microsoft's presence and the difficulties associated with not getting a design-by-committee pile of gunk out the other side[1]. 1. http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html
- dreamdu5t 14y agoThat may be and I didn't mean to belittle how much work went into deciding what went on that page - but it is only one page that is responsive.