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The length of the article was not responsive, however. Way too long for users of small mobile screens.

• japhyr 14y ago
  I had the opposite reaction. Long articles are fairly easy to read on mobile sites that are designed well.
• publicfig 14y ago
  I'm not sure what you mean by that. The length doesn't seem to cause a problem with the design on mobile, at least on all the devices I have. edit: Maybe you're trying to say that the length makes the article unfriendly to mobile. In that case, it's worth pointing out that responsive design is not synonymous with mobile design, but a separate process. While responsive design may affect the mobile layout, responsiveness has very little to do with factors such as article length.
  • billirvine 14y ago
    Being currently steeped in responsive design (not mobile-first, which really, the opening link for this thread is a mobile-first approach, that happens to be responsive), I concur. We have 6 small screens and 9 tablets we use for testing... design is important, but design is a wrapper for content... some better, some bad, some awesome. The question being, as we consider stepping firmly into the scenario of an unpredictably wide range of screen sizes and use-cases accessing the content we create, should we also consider the amount of copy we impose on smaller screens and/or mobile users with unknown time/bandwidth for content consumption? I think responsible creators of digital content should consider content-length as much as UI.
• adrianhoward 14y ago
  Since I read it, with pleasure, on my iPhone I would beg to differ :) (Also in the usability tests I've done I've never seen text length be an issue for readers on mobile. I'd be interested if you seen something different.)