Is Responsive Design the Answer to Your Multiple Platform Needs?

Responsive Design & StrategicUser Interface Development for Multiple Platforms

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Is Responsive Design the answerto your multiple plaform needs?

Is Responsive Design the answerto your multiple plaform needs? no

Is Responsive Design the answerto your multiple plaform needs? no & yes

ﬁrst, – somebackground

We used to design for this

And more recently this

But lately...

It’s gotten crowded

Any analyst will tell you

wouldn’t it be nice?

What RWD is,and what it’s not

RWD is bloody hard, that’s what it is. (= expensive & time consuming)

what RWD is not

It will not magicallytransform your web site into a great mobile site

layout ≠ content

context is king(people want their iPhone websites)

photoshop on a phone just wouldn’t work (actually it does)

a proposal a sensible approach to designingfor multiple platforms

1. let go(you just can’t please everybody)

2. diet(nobody wants your junk)

3. think mobile ﬁrst (focus, touch & location) www.lukew.com

4. “app” it(software has always been built this way)

Platform categories liberated data

orientation &input methods

liberateddata?

your CMS will not be happy

Cats: All your templates are belong to us

you’ve all seen this

1998 2008

old news?

consider...

1998 2015

2008 2015

2015: 30 - 50 millionobjects on the carrier networks in Norway. telenor 2010: 5,65 million 2009: 5,2 million

2012: wiﬁ light bulbs an IP-address for every light bulb

Your most importantdesign decision will not be esthetic

Questions?

thanks for listening

@feiring

Is Responsive Design the Answer to Your Multiple Platform Needs?

by Jonas Feiring on May 25, 2011

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