Dear Designers of the Internets and Websites. When I’m on my laptop or my desktop I do NOT want to view a “mobile-fied” version of your damn sites. <\/p>\n
This truly bothers me. <\/p>\n
I know, I know, responsive design can really simplify development, present a consistent experience and numerous other advantages. However, one of the advantages of using a laptop or desktop is the MUCH larger screen size. I’m getting real tired of having kindergarten-size pictures, which make sense on mobile platforms because of the smaller screen size, take up my whole damn screen on my laptop.<\/p>\n
It now takes me much longer to see\/read\/scroll through (oh! the endless scrolling!) websites that I was able to quickly scan before.<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong, I dig the pictures, and I like that people are paying attention to how things are presented, but can I have smaller images & more information on my big screens? I feel like all sorts of space is not being used as effectively as it could be.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the sites that bother me most are just poorly implemented designs, but man, there seems to be a lot of them out there now and it pisses me off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Designers of the Internets and Websites. When I’m on my laptop or my desktop I do NOT want to view a “mobile-fied” version of your damn sites. This truly bothers me. I know, I know, responsive design can really simplify development, present a consistent experience and numerous other advantages. However, one of the advantages … Continue reading Bad responsive design rant<\/span>