Designing for Mobiles

Reading about ‘res­ol­u­tion depend­ant lay­outs’ over on Warpspire (which takes a nar­row defin­i­tion ‘res­ol­u­tion depend­ant lay­outs’; only the pixel based (fixed) design via the JavaScript-route), it was the part about design for Mobile devices that really hit the nail.

Sorry folks, mobile devices deserve com­pletely dif­fer­ently designed web­sites than nor­mal sites. No amount of style switch­ing is going to change the fact that it’s a com­pletely dif­fer­ent exper­i­ence. Different exper­i­ences deserve dif­fer­ent design. Period.
~ Kyle Neath of Warpspire

He’s right. Note that this isn’t just good design sense, it’s also a prac­tical take on how to build them. It fixes any issues one might have with the mobile design of ones web­site, as design­ers can just let it go. Simply let the UA (User Agent; the browser) decide what’s best for that device with those fonts and those dimensions.

On: Design • 15th March of 2006 • Comments are closed.