October 4th, 2019

Replying to a tweet from @slightlylate

Mobile-first responsive design works.

The alternative is far worse—separate code bases; separate m. sites? Never again!

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Cheney Tsai

well if you have infinite resources and want a 100% optimized experience for the form factor…..sure (then again at that point you’d have a native app team too)

Been having a similar discussion at work. The problem is that most people think that mobile first starts at the UI design point, not the content point. So they start cramming desktop amounts of content in a mobile UI.

Greg Smith

The client and biz-driven desire was usually (and is still) strong for heavy, desktop-first design, which we then “smush down” for the mobile experience. Even the biggest teams, who you’d assume have infinite resources, usually do not 😉

Alex Russell

The problem is that nobody really does “mobile-first”. ~everybody designs/builds on desktop, and few know about or use chrome://inspect as they core of their workflow: developers.google.com/web/tools/chro…

Kilian Valkhof

That’s why I’m building polypane.app! Loved both your talks at @fronteersconf by the way :)

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