On 4/10/2014 10:33 AM, Chris Williams wrote:
Then you all can be happy carrying your pagers and listening to the latest hit from Abba as well. Mobile use is not a fad. It's not just something those whippersnappers are doing, even if you're not. It is, for many, the first and sometimes only web device they use. And it's use is growing exponentially. The problem that "mobile-first" is trying to solve is an issue not simply one of making content "flow" properly. Mobile devices have so much less screen space as to force a complete re-think of what the content is. Simply re-flowing vast amounts of content onto a small space makes for a terrible user experience. You need to re-design so that you provide only the essential content on a mobile device, and as you scale up, you add optional content. The solution that mobile-first presents is rather than taking a full-scale site and trying to decide what to throw out, you start with the essentials and scale up. It's as much a thought exercise as it is a design strategy. It's not about writing to specific mobile-device browsers, it's about designing a site and its content so that it makes sense on mobile, and then adding all the great "extras" when you have the luxury of screen space.
Chris On 4/10/14 3:24 AM, "Philip Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
Chris These are excellent points. I deal with two different audiences. One group consists of quite conservative engineers and technicians the other consists of community college students.
I have used websites to present math to my students in the classroom and have in the past expected them to access those websites at home for study. I notice that each semester more students rely strictly on their cell phone and do not have a desktop. I have been trying to figure out how I can connect more favorably with them and your comments about "essential content" may have set me in a productive direction. I have decided to do some things (flash cards) with some kind of app so I can push certain information out to them in a manner which is convenient for them.
Do you anticipate giving your user more options to select bits and pieces of content?
Now I anticipate using your ideas to completely redesign my sites. Thanks. This has been an interesting and useful thread. Del ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
