Title: When Should We Use App, Responsive and Mobile Design?
Context: So many platforms and so little time to design for all of them. What’s the best approach?
Synopsis: The world is going mobile. That’s great but what does that mean for UI development? Do you approach mobile first as your primary use case? Do you make everything custom and target specific applications to specific platforms? Or do you do take the path of least resistance and go the responsive route? Surely you already knew the answer would be: it depends. One needs to weigh all of the user, business and development considerations against the range of flexibility each option affords you. And just to overcomplicate matters, as HTML 5 adoption becomes standard on most platforms and creates a viable – and robust – alternative to native code, does all of this multi-platform hand-wringing cease to matter? Who knows? Well I do, but I’m not feeling very “responsive” right now. (See what I did there?)
Best Bit: “It is obvious if you are limited to one option to choose from all of the above; it is to make your main site utilize Responsive Web Design.”
via designs4ux.com
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