I finally finished the website redesign for Mostly Serious but instead of making the site responsive down to the mobile level, I opted to go with a separate, but fairly similar, mobile site design. The focus of the mobile site is to give extremely easy access to the different areas of the website—so, naturally, I made four gigantic fucking buttons to get to the interior pages. From there, the navigation will be much like an iOS app, where users will go back to this screen to access the others pages. The one exception is an ever-present email button in the top right of each screen.
Love the simplicity. I personally prefer a mobile-specific version in most cases. Responsive is nice, but not always ideal for most applications. It should be designed for the device! Good job...
@Tom Greever, I agree. Assuming there is room in the budget we almost always separate mobile from tablet/web. For many of our client's projects—and our own products—users are wanting very specific information when they access the site from a phone, so it makes sense to adjust the website to provide that information front and center.
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Jarad Johnson
I finally finished the website redesign for Mostly Serious but instead of making the site responsive down to the mobile level, I opted to go with a separate, but fairly similar, mobile site design. The focus of the mobile site is to give extremely easy access to the different areas of the website—so, naturally, I made four gigantic fucking buttons to get to the interior pages. From there, the navigation will be much like an iOS app, where users will go back to this screen to access the others pages. The one exception is an ever-present email button in the top right of each screen.
Thanks to Marshall for the iPhone template, and Mike Hall for the hand holding it.
And, if you'd like, you may follow me on Twitter, because I guess we're doing that now.
12 months ago
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Sinziana Ene
Nice!
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Brittany Bilyeu
Love the new colors!
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Tom Greever
Love the simplicity. I personally prefer a mobile-specific version in most cases. Responsive is nice, but not always ideal for most applications. It should be designed for the device! Good job...
12 months ago
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Jarad Johnson
Thanks Sinziana and Brittany!
@Tom Greever, I agree. Assuming there is room in the budget we almost always separate mobile from tablet/web. For many of our client's projects—and our own products—users are wanting very specific information when they access the site from a phone, so it makes sense to adjust the website to provide that information front and center.
12 months ago
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Tanveer Junayed
Very nice Jarad!
12 months ago
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Jarad Johnson
Thanks Tanveer!
12 months ago