Chapter 2. Design for mobile first
This chapter covers
- Why mobile first
- Designing headers for small screens
- Designing for a touch interface
- Simplified small-screen responsive grids
- Using web fonts in layouts
There’s a term I like to use to describe what happens when a project starts to get out of control: “gilding the lily.” It’s an idiom that’s derived from Shakespeare, and it means to unnecessarily embellish something. A lot of gilding of lilies can go on when you assume everybody visiting your website is on a desktop browser.
When you have a 1,600-pixel-wide canvas, you have a lot of space to fill, so you might add more buttons, animation, widgets, and images. If you were only designing for a desktop, that would be great, but the ...
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