It’s a transitional time for websites and mobile devices. As increasing numbers of consumers spend less time on their PCs and more time on their mobile devices, it’s more important than ever for sites to design specifically for such devices.
“The problem is that much of the Web is just too overcrowded for tablet displays. When you load up a site on your iPad, you’re often presented with a crush of text, pictures, and videos that are jammed up together. Sites are powered by code that’s too slow and buggy for small devices, they’re stuffed with buttons and links that are too small to hit with a finger, and their pictures don’t look good on super-high-definition tablet displays,” writes Slate.
The tablet should now be the first consideration for designers, suggests the article. It’s time to reprioritize and put PC page design behind mobile. “They ought to think of tablets first when they’re creating new sites. Only after building pages for 7- and 9-inch touchscreens should they tweak their sites for desktop browsers.”
Because of the simple and often elegant design of tablet pages, columnist Farhad Manjoo believes that the entire Web, traditional and mobile, would be vastly improved if tablet design became the top priority for designers.
“Web companies should focus on building a unified experience that can work across every gadget. In an ideal world, the mobile site wouldn’t be an offshoot of the desktop site — the desktop site would be the same as the mobile site, a clean, quick-loading page that looked good on every gadget,” writes Manjoo.
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