Mobile devices are the part of every hand nowadays. These are no more limited only to calling and sending text messages. They have seen numerous application in today’s world. Seeing tremendous application in a number of fields, it won’t be difficult to conclude that web accessibility through mobile phones are dominating over any other devices being used to access the internet.
Current Design Trends
Although a lot has been changed in the design pattern by now, but the need of mobile based design has significantly increased and this need continues to rise. Responsive design pattern has come up as a masterpiece and definitely proved to be a boon for the various mobile platforms. Let’s take a look at some stats from a reputed design website before proceeding further.
Why Mobile First?
Today, most of the pockets hold a smartphone and it is the clear indication that the web has now broken out of its computer shaped box. However, it might not be sufficient to conclude that mobile web access is popular and we should go behind the prioritizing mobile design. Rather it demands a strategy seeing which we can say that we should put mobile first. The fact from the United States that 25% of mobile users are mobile-only means other 75% of them aren’t. Rest of the users must be using a desktop for accessing the internet. So why are we concerned going by mobile-first route? The answer is Gradual Degradation vs Progressing Upgradation. Let’s explore more.
Over the several decades, micro-computers have ruled being the only source of world wide interaction. However, in past decades, there has been a consistent rise in the mobile devices and its users have significantly increased in number. More than that, the number has also been growing consistently. Apart from this, there has been subsequent decline in the number of PC users. Coming years will witness majority of internet users as mobile users with very few of them using internet on computers.
This brings us to conclude that upcoming design trends must prioritize the mobile design.
