Today everyone talks a great deal about responsive web designs as that makes the website compatible for various platforms, varying from desktop PCs to handheld mobile phones. In the race of creating responsive web designs, web design Sydney companies tend to miss out certain key points, which turn out to be grave mistakes in the longer run. You should know about these mistakes so that you can instruct your designers to avoid these while they design your website or upgrade the existing one.
Screen sizes cause a lot of mistakes
Most of the web designers tend to commit the mistake of focusing on the type of device and do the designing accordingly. Instead, focusing on screen size would be a better option as there are thousands of android devices in the market and the count is increasing with every passing day. No matter how many types of devices are there, the screen sizes will not vary much and hence designing as per the screen size is a better thing to do.
While doing the task of web designing, many web design Sydney based firms tend to commit the mistake of focusing only on small screen sizes. Doing so, they tend to mess up with the content and specially the resolution of images that breaks into pixels when scaled up in a large screen. Even though the numbers are reducing, but in today’s date more than half of the population that hits the Internet does so by means of desktop PCs which have large sized monitor screens.
Content that gets hidden triggers dissatisfaction
Would you feel good if you visit the takeaway counter of a large chain restaurant and discover that not everything from the menu of the large restaurant is made available in the menu of the takeaway counter? Your answer would be definitely negative. Likewise, users hate it when they do not find a piece of information on the mobile version that is available on the desktop version of the site.
In their effort to cut down content to fit the smaller screens, designers from web design Sydney based firms tend to hide a lot of content, which are not so relevant. What they tend to miss out is even one out of hundred customers who access the website from handheld devices may be looking for that so called not relevant information and would really not be satisfied if they do not find it readily available.
Navigation is forced to be consistent
As while in Rome you should be doings as the Romans do, similarly when you are getting a website designed for multiple platforms you have to provide the flexibility of navigation options while doing the web design. This is one common mistake that is committed by many web designers who work with responsive web design. They insist on having consistency of navigation without acknowledging the fact that a large sized button may look and fit well on a large screen but would look clumsy when viewed on a small screen. Button sizes and visual layouts are things, which should not be kept consistent in case of responsive web designing.
The biggest mistake that is being made while creating responsive web design is that the designs are not being tested in real life environment across platforms. Results from the tests conducted at the designer’s desk, and the observations from real life usage could vary by a great extent thereby giving a poor user experience which would fail the overall purpose of investing in a responsive web design.
