Resposnive_web_designHow important is Responsive Web design to your business?

Responsive Web design Is critical for the success of your online business. Considering that we are living in a mobile digital age, Responsive Mobile Web Design is critical. By the year 2014, more then 40% of all online searches will be conducted on mobile phones. Tablet sales for 2013 are expected to to exceed 100 million this year according to Mashable.com. If your website is not scalable i.e; responsive, you will loose potential customers to your competitors that do have responsive mobile websites. Just last month, Luke Wroblewski, former Chief Design Architect VP for Yahoo and a digital product leader also known for his book “Mobile First”, shared  a collection of statistics about the impact of moving to responsive web design. Luke Wroblewski also went on to say that “If you’re not thinking about mobile and tablet usage on your web properties yet, you need to be – it is the next frontier and it is upon you now; start taking action or be left in the wake of your competitors”.

 

What is Responsive Web Design 

As defined by wikipedia, it is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones.

 

To view some responsive web design see links below:

if your on a PC click the edge of the website and drag it. This shows the scalability applied by hardware devices.

http://designhousegroup.com

http://sixtysixfilms.com

http://thegalleryinteriors.net

 

Instagram video demonstrating scalability from desktop, ipad and mobile hardware.

http://instagram.com/p/htYf_CuNHq/