Responsive or adaptable web design is a design technique that looks for the right visualization of the same web page on different devises, from desktop computers to tablets and mobile phones.
Nowadays, we access different websites from a wide variety of devises: computers, tablets, smartphones… In response to this always growing tendency is that we need to have a website that can be compatible with all devise sizes. But, what does this really imply?
What does responsive design really mean?
It is resizing and arranging web elements in a way that they adapt to the width of any devise allowing a good visualization and user experience. Its main feature is that content layout and
Responsive design allows to reduce development time, it avoids double contents and increases virality because you can share them in a more natural and fast way.
It is based on giving website users the same contents and a very similar user experience different from other kinds of mobile web development approaches such as app creation, change of domain or websites dynamically build based for en specific devise.
To cut the story short, responsive web design is regarded as one of the best practices of web design nowadays. It has pros and cons like everything else, but nothing on the world of web design has beaten it yet.
