Stop Designing for Phones: A Responsive Redesign Field Report
You think you're building mobile-first, but your CSS says otherwise. Here's what happened when we audited a small business site and fixed reflow, contrast, and Core Web Vitals.
Responsive design and web accessibility.
You think you're building mobile-first, but your CSS says otherwise. Here's what happened when we audited a small business site and fixed reflow, contrast, and Core Web Vitals.
WebAIM's Million study found 95.9% of home pages have WCAG failures. I walk through my CSS/HTML process to avoid the most common errors.
Should you design for mobile or desktop first? With over half of web traffic on phones, starting small makes sense. Here's how to do it without neglec...
Accessibility failures are rampant, but most fixes don't require a redesign. I argue that small, targeted tweaks solve the biggest problems.
Most design galleries are inaccessible, slow, and hard to browse. I rebuilt one in a week using a mobile-first approach, and here's exactly how I did ...
Accessibility is no longer optional. By 2026, many sites will face legal mandates and real user loss. This tutorial walks through a realistic audit an...
We stop treating mobile-first as a slogan and design for the worst viewport first. Here's how to make responsive tutorials that actually survive WCAG ...
Mobile-first is dead. The real challenge is designing for reflow, container queries, and WCAG. We compare two responsive approaches and declare a clea...
Chasing device widths for breakpoints is a trap. We dig into container queries and content-first breakpoints, showing why component-led responsive des...
Stop designing for desktop first. WCAG 2.1 says your content must reflow at 320px. Here's how to build a truly responsive, accessible UI that works on...
CSS Grid and Flexbox both build responsive layouts, but they serve different jobs. Learn which one wins for page-level structure and which for compone...
Stop designing for viewports. Container queries let components adapt to their real context. I'll show you why this is the future of responsive CSS and...
Responsive design isn't dead, but the tools have changed. I compare old-school fluid grids with modern container queries and argue that container quer...