Why is mobile responsiveness more important in website design? And the facts you have to know before starting to do a website.

“Mobile phone”, is a smart tool that everyone can get the whole world into their hands. In the past few years, the number of people who’re using mobile phones has increased by a higher percentage. 

By the beginning of 2017, mobile web usage had overtaken desktop computers used for browsing the internet. So from there, it is growing day by day.  With the development of new techniques, mobile phones have become a part of human lives and It is a well-known fact. At present, most people who are older than 65 years, are also using mobile phones for internet browsing.  About 85% of men and women who live in the USA are using smartphones. (source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/)

So this impact caused big changes in various fields like Digital marketing and especially in web development and website UI UX design. As of 2018, Google announced that they are migrating websites that are mobile responsive in the mobile-first index. (which means, Google now primarily crawl, index and rank the mobile version of the website) so it will be more important to have a solid mobile design for your website too.

And what are the other benefits you get with a responsive website? 

Let’s have a look now,

You already know the meaning of “responsive”. So, how do we implement this responsiveness into our website and what are the advantages you get? 

People are using various kinds of mobiles. There are thousands of models of smartphones, and some are using tablets also. It also has various kinds of models in different sizes. Can you think that what will happen if we use only the desktop version for all of these devices? 

Yes, you’re correct! Then the visitors will fall into serious trouble. Maybe, they have to read all the contents using a magnifying glass. 

Why? 

The whole large version of the website needs to compress to the size of the relevant device. It directly affects the User Experience(UI) also. Some UI designer designs a great-looking website user interface. but it will be useless if it’s not a responsive one. In another hand, it’s wasting of your money. “Responsive” will solve this problem we discussed.

One website which suits any kind of device will;

          •Save your money,

          •Save your time,

          •More return visitors & make you more business!

And there are much more things.

Responsive web design can provide an optimal experience for users across the board, and they can read the thing on your website very clear and navigate the site with minimum resizing and scrolling. When your website becomes responsive, then it will have the chance to rank on the google search engine on the first page with google mobile indexing. (doing SEO, is also important to rank your website better, on the search engines). Your website’s bounce rate will surely decrease if your website is responsive and it has good usability. So it will open the door to getting more advantages. 

If the UI designer can provide a design for both desktop, tablet & mobile devices, then it will save much time for the developer as well as yours. I know that some developers won’t need the mobile/tablet version designs from the UI designer. Because they know how to convert the desktop version design to a responsive one, by keeping the same best user experience. The developer is doing coding and the UI UX designer has much responsibility for doing proper UI design for the desktop version as well as the mobile versions. Because the designer has the most creative eye for UI design. If that designer did the mobile versions too, then that developer also would do that website responsively.

So before you start to do a website, you must choose a good UI UX designer and A good developer. First, ask the designer that can he give the mobile versions too. Also, ask the developer that can he do the responsive development. If those persons are responding positively to the questions, and they are good for your work (Don’t forget to see some previous works of them.)

Thanks to mobile-first indexing, Most websites are responsive. But I saw some earlier websites keep the same without modifying them as responsive websites.  This article contains a few things about responsive website design. If you’re interested in this you can google and you’ll find lots of information about responsive website design and its importance. 

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