Visual Aid: Why Responsive Mobile-First Design

Stephanie Walter makes the case for mobile-first web design with a visual metaphor of pouring water into different size containers.

Illustration by Stephanie Walter

Illustration by Stephanie Walter

She based her work on Brad Frost’s Responsive Strategy post. Like all great instructional illustration her graphic doesn’t explain everything (see Frost’s post for that.) Instead she communicates the idea… well… graphically in a way that makes you want to know more.

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David Innes, RealBasics.com

I've been building and maintaining websites since 1997 and building and supporting similar hypertext-driven software since 1987. I've done maintenance, support, and maintenance for physical and digital systems since 1981. And no, I still haven't seen it all but by now I usually know where to look.