Our website uses adaptive design, that send either to mobile or tablet. Do we need to consider Phablets for new designs?
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Do we need to start considering designing specifically for Phablets?
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Thanks for the responses. I'll be analyzing the traffic that we get from the different devices. The site is not responsive design; because of the size and nature of the content, we had to go for adaptive design. Right now we have javascript that detects the user agents and deliver the appropriate CSS formatting. I am wondering if Phablets (specially iphone 6plus) will behave more like tablets, or like a smartphones.
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I came across this post about the "Responsive Design View" feature in Firefox.
http://sridharkatakam.com/responsive-design-view-presets-firefox-web-development/
Thanks to the new iPhone 6 and 6 plus there are now 4 more views for mobile devices! This post takes you through using the tool and adding the iPhone 6 resolutions. As Mobile continues to grow designing specifically for a good mobile user experience gains importance. I think this tool is pretty cool and was surprised by some of the results on my site.
Hope it helps!
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Design for what is important to your company, first. Are you getting a large portion of traffic through a new device? That may warrant putting resources into the design for that specific device.
If not, then do not worry about it so much. Monitor the performance and traffic from those devices and adjust as necessary.
If you want to position yourself as proactive, rather than reactive, then begin to consider a truly responsive design (fluid). This way your working towards a site that looks good at all device dimensions. Even still, when a specific device takes priority (largest portion of traffic), there should be resources put into the UI/UX for that specific device.
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Depends, most sites using responsive or adaptive design work fine on the design for tablets mostly. Maybe in the future when there really is a huge market for these you want to adapt to them.
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I believe that design has more to do with size of the device, if you consider investing on responsive design, you probably didn’t really have to worry about what hardware it is!
Hope this helps!
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