RE: Question for Those of You Wwho Use Mobile Web Devices (iPhones, Smart Phones, etc.)
June 27, 2015 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2015 at 6:17 pm by bennyboy.)
(June 27, 2015 at 11:55 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: I design websites and I want to optimize them for UXD (User Experience Design) but I'm getting conflicting advice from online tutorials, so I thought I'd ask people who actually use these devices what they like better.
Specifically, I'd like to know do you prefer a multi column (2 or 3) page with minimal scrolling or a single column page where you have to scroll a lot?
When responding, please indicate which device you use.
Thanks.
The short answer is never use multiple columns for mobile devices, because they have small screens anyway, and some content will be unreadable on a narrow column.
The long answer is you're the designer, so you have to design the UI based on your own instinct and your customer's priorities. A forum with several posts each a couple hundred words each will be total shit in multi-column; if you've ever used the mobile version of AF, you'll immediately know that. A picture (read: porn) site with all the thumbnails arranged vertically would also be total shit (in my opinion at least). Nobody wants to scroll for 5 minutes to find the image they're looking for.
So unless you want to tell us exactly what kind of website you're designing, the answer is "1 column. . . unless 2 or 3 is better." Which you knew since it's your question.
