After perusing an article at Smashing Magazine (How Much Has the Web Really Changed?), I am reminded (once again) of how complex this business of designing, building and implementing websites has become particularly where responsive design is concerned. Designing for multiple screens with differing resolutions and no clear-cut protocol concerning user interaction/navigation is an on-going challenge. (Not to mention the task of making sites display and be backwards-compatible on multiple browsers in numerous OS environments.)
As the writer Vasilis van Gemert (author of the linked article) notes:
In the last couple of years, we’ve started to realize that designing for this medium is fundamentally different from the design work we’ve done previously. The fixed dimensions and the singular ways of interacting that formed the basis of all types of media that we’ve worked with for centuries just don’t work on the Web.
Given the ever-changing and evolving nature of the underlying technologies, it’s not likely there will be any unifying, simple solutions appearing in the near future in terms of how one goes about designing content for web delivery.
