Tips to Design a Quality Mobile-Friendly Website
Mobile-friendly websites as well as responsive designs are the current trend. For this reason, your company and clients may want to follow suit and go mobile.
When you construct a mobile-friendly website, this means you need to rethink the design process for it to look good on a wide range of screens of different mobile platforms. Your full website may be clear when viewed on tablets, but since the screens of smartphones are a lot smaller, your job is to give owners a pleasurable user experience.
To accomplish that, you need to go through various steps – a number of basic guidelines that appear to apply to nearly all projects about design for mobile devices. Here are a number of helpful tips:
Remain Simple
Always remember that simplicity is best for mobile-friendly websites. More often than not, content overload is not good even for a desktop. A mobile site that is heavy is not friendly at all. It is actually a lot easier to make a mobile website over complicated.
Be Straight to the Point
What does the design of a mobile website or mobile app aim to do? It is to get users to what they need soonest, with fewer taps, swipes and needed attention. If an unwanted screen appears, skip it. This means that your mobile website should not have more than what it needs.
Give Access
In order for visitors to start navigating your site, they need to enter it. The server recognizes mobile devices, so you need to ensure that mobile visitors are automatically brought to the mobile page.
Make It Short
Don’t let users input a lot of text. This can be a problem for tablets, more so for smartphones, where it can hurt when you type something beyond a message, comment or tweet. In case you require a form to be filled -such as a signup – make it short. It could be a password, login or email. An added field lessens user satisfaction.
Brand it
Your website should certainly show your brand with its logo, style and colors to make it easy to recognize. You could always find a way to include them in the design without affecting usability.
Avoid Overcrowding
Avoid placing a lot of information on a single screen page. This will crowd the interface and make it hard to navigate. Visitors should be able to easily go through your web pages, without feeling pressured.
Designed for the Screen
Your designer will ask your advice before making decisions on how you like your mobile site to look. Such rules include the right size of buttons and proper space between them (to avoid pressing the wrong button). Avoid filling pages with too many images or allowing intrusive popups. These and more suggestions will create a more attractive website, because being convenient to use is attractive.
Test for Compatibility
Test your website properly in a wide range of devices, different operating system versions as well as screen resolutions. However, development companies lack in supply of mobile devices for testing therefore you can only choose a few.
When you follow some of these guidelines if not all, the design for mobile will be much appealing for your visitors.
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