Hi all,
I was going through lot of developers personal sites. In most of them, I have observed that while browsing the site in desktop it has lot of padding on both sides, so much that even though I am browsing it on the desktop, I feel like I am reading it on a mobile device.
I understand now the whole web works on mobile-first approach. But I wanted to understand if it's a consequence of following mobile first approach or an intentional behavior.
If it is an intentional behavior, what could be the rationale behind it?
Please comment below
Top comments (4)
If it's not a landing page or a graphic intensive layout, there should be enough padding to where the text doesn't go so wide that it's hard to read, just like a physical text book... However, the amount of space available should be better utilized than mobile layout.
I can't quote my source here, but I've read multiple times that shorter lines help people focus and be more comfortable while reading.
Take my own blog for example: christopherkade.com, each article is centred while the previous iteration of this blog was much, much wider which tended to be a recurring complain.
Yes, that seems like a valid point.
Iām guilty of that. I designed for mobile first, and was planning to do desktop later, but just never got to it later. The mobile layout was all I needed at the time. Iād rather leave blank space and keep line lengths readable, but I agree that the design feels lacking on a larger screen. Thanks for bringing this up, it reminds me to do a design update for desktop. :-)