Responsive web design Zen gardening
Rick Monro calls for a responsive design zen garden to help the change over towards a better way to build websites. In the 2000’s the Zen Garden did wonders to improve the uptake of CSS and show that presentation can be separated from content, can we do the same for RWD?
In practice, we can face an unenviable choice on commercial projects: do we deploy a visually unappealing but responsive website, or a highly engaging fixed-width site? An exaggerated distortion perhaps, but one that I believe represents the uncomfortable reality for a large proportion of designers trying to integrate a responsive approach into cost-sensitive projects. Implementing RWD techniques can occasionally detract from the user experience, specifically in the area of visual design. Is compromise the ultimate price we pay for progress?
An excerpt from Responsive web design Zen gardening
