Responsive Design Sameness
Stephen Hay, of Responsive Design Workflow book fame, put his two cents into the “why do all responsive sites look the same” debate.
While he agree’s that developers and designers need to work together to produce better results, Stephen doesn’t think this is the cause of the sameness.
Instead he puts the blame back on ourselves in these three areas
- Lack of a solid graphic design foundation
- Excessive reliance on tools
- Lack of critical design thinking when copying the work of other designers
And with the utmost respect for Mark, Tim and others, I tend to be skeptical that getting designers and developers to work together will solve the design sameness problem. That’s not to say it doesn’t need to happen; it certainly does.
An excerpt from Responsive Design Sameness
