As of late, we have all witnessed the tremendous popularity of Responsive Web Design, while more and more sites have joined the band wagon to become ‘mobile ready’, especially in view of Google’s Mobile Friendly update. Nevertheless, it has given rise to some amount of boredom since most of these sites look more or less similar in manifestation. But if you look at the issue more analytically, you are sure to observe that the design itself is not solely responsible for the monotony as the phenomenal rise of WordPress sites and the thriving theme market has also contributed to the tedium to a great extent.

How Responsive Design originated?

To be precise, the development of the Mobile Web is considered to be the key factor for the rise of the Responsive Web Design. Prior to the advent of Responsive design, people had been trying to access the internet, while on the go, through their mobile devices that include tablets, smartphones, etc, albeit suffering from lots of frustration and disappointment. The issues included pinching of screen, zooming in, wrongly pressed buttons and many more. Needless to say, Responsive Design solved all these at one go as the newly developed sites fitted perfectly within smaller screens without much ado. Also, since the benefits offered through Responsive designs were far more effective as compared to the similarity in looks, people ignored the issue and were happy to reap the benefit.

 

RWD can be expensive – any other way of getting similar benefits?

If you consider all the perspectives, it may not prove so expensive, because with one RWD you can access a wide array of devices, regardless of screen size and resolutions. However, there are also other affordable ways to get a responsive website, such as using a Website Builder with Responsiveness built into their themes. What’s more, Website Builders permit you to edit the content you intend to have on your site in a simple way, at the same time providing for the mobile marketplace.

 

What next after RWD?

It may not be right to assume that researchers are sitting tight over the issue as will be evident with the development of Audio Responsive web pages that allows users to navigate themselves around the web through using their voice. Why? Siri, Cortana and OK Google are already much in use today. As for wearable devices, usually reliable sources have hinted about tightening of the wrist tendons that often eliminates the problem of ‘fat thumbs’ creating navigational issues. No wonder other innovative ideas would soon be available to us.

Incidentally, even though the responsive Web Design is now accepted as most critical to web designing, one of its major traits revolves round the fact that the template responds in terms of the dimensions of the screen, instead of the device that is in use. As a result, no matter what device will in future to be used, the display will always remain perfect.

Also, responsive design, which allows website designers to create sites that adapt to every conceivable screen size, is one of the most  powerful web tools to be implemented in the previous decade. However, adapting to the screen may be considered as the first edge in terms of a new, responsive web. Users will henceforth demand online experience that would not only respond to whatever device they will be using, but also the demography, the time of the day or the night as well as events occurring in real time.

In order to attract the attention of the future generation of the web, you are going to need a lot more than a responsive design – a Responsive weltanschauung.