[Rollindollars]

Sometime ago I posted how i felt on responsive design about been overrated as a solution to the trend of mobile first . Because about 60% of people that use the web today access it from a smartphone, and big players like Google recommend that website masters should take their mobile site seriously.

Then responsive CSS came with a quick fix that lets you build a website that will look good on about any device (PC or Mobile). Many loved this idea as it is quick and mostly rely on making a few adjustments to your CSS code. It is mainly based on the CSS @media query.

Fast-forward to 2018, Big players like Google are now backing other techs (Progressive WebApp - PWS, Accelerated Mobile Page - AMP). These techs only see responsive CSS as a step in the bigger process of building a mobile first WebApp. And both require one to rewrite a dedicated version of ones website/app putting mobile in mind.

In my conclusion, the new techs from Google might not support the philosophy of web designers that preach rendering same design with just a few CSS mod as a mobile version of their site. I preached the advantage of writing a specific code for mobile version in 2015 and got bashed wink is Google preaching the same gospel with their AMP now? If yes, We can agree that responsive design in some context is dying. Peace

[Chameli]

I do not know technicalities behind all this, however, in my experience, having a responsive design helps you to get mobile traffic because mobile users are increasing.

[aecel]

I'm not aware that Responsive web design is dying I remember I tried to learn CSS way back before but I know there's already a software that you could use to convert to be ready-made mobile version of your website I forgot the name you don't have to make CSS though you need to pay for it.

[wood20]

A good design will help u get good traffic to your blog,

[mrki444]

I don't think so. Most of people surf using smartphones different sizes so design should be responsive.

[wood20]

Im not sure about that because i use my phone to visit every site

[Chameli]

Im not sure about that because i use my phone to visit every site

If the website adapts to your screen than it is a responsive design. If the website has a mobile version, it is a responsive design

[mrki444]

What tech should replace responsive design?

[Rational Mind]

responsive web design means the ability to adapt to any screen size. I think responsive web design has become more important because mobile traffic is increasing

[mrki444]

Not only mobile traffic is increasing. There is more and more traffic from IoT Devices. They all have different screen size and need to be adopt.

[Chameli]

responsive web designs have become more important these days as mobile traffic is taking over web traffic

[kat82]

Response design isn't dying I guess. Many themes are developed with support of responsive designs. This means that content can easily be viewed both on mobile, tablet and PC. A friend of mine who is a theme maker shared with me how he was loosing clients due to themes not being responsive. And ever since he switched to responsive designs, clients are back. With mobile devices being used to access the web together with PC's, responsive design will never die.

[Netherrealmer]

Most news sites are super unresponsive because those annoying video ads they are having. Also they have this annoying notifications that is hard to click if you agree for them to take some cookies.