DPD's new website has many marvelous features, such as smaller text than before hidden in a huge sea of white space on my large desktop monitor (mobile first ?) so that I have to scroll scroll scroll endlessly and click between different pages to do what used to happen on one screen, but that's nothing compared with my absolute favourite new feature which is the message which appears when payment is successful. It looks like this.
Frankly, I preferred the web twenty years ago when we didn't have to wait so long and things usually just worked.
#shitwebsitedesign #mobilefirst #microsoft #errormeanssuccess #wtf #dpd #honestlyallwebsitesworkedbettertwentyyearsago

Am I the only one that gets frustrated websites and especially webapps are not usable on mobile devices?

I mean... how long has the smartphone been around? In digital history terms for aeons?

And still there are websites and apps that their developers seem not to use on their phones....

Wie der #oebb Ticketshop mich am Desktop einfach direkt nach Login "aus Sicherheitsgründen" wieder ausloggt - aber die App tut weiter.

Blödes #mobileFirst, ey.

@obsolete29 Look at the use of images in news coverage while you're at it.

I agree with you that such images add little informationally to posts. They may serve other functions.

People are innately visual. They're (on average) far less literate. We process visual data readily, textual ... not nearly so fast.

An image may be iconic. Literally in the case of religious symbology. National symbols. Celebrities. Indicia of wealth or prosperity (from money to gold to other symbols of abundance). Tribal signals.

There's little question that images can increase engagement. They may simply be a part of styling or branding.

That said, something that's increasingly annoying to me is "mobile-first" designs of news sites --- ft.com, nytimes.com, and reuters.com all come to mind --- making very heavy use of images. I view these mostly on a 13" e-ink tablet, and all that the images do is crowd real information off the sites. It's a nuisance.