Luke Wroblewski has been talking a lot on and off the web recently about designing for mobile first, and I wish I’d have run across his stuff a year ago. My current project at work is retrofitting a site I had previously worked on into a mobile presence. The job is going easy enough, but I keep having to omit great content because I was short-sighted in the way I originally structured things. Had I designed with mobile first in mind, I could have provided a much more information-rich experience on the mobile side.
Luke makes a compelling argument for why mobile is the platform of the future (dare I say, the platform of RIGHT NOW), and honestly a lot of developers are all going to be playing catchup if we keep building sites like it’s 1999. It’s time to adapt to the new paradigm or be left behind with the TRS-80s and 3.5″ floppy disks.