Process
Designing for every screen: inside our mobile-first process
More than half of your visitors arrive on a phone. Here is the step-by-step process we use to make sure every Wildframe site looks and works beautifully on any device.
Daniel Reyes
Wildframe studio
Your website does not live on one screen. The same visitor might discover you on their phone during a commute, come back on a laptop at work and share you from a tablet on the sofa. A great site has to feel just as good in every one of those moments.
We start with the smallest screen
Designing for mobile first forces us to focus on what truly matters. With limited space, every headline, image and button has to earn its place. Once the phone layout is clear and fast, expanding it for larger screens is about adding room, not fixing problems.
Our four-step process
- Content first. We map out what visitors need to see and in what order, before any visual design begins.
- Phone layouts. We design the key pages for a narrow screen, with thumb-friendly buttons and readable text sizes.
- Scaling up. We adapt each layout for tablets and desktops, using the extra space for richer imagery and side-by-side sections.
- Real device testing. We check every page on actual phones, tablets and monitors, not just a resized browser window.
Speed is part of the design
A beautiful page that takes too long to load on mobile data is a page people leave. We optimize images, keep layouts lean and make sure the most important content appears first, so the experience feels instant wherever it is opened.
The result is a site that never feels like a shrunken desktop page or a stretched phone app. It simply feels right, on every screen your customers use.
