Responsive Design vs. Adaptive Design: What’s the Best Choice for Designers?

The availability of themes through CMS systems like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal has made it simpler for less experienced designers and developers to implement responsive design, which is now used by the majority of new websites. While adaptable design gives you more control, responsive design is significantly easier to construct and maintain. While adaptive layouts can and do use percentages to offer a more fluid feel when scaling, these can once more cause a leap when a window is resized. Responsive layouts are likewise fluid. For instance, the designer used percentage widths in the fluid layout in the image below to ensure that the view would change depending on the user. With responsive, you will be developing with all layouts in mind, which will inevitably complicate and confuse the process. In other words, you should concentrate on developing a viewport for mid-resolution and utilize media queries to later adjust for low and high resolutions. In essence, responsive design is typically preferred for new projects and adaptive design for retrofits.

Examples Of Responsive Web Design?

Newer websites that demand a more fluid user experience or that Google pay more attention to should adopt responsive web design. Due to how simple it is for developers and designers to create and manage flexible websites, many of the top technology and design organisations worldwide favour this design strategy.The effectiveness and user experience of some of the top responsive web design-based websites are then examined. All the while meeting the demands of major companies active in the messaging and eCommerce sectors.

• Slack
• Shopify
• Dribble
• Wordpress

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