I am reviewing some website wireframes from a client and have decided to make the new site responsive. I've had pretty good luck so far with responsive theming and design from a few past projects and they look and act really nice across widths / devices.
However this particular wireframe has quite a few modals and hover windows with lots of information in them.
My questions are:
- Will this be like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole?
- Do we need to perhaps go the
m.domain.comroute where we query the device and design two separate websites? - Should I advise the client to do away with so many modals and hover windows if we go the Responsive route?
I know these are subjective questions so not really sure if this is appropriate within this type of forum.
Answer
Should I advise the client to do away with so many modals and hover windows if we go the Responsive route?
I'd restate that question as:
Should I advise the client to do away with so many modals and hover windows?
And the answer to that is, usually, yes.
But not always. If it's a very complex desktop-centric site, maybe modals are a good option there.
The catch is that on mobile devices, modals are somewhat useless, given that the size of the screen usually means that a modal smaller than that, is rarely useful.
You could consider having two forms of modals...the pop-up on big screens, the separate page on mobile. How easy/difficult that may be to implement, I don't know.
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