I used to work in a consultancy that was run by a designer, and this was painfully true. I had one memory of working for a big American client on a SPA for primary mobile use, and the SPA we designed for them had several animated videos in the background, had overlays for every product, and for “speed” we loaded it all in at the start - for the dozen or so languages supported
In 2016, if someone were to tell you that visiting this product page on mobile would eat 80MB, you’d probably be fucking fuming once your data bill comes through. The designers and frontend engineers didn’t seem to care, because “it loads fine on our devices”, all hooked up to WiFi…
I used to work in a consultancy that was run by a designer, and this was painfully true. I had one memory of working for a big American client on a SPA for primary mobile use, and the SPA we designed for them had several animated videos in the background, had overlays for every product, and for “speed” we loaded it all in at the start - for the dozen or so languages supported
In 2016, if someone were to tell you that visiting this product page on mobile would eat 80MB, you’d probably be fucking fuming once your data bill comes through. The designers and frontend engineers didn’t seem to care, because “it loads fine on our devices”, all hooked up to WiFi…