Airplanes : Sailboats :: Mobile : Desktop
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Claim: mobile design is a new technology layer that lets teams build rigid‑wing sailboats—America’s Cup–style interfaces engineered with computational fluid dynamics thinking—yet those same techniques produce sites that are faster but harder to use. Evidence includes the leap from desktop-era Yahoo pages to mobile redirects and a confusing Gawker redesign that breaks scrolling, plus the note that ~4 in 10 Americans knew the iPhone before launch. Tools mentioned: responsive CSS, headless APIs, user testing; outcome: power and fragility coexist.
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