Yes! Yes! Yes! Mark nails it: just because someone visits a site with a certain kind of device doesn’t mean you can make assumptions about their intentions.
A concise case study from gov.uk:
Designing for the constraints of mobile is useful – if we get the fundamentals of the service working on small screens and slow network speeds, it can work on more capable devices.
A great meaty piece from Cennydd, diving deep into the tricky question of context.
A really great article from Stephen on how we are mistakenly making assumptions about what users want. He means it, man!
See also: bandwidth.
Aaaaaand once again, the Riegers show us the way. This time it’s Stephanie’s presentation at Breaking Development in Dallas. Bloody brilliant.
A follow-up on responsive web design.
Clarifying the problem space of responsive web design.