https://blog.vfiles.no/tags/mobile-first/Recent content in Mobile-First on A blogHugoen-us<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, except where indicated otherwiseMon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://blog.vfiles.no/posts/mobile-first-designing-music-reviews/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://blog.vfiles.no/posts/mobile-first-designing-music-reviews/<p>I built <a href="https://music.vfiles.no">music.vfiles.no</a> as a place to publish music reviews, artist pages, and yearly top lists. It&rsquo;s a Gatsby and React site under the hood, but this post isn&rsquo;t really about the stack. It&rsquo;s about a decision I made before writing a single component: design for the phone first, and let the computer screen catch up later.</p> <h2 id="why-mobile-first-actually">Why mobile first, actually</h2> <p>Everyone says &ldquo;mobile first&rdquo; until it&rsquo;s inconvenient. Then the moodboard becomes a 1440px Figma frame, the hero image gets a 21:9 crop, and the phone version turns into &ldquo;well, it&rsquo;ll probably wrap fine.&rdquo;</p>