Friday Question: When Did You Last Check Your Website on Your Phone? 📱

Not on your laptop.

Not in the editor preview.

On your actual phone. The way your customers see it.

This week I did exactly that with my own website. And I didn’t love what I saw.

The menu button was plain. The dropdown felt like an afterthought. And the most important button, “Let’s Talk,” was just another line of text in a list.

So I rebuilt it.

✔ A clearer menu button

✔ A proper slide-out menu

✔ A call-to-action you can’t miss

Nothing was “broken.” It just wasn’t helping anyone take the next step.

Here’s a 60-second test you can do right now:

→ Open your website on your phone → Tap the menu → Try to contact yourself

How many taps did it take? Did anything feel awkward?

Friday question: when did you last check your website on your phone? And what did you notice? 👇

While exploring the public domain search engine Picryl, I found original 19th-century Penny Dreadful magazines that fascinated me with how they showcased the deep-rooted social fears and moral panics of Victorian England. It inspired a question: What if the same victorian era experienced modern fears associated with new technology? How different are we in regards to our perception of change? How would society react? How would it appear in the entertainment publications that were popular by that time? It gave birth to this project. THE SILICON SPECTRES: "The narrative doth unfold as a most mysterious series of events, transpiring within a city of the Victorian era. Strange devices, hailing from a future not so distant, do persist in making their appearance, even as every soul within the city begins to exhibit behaviours most peculiar. 'Tis Detective John G. Blackwood who hath taken it upon himself to investigate this curious affair; and the question doth remain — shall he discover what lurks behind these strange devices, and thereby save the souls of the citizens thereof?" You can check out the Loom video for a full walkthrough of my conceptual and design process. https://www.loom.com/share/184e673fbca04d4998f277b8f337c933 You can also share the LinkedIn and X posts: https://lnkd.in/p/edA_nPmJ https://x.com/AlejandroSMO/status/2115854938886803921

Penny dreadfuls for today's tech panics fit so well. Great concept.