Hacking Disruptive Technologies for Responsive Web Design for Your Business
Ever wondered why horse-drawn carts were replaced by automobiles? Why wired telephone lines have become unpopular ever since mass availability of cell phones and smart phones? Why typewriters became a rare sight and a collector’s item after the introduction of Personal Computers?
Clayton M. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, named such technologies ‘disruptive innovations’ – scientific advancements and improvements that would eventually lead to disuse or abandonment of a previously common technique, implement, equipment or machinery. A disruptive innovation is initially simple and straightforward, and often doesn’t satisfy customer needs. It takes years of refining, restructuring, remodeling, redesigning, and in cases such as computers, compacting the original contrivance before it is ready to go public.
Taking to the fashion, disruptive innovations in web designing has certainly made the process simpler, easier, and faster with a broad range of tools and applications that allow for wider use of creative technique. It has also made customization easier, so that websites can adapt to the perpetually evolving world of computer and mobile technologies.
Small businesses and their incessant demand for individuality and diversity in their design and outlook have pushed web designers to constantly revamp the tools of their trade. The following infographic demonstrates just how crucial are up-and-coming trends in web design is for businesses and web designers, and how you can benefit from using the right disruptive web design tools .
Which of these disruptive technologies have you used in your company? What effects did they have? Share your experience!
