Fox Sports’ website breaks what didn’t need fixing

Fox Sports had the easiest place to catch up on non-live college football scores. One page had nothing but the week’s scores, in a simple text format, listing which team was the home team.

Until now.

Welcome to the all-new FOXSports.com (Nov. 20)

Things look a bit different. New layout. New scoring products. New device look and feel. All wrapped in a fully responsive architecture that puts mobile at the heart of our design. … Everything filters through a mobile-first lens.

I don’t WANT something that “puts mobile at the heart of design.” I am on a computer. I want a WEBSITE. I don’t want gobs of pictures with few links visible at any given time.

How in the world does dividing up the scores into Top 25 or conferences-only, in a layout that takes up more space and graphics and code per item, more user-friendly? For any device?

Web designers, please stop sacrificing desktop usability for a “mobile experience”.

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