Starting on the smallest screen forces the right decisions. Why we design for thumbs first and widen from there.
Designing for a small screen first is not about shrinking a desktop layout. It is about deciding what matters most when there is only room for one thing.
On a phone you cannot hide a weak hierarchy behind whitespace. The content that earns the top of the screen is the content that matters.
As the screen grows we add columns and context. We never have to claw features back out of a layout that was too crowded to begin with.
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