Boost Your Productivity in Web Design Reviews with Pixefy’s Inspect Tool
When building responsive websites, one of the most time-consuming tasks is repeatedly resizing your browser window to check how your design looks on different devices. After resizing, you often need to inspect elements again, which adds unnecessary steps to your workflow. For designers and developers, this constant back-and-forth slows down productivity and can lead to missed details.
Our tool solves this problem by allowing you to see multiple responsive layouts (panes) side by side in a single browser tab. The ability to measure distance, inspect elements and view computed styles all in one place simplifies your design and testing process, saving you both time and effort.
Key Features and Benefits
1. View Responsive Layouts Side by Side
One of the standout features of our tool is the ability to view multiple device layouts side by side in a single browser tab. Instead of manually resizing your window and re-inspecting every time, you can check how your website responds to different screen sizes — desktop, tablet, and mobile — all at once. This side-by-side view gives you a complete picture of your site’s responsiveness without the hassle of adjusting your browser repeatedly.
This feature makes it easier to spot design inconsistencies and quickly address them by eliminating the need to toggle between window sizes. Whether it’s the text that overflows on smaller screens or spacing issues that only appear on mobile, you’ll be able to see and fix them in no time.
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2. Simultaneous Element Inspection and Measurement
With our tool, you don’t just get to see different layouts — you can inspect and measure the distance between elements across all device views simultaneously. This means you can hover over any element in one layout and instantly view its size, margin, padding, and spacing between adjacent elements for each device view.
Our tool is handy for ensuring design consistency across devices. If an image or a button looks perfectly aligned on the desktop version but not on mobile, you can instantly measure and compare the differences without re-inspecting the element after resizing. Everything is visible at a glance, making maintaining a pixel-perfect layout across all screens easier.
3. Compact Computed Styles for Quick Analysis
Another advantage of our tool is how it presents computed styles. Rather than overwhelming you with every possible style property, it displays only the most relevant ones, such as width, height, margins, padding, font size, and colours. This compact view lets you quickly assess fundamental properties and make necessary adjustments without being bogged down by excessive information.
4. Easy-to-Use Panes for Efficient Workflow
The tool features an intuitive pane interface that displays your site’s layout for different devices, side by side, within the same tab. Switching between views is instant, allowing you to interact with each site page, inspect elements, and measure distances without navigating away. This setup ensures that you don’t miss any detail when checking how your site responds to different screen sizes.
This makes it especially easy to catch and correct issues with spacing, element alignment, or other design inconsistencies that can occur when switching between devices like in the old way.
Why Side-by-Side Responsive Testing Saves Time
1. No More Resizing and Re-Inspecting:
Traditional responsive testing involves resizing your browser window to view how the site adapts, then re-inspecting elements once the size is adjusted. This process is repetitive and time-consuming. Our tool lets you see all key layouts at once, side by side, so there’s no need to resize or repeat inspections.
2. Catch Problems Early and Fix Them Faster:
With all layouts visible simultaneously, you can easily compare how elements behave across devices. This allows you to catch and fix potential issues, such as spacing or alignment problems, before they become bigger headaches later.
3. Improved Design Consistency:
By seeing different layouts in one tab, you can ensure consistency across devices. This is especially important for responsive design, where elements often shift or resize between screen sizes. With simultaneous views and measurements, you can fine-tune each layout and ensure a consistent, cohesive user experience.
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4. Streamlined Workflow:
With compact computed styles and side-by-side layout views, everything you need for responsive design testing is presented in one place. This drastically reduces the time spent navigating between tools and tabs or even resizing the window itself, boosting your productivity.
Conclusion
Our inspection tool offers a game-changing solution for web designers and developers focused on creating flawless, responsive websites. By allowing you to view and compare multiple device layouts side by side, inspect and measure elements, and see only the most relevant computed styles, we eliminate the inefficiencies of traditional responsive testing.
With everything housed within a single browser tab, our tool streamlines your workflow, reduces the time spent on repetitive tasks, and ensures your website delivers a consistent user experience across all devices. Say goodbye to constant resizing and re-inspecting, and let our tool handle the heavy lifting for you.
Try it out today and experience a faster, smarter way to check and optimize your responsive designs.
