At work, My boss tells us to build 'desktop-first' for responsive design. Is he wrong?

I am a junior web designer, but because we're a small company I also do the front end dev as well. My boss is also a designer.

I've been reading up on responsive webdesign more, since we spend so long dealing with different device issues for clients. I've realised that we build 'desktop-first' because we build the site fine for desktop, then make it responsive for devices using media queries that target certain devices.

They obviously don't work properly on all devices but if they don't say anything, we just leave it. I been learning that we should build mobile first, using break points to determine when the sites design actually 'breaks'.

I thought this was now the industry-standard way to do it? It seems like we spend so much time targeting a million different devices with their own layouts or either convincing clients it can't be done.

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