We talked about Responsive design very briefly in Chapter 1, Evolution of Web Design; if you remember, it describes a new way of designing for the desktop, and also for the mobile interface. It is basically proposing to use the same content, but a different layout for the design on each screen.
To be more precise, a Responsive website shows content based on the browser space. If you open a Responsive website on a desktop and change the size of the browser window, it will dynamically fit the window size and arrange itself.
The concept of Responsive design was first coined by Ethan Marcotte when he wrote an introductory article about the notion of Responsive architectural design, whereby a room/space automatically adjusts to the number of people within it.
“Recently, an emergent discipline called “Responsive architecture” has begun asking how physical spaces can respond to the presence of people passing through them. Through a combination of embedded robotics and tensile materials...