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Responsive Design

One design that reflows to fit any screen.

Definition

A single layout that adapts fluidly across viewport sizes using flexible grids, flexible media and media queries.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

One design that reflows to fit any screen.

Example

A card grid that goes from four columns to one as the window narrows, with no separate mobile site.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

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