When talking about “responsive”, we should first distinguish the meaning of responsive and responsive web design. Usually, responsive website design means a website that is being adaptive to any device. When the size of the viewport changes, the size of the images, texts as well as layout of the website, can be adjusted to a comfortable ratio for the viewer. The website is able to respond to the browser so that no matter which device we are using, our laptop, our ipads or the mobile phones, the content is always clear, structural and easy to read. This is what we linked to in our mind when saying responsive. Nowadays, it becomes a praise to say a website is responsive. However, when we are really talking about “responsive”, we should not focus on the adaptive function of the website, but how the builder internalized the word “responsive”.

Responsive shows the way they are thinking when designing a website and the fluidity that it will be having. Responsive should not be perceived as an extra method to optimize a website, but the quality that it should have when it is created or published. Responsive makes the website be eligible and accessible world wide. Moreover, I think “responsive” should be a broader term instead of being limited to the quality of a website. The audience of “responsive” should be a large group rather than only making sense among developers. Users are the ones that can feel responsive directly but most of them benefit from it without knowing it. “Responsive” deserves to be acknowledged by people. Responsive websites should be universal and it will be a pity to see that websites that are being responsive are redundant. Websites have more opportunities to evolve into a better form. Being responsive is the choice that is close enough to our hand. In an era of globalization and living in a world that is being highly webified, we should mean more when saying responsive, more importantly, do more.