Comments on: Are we in a new era of web design? What do we call it?

By: Andrew Mudrov

Andrew Mudrov — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:29:31 +0000

Looking at the first picture in this article, maybe, Eye Design? (Could be iDesign but you know…).
Eye sounds like I in Intrinsic.

By: Rasmus Schultz

Rasmus Schultz — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:08:09 +0000

It’s still responsive, isn’t it?

You have new features that allow your design to respond to new things, and you have new tools to do it, sure.

But you describe it yourself as “an evolution and extension of responsive web design”, which is exactly what it is.

It’s also the philosophy of the web itself, the living standard – we generally don’t replace or “2.0” the features of the web; we evolve them.

People aren’t going to ask, “is your website NEW responsive”, and asking of your website is “intrinsic” certainly doesn’t make any sense. They will probably still ask, “is your website responsive”, and you can describe how.

It already didn’t mean just one thing, so that hasn’t really changed.

Who are we helping by renaming it now?

By: Kai

Kai — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:04:12 +0000

I’d propose: Fluid Design – coming from fluid typography but also encompassing the flexible nature of recent, not only container queries and intrinsic options, but also live changes like prefers-color-scheme. Everything is in motion, like a fluid :)

By: Kilian Valkhof

Kilian Valkhof — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:48:15 +0000

I’ve been calling it Responsive websites (like in the talk I gave at Halfstack last year) since it’s no longer just the design that’s responsive, but with prefers-reduced-motion and other user preference queries, it really is the entire site that now responds to the user.

By: Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Morten Rand-Hendriksen — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:21:01 +0000

“Intrinsic design” is the most descriptive, and communicates the true nature of the design modality. The challenge with the name is the term “intrinsic” is not immediately understandable, but then “responsive” also wasn’t immediately understandable until it became part of web nomenclature.

We need a name for this post- or neo- or next-stage responsive world, and “Intrinsic” comes from one of the most authoritative people in the community. “The New Responsive” is understandable today, but anchors our thinking in the past when we need to develop new mental models.

To the question of how we establish new nomenclature for our community, the answer is it happens when influencers start using it as if it’s already an established term. One such influencer would be CSS Tricks, so the power is in your hands Chris!

By: Leif Niemczik

Leif Niemczik — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 01:01:10 +0000

Since these features are about customization or reacting to changes “the adaption era” seems fitting to me. JS is adapting to it’s role, CSS grows in complex functionality year by year and people adopt this new ever changing ruleset more and more into their websites. Everything and everyone adapts… Except e-mails, that stuff cost me 2 weeks of work recently.

By: Christopher Kirk-Nielsen

Christopher Kirk-Nielsen — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:30:17 +0000

If we follow some musical genres such as “Nu Metal”, maybe “Web Nu-point-oh”.

“Nu Web” sounds weird, also because “nu” means “naked” in French and I would say we’re seeing rather dressed up stuff nowadays, but if we cycle back to stripped bare websites in the future, that might just make enough sense.

In the end, it doesn’t even matter: Intrinsic is ideal.