Table A: Unexpected Interactions "Responsiveness and the Flexible Grid" Embracing ‘the ebb and flow of things’ is a long recognized aesthetic ideal of interface design, especially as a distinction between working with paper print, and harnessing the affordances of digital and networked technologies (Allsopp 2000). Indeed, as Alan Liu observed in his landmark text The Laws of Cool (2004), the pursuit of modernist typographic and layout principles on the web are frequently frustrated by ‘antidesign’ forces as technical agencies chaotically intermingle and clash across digital infrastructures. ‘Cool’ sites, ultimately, are those that can accommodate the ‘spatiotemporal disturbances’ of the medium through techniques that advance “the façade of a whole harmonium” (227). + INFO: www.gredits.org/interfacepolitics/es/responsiveness-and-the-flexible-grid-2/

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