New Brief - Responsive Design

Responsive Design (RWD)
Responsive design is an approach that suggests design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The practice consists of a mix of flexible grids and layouts, images and an intelligent use of CSS media queries. As the user switches from their laptop to iPad, the website should automatically switch to accommodate for resolution, image size and scripting abilities. In other words, the website should have the technology to automatically respond to the user’s preferences. This would eliminate the need for a different design and development phase for each new gadget on the market.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/web-designer/what-is-the-difference-between-responsive-vs-adaptive-web-design/#.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/

Adaptive Design (AWD)
It essentially utilizes many of the components of progressive enhancement (PE) as a way to define the set of design methods that focus on the user and not the browser. Using apredefined set of layout sizes based on device screen size along with CSS and JavaScript, the AWD approach adapts to the detected device. 

Adaptive web design also encompasses a range of other strategies which, when combined with responsive design techniques, enables you to deliver the best possible User experience to the widest possible audience. This means that numerous functionalities and environmental factors can be catered for in the most User friendly way, depending on the particular device being used to access your website.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_web_design

Connectivity
Refers to a program or device's ability to link with other programs and devices. For example, a program that can import data from a wide variety of other programs and can export data in many different formats is said to have good connectivity. On the other hand, computers that have difficulty linking into a network (many laptop computers, for example) have poor connectivity.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/connectivity.html

Data Visualization
Data visualization or data visualisation is the creation and study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Visualization

Dynamic Data
On a dynamic Web page, the user can make requests (often through a form) for data contained in a database on the server that will be assembled on the fly according to what is requested. For example the user might want to find out information about a theatrical performance, such as theater locations and ticket availability for particular dates. When the user selects these options, the request is relayed to the server using an intermediary, such as an Active Server Page (ASP) script embedded in the page's HTML. The intermediary tells the server what information to return.
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/dynamic-and-static

Usability
Usability means making products and systems easier to use, and matching them more closely to user needs and requirements.
http://www.usabilitynet.org/management/b_what.htm