A file format that supports both static and animated images. It is a popular file format on the internet and social media due to its wide colour support, portability, and animating capabilities.
The area of negative space around and between elements in a design.
A graphic element that has a definite length and direction. Examples of vectors would be straight lines, edges, or curves.
Designers and developers use font styles to denote differences in meaning between two or more words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or blocks of text. Typical font styles in CSS and web development are normal, italic, oblique and inherit.
The design of the interaction between users and products. Interaction design is focused on creating products that enable the user to achieve their objective(s) in the best way possible.
Colours on the opposite side of the colour wheel to warm colours. Typically bluish in tone, such as blue or green.
A way of researching users and understanding their behaviour in the context of the product, helping designers in understanding users' needs and expectations and what motivates them to act.
Designers can use this type of research to understand better their users and what kinds of experiences they are looking for. And this will allow the designers better empathize with their users, making them a part of the learning cycle.
A type of font designed to imitate handwriting.
The placement or otherwise of a thing in relation to other things. In design, proximity may be considered as the distance between two items in space or their relative location to each other.
Also known as text colour, is a visible attribute of text determined by the combination of text and background colour.
The designation of a set of character encoding styles for glyphs that are not capital letters.