Text that flows from left to right and is the default reading direction of a page with its content aligned on the left margin.
A philosophy that companies should take a user-centred approach to design, making sure they focus on the customer's needs and not on their company's needs. UX designers need to figure out what users want before building something and not after. They must also ask themselves if including "features" will provide any value to the product or service.
A well-known UI element in computer applications. It's an expandable menu of context-specific commands typically launched from the application's main menu.
The distance from the baseline to the top of a capital letter, number, or other upper-case glyphs.
A process that involves assigning people to work on different parts of the design and making sure that they focus on one area at a time. This method is an excellent way to release products more quickly and with higher quality.
The most common types of agile methods are Scrum, Kanban, XP and Agile Modeling. It can often be difficult for companies to make the switch because it requires significant changes in how product development occurs.
A graphical representation of the density and distribution of data points. Denser regions in the image are interpreted as the data points' frequency, while lower densities are interpreted as fewer data points in that area.
Heatmaps show you where people worldwide are clicking on content to help you understand how people interact with your website designs and content.
A portion of an image where the remainder is discarded.
The intensity of a color relative to its own brightness. Colours are said to be saturated when they have a strong hue and high intensity.
The setting on a camera's lens which controls how much light comes into the camera. Aperture settings can usually be set to F-stop values ranging from F1.4-F22. The higher the aperture value, the smaller the opening is, and vice versa, which affects the depth of field in photos and how much light reaches and illuminates a subject or scene in a photo.
The last line of a paragraph following the rest, or a single line in a paragraph that is out of place with the rest.
A design language developed by Google. The goal of Material Design was to create fluid, natural movement for users on any platform they happen to be using.