The designation of a set of character encoding styles for glyphs that are not capital letters.
The space that an item has around it.
The use of design features that are shaped to resemble a familiar object or thing in order to facilitate user interaction.
A technique for understanding people’s experience of a product or service. Participants are asked to keep daily records of their experience using the product, and these records are taken into consideration when designing the design.
Usually the first functional form of a new product, created to test a concept or prove out some aspects of design.
The distance between the baseline and the mean line of lowercase letters in a typeface. Nearby descenders (such as j) and ascenders (such as q) usually extend slightly below or above this height.
A letter, symbol, or another alphabet unit.
A type of design that features the strokes running predominantly from the upper left to the lower right.
It can also be used in reference to a type of lettering, typically for advertisements, to be read in either direction. It is also used to help the reader navigate through and around the advertisement.
A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. Classes should be used when designing for multiple instances. For example, if you want all <h1> tags in the website to look blue, then you could use the class="blue-text" attribute.
Small uppercase letters, generally about half as tall as regular uppercase letters.
A basic design tool that helps designers create and communicate ideas.