Mock-up

A non-functional first draft of a design.

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Letterpress

A printing press that uses movable type and punches to make impressions on paper.

Load More Scrolling

A design technique employed on websites and mobile apps that encourages users to scroll to view additional content.

Customer Experience

The sum of all experiences an individual has with a company or its delivery channels during their journey. From handling and registering a complaint to ordering new products, these interactions are monitored and analyzed at every touchpoint by frontline employees, developers, designers, and product managers for improvement opportunities.

Landing Page

A standalone web page with content intended to capture a visitor. Often, it has the same URL as the website's home page and is used in paid or sponsored search engine marketing (known more commonly as pay-per-click) advertising campaigns.

PSD File

A digital file created in Adobe's illustration and photo manipulation software Photoshop. PSD files are used to edit images, create graphics, art, icons, images, among a plethora of other things.

User Research

A field of study that aims to understand the user experience of a product or service. Conducting UX research includes interviewing, observing, and surveying users. Understanding the user experience is important because it helps designers understand how to design a better product that will be more appealing and usable for people.

Bowl

In typography, a bowl is a curved shape used to control the area of white space.

Cap Height

The distance from the baseline to the top of a capital letter, number, or other upper-case glyphs.

Close-Crop

Framing consisting of cutting off or obscuring most of the surrounding of a subject, removing distractions from the background and emphasising the subject.

Uppercase

Also known as caps, a type property that specifies that all letters in a body of text are capitalised.

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