A unit of measurement that equals 1/6 of an inch, or 1/72 of a foot.
A discipline that analyses the usability of an application by assessing its interaction design and user experience.
A print that the printer receives to monitor the progress of production. Proofing is a matter of looking at the print to ensure that it has been printed correctly and that the colours are rendered accurately.
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.
A printing press that uses movable type and punches to make impressions on paper.
A portion of an image where the remainder is discarded.
A unit of measurement that equals 1/6 of an inch, or 1/72 of a foot.
A type of font that comes pre-installed in an operating system.
Scope creep is when the scope of a project starts to grow without any agreement on how it's going to be paid for. Creep happens because items and features are tacked on top of the original scope of work agreed upon in the original contract.
A phenomenon in psychology in which recalling items in a list imposes an order on the list, with the first and last items remembered best. That is, if given a list of words to remember like "dog apple tree", people will tend to recall "dog" as being at the beginning of the sentence and "tree" as being at the end of it.
A quick and rough sketch of what you are about to work on. Good for getting the ideas out of your head and onto the page while you're still in that creative phase.