Soft Return

Also called a line break, when you want to keep the text in one paragraph and not follow it with an airy space.

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Link

A prominent design feature of web applications. Links can be used to navigate websites, provide shortcuts to content, or change views within a web application. These links allow for ease of access and save time when users need to find information or use services from other domain names.

Dark Pattern

A type of user interface design carefully crafted to trick people into doing things they might not want to do.

Heuristic Evaluation

A usability assessment method that is used to evaluate a design against established usability principles or heuristics. It is based on the idea that designers can use their experience to find areas of poor design without extensive user testing.

Asymmetry

The degree of difference between the two sides of an object or system.

Font Colour

Also known as text colour, is a visible attribute of text determined by the combination of text and background colour.

User Interviews

The act of gathering qualitative data about a person's thoughts and feelings related to a product.

Wireframe

A low-fidelity representation of a user interface design.

Empathy

A type of understanding that is achieved by taking the perspective of another individual. Different people's perspectives often have different needs and values, so empathy can help you understand those differences.

Pagination

A technique used to sequentially present items in a list or other data set that are too long to display at one time.

Hero Image

The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.

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