A small, non-preview image that accompanies a larger image. It provides an immediate sense of the content while not necessarily revealing it in its entire scope.
A unit for defining the size of a font. It's not a distance; this unit's measurement is only relative to the typeface's design.
A psychological phenomenon that states that people tend to remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
A graphic element that has a definite length and direction. Examples of vectors would be straight lines, edges, or curves.
CMYK is a colour space created for the printing process. It stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (black).
A tool that allows user experience designers, or people who design products and websites with consumers in mind, to track where users look on the screen. Eye-tracking can measure users’ attention and the duration of time they spend on different areas of a website. With this information, websites can create user experience solutions such as buttons with varying colours designed to catch the eye.
A low-fidelity representation of a user interface design.
A UX design technique to explore and map out a service, product, or system through physical navigation, often completed at the start of a design process to provide designers with an understanding of how users will navigate the system. In addition, body-storming can be used in development to test functionality or measure ease of use.
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.
An abbreviation for Portable Document Format. The PDF format was originally developed to share documents between different operating systems in the late 1980s. Any text document, image or page layout can be saved as a PDF file that includes all of the font information needed to display it without losing quality.
A colour that appears to be pure and lacks any lightness (or tone) or saturation.