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 digital image captured by a digital camera or scanner that has not been processed in any way by the camera software.
The use of design features that are shaped to resemble a familiar object or thing in order to facilitate user interaction.
A set of symbols or "characters" including letters, numbers and various other symbols.
The measure of a device or computer system's ability to capture fine detail. A higher number of pixels can provide more details and finer images on the screen.
A design language developed by Google. The goal of Material Design was to create fluid, natural movement for users on any platform they happen to be using.
Text that is used to fill in a gap in a document.
The meeting point where two lines cross.
A concept used in systems design to describe the negative consequences of making seemingly innocuous design changes. Shorthand for a product's delayed but inevitable need to be reworked due to earlier, seemingly trivial decisions not having been fully thought through in the original release.
Designers incur this "debt" by making quick and easy choices that save time in the present but cause more complex problems later on down the road when it becomes necessary to change or add something.
The relative lightness or darkness of a hue.
The Pantone Matching System is a colour-matching system for printing inks. It is a proprietary colour-matching system that was developed so that when an artist picks PMS colour or swatch, they can be confident in knowing what colours would be produced no matter the application.