Card Sorting

A UX design technique in which you divide your users into groups, show them cards with different names for unrelated objects and ask them to categorise them.

More terms you might want to know

Asymmetry

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

Warm Colours

Colours on the same side of the colour wheel as red, such as pink, orange and yellow.

Typesetting

The process of arranging type to make written material readable. The arrangement of type involves decisions about individual letters and words (e.g. line spacing, letter spacing, and word spacing) and more significant page layout decisions (e.g., margins, headline position on the page).

Cool Colours

Colours on the opposite side of the colour wheel to warm colours. Typically bluish in tone, such as blue or green.

Greyscale / Grayscale

Black, white, and all the values of shades in between.

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.

Stem

The part of a letter, usually a vertical line, that rise above the x-height.

Ellipsis

Also known as a suspension point, is a series of dots (…) that is used either as a substitute for some text that has been omitted from a sentence or when the author does not wish to pause in their writing.

Triadic Colours

A triad is a group of three colours that are equally spaced on the colour wheel.

Web Page Elements

A textual or graphical component in a web page.

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