A decoration technique used primarily on paper, metal, and some plastics in which ink or another printing medium is pressed into the material's surface to create a three-dimensional effect.
A theory in psychology that discusses the general idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's based on a human need to search for stability and meaning, which leads to organic movements towards wholeness. Gestalt Theory assumes there are inherent flaws in how we perceive forms and patterns, and it holds that this innate tendency transforms into an active process of looking for order in reality.
Generally used when a page has so much content that it would be impossibly long to load the entire page at once. Infinite scroll consists of an auto-generated list of items that constantly loads new items as they load off the bottom of the screen.
A graphical representation of the user on a device, used to represent various users in different contexts. It can be a photo, image or drawing.
A unit of measurement that equals 1/6 of an inch, or 1/72 of a foot.
A measure of the ease of understanding text.
An iconic design that is made up of two or three letters.
The surface quality of an element.
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 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.
Usually the first functional form of a new product, created to test a concept or prove out some aspects of design.