The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.
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.
Text that flows from right to left and is the default reading direction of a page with its content aligned on the right margin.
The width and height of a document, after having been cut down to size from a larger sheet.
The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.
PPI stands for Point Per Inch. PPI is the number of dots per inch in a printer's resolution or the number of pixels per inch in a monitor's screen resolution. The more PPI, the higher your image quality will be as it becomes sharper and clearer. The lower your PPI, the lower your image quality will be, and the more likely you'll see individual pixels in an image.
Also known as the divine proportion, is a number, or a ratio, sometimes approximated by phi and widely considered aesthetically pleasing. The golden ratio has been featured in nature and art in many ways, including hexagonal honeycombs, the human body, and mathematics. More frequently, it is used in design and digital art to represent a path (or steps) one can take to achieve a particular look or result. In art, an artist may produce something (a painting or drawing, for example) using the golden ratio as a basis for its composition.
The path of any movement, mark, shape, or other feature of a design. It can be the border of an element or even the tight edge of a text box, etc.
A style of typeface that uses a width-to-height ratio of 1:1.
The feeling or mood created by a design.
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.