Interaction Design

The design of the interaction between users and products. Interaction design is focused on creating products that enable the user to achieve their objective(s) in the best way possible.

More terms you might want to know

Kerning

The process of adjusting the spacing between individual letters to improve or avoid particular visual distortions.

Breadcrumb Navigation

Typically used on the internet or web pages to provide easily accessible navigation for users. Typically, the breadcrumb navigation appears along the top of a webpage or at other locations on a webpage so that users can know where they are on a site quickly and efficiently.

Tone

The feeling or mood created by a design.

Hero Image

The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.

User Interviews

The act of gathering qualitative data about a person's thoughts and feelings related to a product.

Stock Photo

A photograph that is purchased and licensed for exclusive use by an individual or business.

Hex Code

A way of expressing colours on digital media. To specify a hex code, you need to consider the three primary colours: red, green and blue. The hex code is always six characters long and looks like this: #RRGGBB and their values range from 00 to FF.

Right-aligned

Text that flows from right to left and is the default reading direction of a page with its content aligned on the right margin.

PNG Image

A PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file is a bitmap image format that has been designed to store images with an alpha channel. This format is primarily used for transparency so that it can be placed over other graphics in many design applications.

Link

A prominent design feature of web applications. Links can be used to navigate websites, provide shortcuts to content, or change views within a web application. These links allow for ease of access and save time when users need to find information or use services from other domain names.

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