A form of typographic ornament used by a type designer for decorative purposes. Common ligatures are based on joining two or more letters together, often with figures embedded in the design
A sequence of user actions on a website. In UX design, it's important to note the order in which users interact with your site so you can redesign it for optimum usability.
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.
The designation of a set of character encoding styles for glyphs that are not capital letters.
CMYK is a colour space created for the printing process. It stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (black).
The study of how colours are related to one another. It is about how we see colour, mix and modify it (according to our needs), and put colour together to achieve the desired mood or atmosphere.
Also known as an Ishikawa diagram, is a widely used technique in project management. The diagram provides a means of evaluating the cause-and-effect relationship between the various activities necessary for completing a project by visualising all activities in the project as bones that interconnect on an anterior and posterior spine, with causality flowing from one to another.
Also called trim marks, are markings on artwork that tells the printer where to cut the page.
A name, symbol or other distinctive feature that distinguishes one business's product from another's, often associated with a logo, design, slogan and other items.
A type of user interface design carefully crafted to trick people into doing things they might not want to do.
An example of a typical user and the actions they take. Typically these are written in the form of a story.