A design language developed by Google. The goal of Material Design was to create fluid, natural movement for users on any platform they happen to be using.
Black, white, and all the values of shades in between.
Affordances describe a relationship between the environment and an animate object, classified as either positive or negative.
Items, such as a car that leads to movement, have a positive affordance. Things like stairs that lead upwards have a negative affordance because they will not allow for any other form of movement other than up or down if used accordingly.
All available space (line-height) between two consecutive lines of text; this measurement should be adjusted for either ascenders or descenders. In hand typesetting, leading referred to thin strips of lead inserted by hand between lines of type in the composing stick to increase vertical distance.
The use of design features that are shaped to resemble a familiar object or thing in order to facilitate user interaction.
The art and science of arranging information so that it's intuitive to find, easy to navigate, presents a cohesive design, meets accessibility guidelines, looks attractive on any device or screen size and ultimately drives behaviour change.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.
A sample of the target audience for which a product or service is intended.
A type of design that features the strokes running predominantly from the upper left to the lower right.
It can also be used in reference to a type of lettering, typically for advertisements, to be read in either direction. It is also used to help the reader navigate through and around the advertisement.
The space that an item has around it.
In typography, a bowl is a curved shape used to control the area of white space.