Pilcrow

Also called a paragraph mark, a paragraph sign or section marker, is a typographical character for separating paragraphs. It looks like a "¶".

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Pagination

A technique used to sequentially present items in a list or other data set that are too long to display at one time.

Thumbnail Sketch

A quick and rough sketch of what you are about to work on. Good for getting the ideas out of your head and onto the page while you're still in that creative phase.

Stem

The part of a letter, usually a vertical line, that rise above the x-height.

Class

A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. Classes should be used when designing for multiple instances. For example, if you want all <h1> tags in the website to look blue, then you could use the class="blue-text" attribute.

Persona

A sample of the target audience for which a product or service is intended.

Responsive Design

The process of developing a product or design system that can be altered to fit different device and interaction contexts.

Eye-Tracking

A tool that allows user experience designers, or people who design products and websites with consumers in mind, to track where users look on the screen. Eye-tracking can measure users’ attention and the duration of time they spend on different areas of a website. With this information, websites can create user experience solutions such as buttons with varying colours designed to catch the eye.

CSS

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are a language for describing the look and formatting of HTML elements in a webpage.

Pica

A unit of measurement that equals 1/6 of an inch, or 1/72 of a foot.

System Font

A type of font that comes pre-installed in an operating system.

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