A phrase that is used in reference to someone's work. The term pixel-perfect can be used to describe something as being flawless without any errors.
A philosophy that companies should take a user-centred approach to design, making sure they focus on the customer's needs and not on their company's needs. UX designers need to figure out what users want before building something and not after. They must also ask themselves if including "features" will provide any value to the product or service.
Also known as text colour, is a visible attribute of text determined by the combination of text and background colour.
A basic design tool that helps designers create and communicate ideas.
A non-functional first draft of a design.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are a language for describing the look and formatting of HTML elements in a webpage.
A well-known cognitive psychologist's principle that says that the time it takes to make a decision varies logarithmically according to the number of choices. As more options are presented, more decision time is required due to the mental work of comparing and contrasting each potential option.
Colours on the opposite side of the colour wheel to warm colours. Typically bluish in tone, such as blue or green.
A well-known UI element in computer applications. It's an expandable menu of context-specific commands typically launched from the application's main menu.
The surface quality of an element.
The process of arranging type to make written material readable. The arrangement of type involves decisions about individual letters and words (e.g. line spacing, letter spacing, and word spacing) and more significant page layout decisions (e.g., margins, headline position on the page).