RGB

Red, green, and blue. These colours can be used to form a wide variety of colours in different devices such as computer monitors and televisions.

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Legibility

How well or poorly something can be read.

UX Audit

A discipline that analyses the usability of an application by assessing its interaction design and user experience.

Golden Ratio

Also known as the divine proportion, is a number, or a ratio, sometimes approximated by phi and widely considered aesthetically pleasing. The golden ratio has been featured in nature and art in many ways, including hexagonal honeycombs, the human body, and mathematics. More frequently, it is used in design and digital art to represent a path (or steps) one can take to achieve a particular look or result. In art, an artist may produce something (a painting or drawing, for example) using the golden ratio as a basis for its composition.

Ball Terminal

In handwriting and calligraphy, ball terminals are the end of a stroke that resembles a ball. They are also used in some typefaces like cursive or old-style typefaces.

Sketching

A basic design tool that helps designers create and communicate ideas.

A/B Testing

A statistical method in which two variants of the same activity are compared against each other (typically with several variants), one at a time, and the most effective variant is selected.

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.

User Interviews

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

RAW Image

A digital image captured by a digital camera or scanner that has not been processed in any way by the camera software.

Thumbnail

A small, non-preview image that accompanies a larger image. It provides an immediate sense of the content while not necessarily revealing it in its entire scope.

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