Tittle

The typographic term for the dot above the letters 'i' and 'j'.

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Clickstream

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.

Affordance

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.

Small Caps

Small uppercase letters, generally about half as tall as regular uppercase letters.

Masthead

The name, logo, and other identifying information at the top of a newspaper or magazine publication.

Triadic Colours

A triad is a group of three colours that are equally spaced on the colour wheel.

Resolution

The measure of a device or computer system's ability to capture fine detail. A higher number of pixels can provide more details and finer images on the screen.

Complementary Colours

Colours that directly across the colour wheel, like blue and orange. When you put these colours next to each other, they make a great contrast together. Complementary colours are often found in nature.

Colour Palette

A specific set of colours, usually with a limited number of values, chosen to suit the needs of a particular design.

Crop Marks

Also called trim marks, are markings on artwork that tells the printer where to cut the page.

Hamburger Menu

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.

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