A field of study that aims to understand the user experience of a product or service. Conducting UX research includes interviewing, observing, and surveying users. Understanding the user experience is important because it helps designers understand how to design a better product that will be more appealing and usable for people.
A type of user interface design carefully crafted to trick people into doing things they might not want to do.
JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Expert Group, an international standards body that sets standards for creating and handling compressed digital images. The JPEG file format was designed to balance good visual quality and small file size, typically through lossy compression. The JPEG file format is widely used as a means of compressing digital images, particularly those produced by digital cameras.
The typographic term for the dot above the letters 'i' and 'j'.
A digital image captured by a digital camera or scanner that has not been processed in any way by the camera software.
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.
A Shortcut is a computer function that performs a set of commands to save time. A Quick Key is a keyboard shortcut used to trigger an action.
A form of typographic ornament used by a type designer for decorative purposes. Common ligatures are based on joining two or more letters together, often with figures embedded in the design
A brief snippet taken from the text of an article.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.
A photograph that is purchased and licensed for exclusive use by an individual or business.