A psychological phenomenon that states that people tend to remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
A style of typeface that uses a width-to-height ratio of 1:1.
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.
The act of gathering qualitative data about a person's thoughts and feelings related to a product.
The intensity of a color relative to its own brightness. Colours are said to be saturated when they have a strong hue and high intensity.
A measure of the ease of understanding text.
A way of researching users and understanding their behaviour in the context of the product, helping designers in understanding users' needs and expectations and what motivates them to act.
Designers can use this type of research to understand better their users and what kinds of experiences they are looking for. And this will allow the designers better empathize with their users, making them a part of the learning cycle.
A type of font that comes pre-installed in an operating system.
A small picture or design that represents an idea, function, or some other type of visual concept. For example, in computer graphics and web development, an icon is a pictorial representation of a program or file type.
The setting on a camera's lens which controls how much light comes into the camera. Aperture settings can usually be set to F-stop values ranging from F1.4-F22. The higher the aperture value, the smaller the opening is, and vice versa, which affects the depth of field in photos and how much light reaches and illuminates a subject or scene in a photo.
A non-functional first draft of a design.