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Understanding UI/UX Acronyms
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A/B
A/B Testing - a method of comparing two versions of a webpage or app against each other to determine which one performs better.
UX
User Experience - encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products.
HCI
Human-Computer Interaction - the study of how people interact with computers and to design technologies that let humans interact with computers in novel ways.
IA
Information Architecture - the art and science of organizing and labeling websites, intranets, online communities, and software to support usability and findability.
IxD
Interaction Design - the design of the interaction between users and products, aiming to create products that enable the user to achieve their objectives in the best way possible.
UI
User Interface - the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.
CTA
Call To Action - a prompt on a website that tells the user to take some specified action.
UXD
User Experience Design - the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and the product.
GUI
Graphical User Interface - a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators.
HCD
Human-Centered Design - an approach that starts with the people you’re designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor-made to suit their needs.
HCI
Human-Computer Interaction - a design that ensures easy, enjoyable, and effective interaction between users and computers.
AJAX
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - a set of web development techniques using many web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications.
FAB
Floating Action Button - a circular button that floats above the UI and is “anchored” to a single promoted action.
LTE
Long-Term Evolution - a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA technologies.
VUI
Voice User Interface - allows the user to interact with a system through voice or speech commands.
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics - an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation.
UCD
User-Centered Design - a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of the end users of a product, service, or process are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process.
PRD
Product Requirements Document - a document containing all the requirements to a certain product. It is written to allow people to understand what a product should do.
CTC
Click-Through Conversion- a ratio showing how often people who click on your ad end up clicking through on your continuous CTA.
WWW
World Wide Web - an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet.
SaaS
Software as a Service - a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet.
MVP
Minimum Viable Product - a development technique in which a new product is developed with sufficient features to satisfy early adopters. The final, complete set of features is only designed and developed after considering feedback from the product's initial users.
XML
Extensible Markup Language - a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets - a stylesheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML.
UXR
User Experience Research - the systematic investigation of users and their requirements, in order to add context and insight into the process of designing the user experience.
API
Application Programming Interface - a set of subroutine definitions, communication protocols, and tools for building software and applications.
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