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Responsive Design

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Responsive Design is an approach to web design that makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes by using flexible grids, layouts and images.

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Accessibility

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Accessibility in UI design means ensuring that products and services are usable by people with various disabilities, often by complying with standards like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

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Heuristic Evaluation

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Heuristic Evaluation is a usability inspection method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface design.

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Fitts's Law

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Fitts's Law is a predictive model of human movement, stating that the time required to move to a target area is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and the width of the target.

T=a+blog2(DW+1)T = a + b \cdot log_2(\frac{D}{W} + 1)
where T is the average time taken to complete the movement, D is the distance to the center of the target, W is the width of the target, and a and b are constants that can be determined empirically.

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Usability

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Usability is the ease with which users can effectively and efficiently achieve their goals using a user interface.

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Affordance

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Affordance refers to the design aspect of an object that suggests how it should be used, providing cues to its operation and function.

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Information Architecture

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Information Architecture is the organization and structuring of content and information in a clear and logical way, to help users find information and complete tasks.

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Human Interface Guidelines

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Human Interface Guidelines are documents or manuals that provide specific recommendations for software design to create a consistent and intuitive user interface.

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Touch Target

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Touch Target refers to the area of an interface element that responds to touch interactions from the user, which should be large enough to interact with comfortably.

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User Experience (UX)

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User Experience encompasses all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products, focusing on designing products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences.

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Breadcrumb

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Breadcrumb is a navigational aid in user interfaces that shows users their current location within a hierarchy of pages or functions and provides a path back to each ancestor page the user navigated through.

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Modal Window

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A Modal Window is a graphical control element that disables the main window but keeps it visible, requiring users to interact with the modal window before returning to the parent application.

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Call to Action (CTA)

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A Call to Action is a prompt on a website or app that encourages users to take some specified action, typically presented in the form of a button or link.

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Wireframe

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A Wireframe is a simplified outline of a webpage or application that serves as a blueprint for the layout and functionality of the user interface.

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Flat Design

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Flat Design is a minimalistic design approach that emphasizes usability. It features clean, open space, crisp edges, bright colors, and two-dimensional illustrations.

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Skeuomorphism

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Skeuomorphism is a design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts, often used to make new designs look familiar to users.

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Hick’s Law

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Hick’s Law posits that the time it takes for a person to make a decision increases logarithmically with the number and complexity of choices.

T=blog2(n+1) T = b \cdot log_2(n + 1)
where T is the decision time, b is a constant representing the cognitive processing time, and n is the number of choices.

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Above the Fold

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Above the Fold refers to the portion of a web page that is visible in a browser window when the page first loads, before the user scrolls.

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Prototyping

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Prototyping in UI/UX design is the process of creating an early model of a product to test concepts and functionalities, paving the way for the development of a fully-functioning system.

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User-Centered Design (UCD)

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User-Centered Design is an iterative design process that focuses on the users and their needs in each phase of the design process.

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