Design Glossary

Collection of best practices to improve your design according to human behavior principles or their biases

Survey is crucial in project development. No matter what your business is, the environment and users’ inquires should be explored first. Here you will find terms, of research tools in UX.

Knowing basic rules of UI will assist in building a modern and clear interface. The category includes principles of general composition, text placement and marketing.

Measurement is the only way to estimate the business effectiveness objectively. The metric scores indicate customers’ painful points and illuminates rooms for improvement.

The category is about fundamental rules of designing interface animation. Follow them to create smart, helpful, and clear animation pieces for your interface.

The category contains basic terms of SD. Going through the terms, you will learn the fundamental principles of service design, its elements, methods and techniques.

The category contains definitions of methods, allowing collecting users’ opinions and feelings about an existing product or a potential service.

Here you will find a set of design rules, starting from issues of traditional composition to special terms of UI. Grids, gutters, paddings and other definitions essential for designing a working UI.

Here you can learn more about IxD — how it is built up, what elements it includes, what the interconnections with UX and UI are, etc.

In CX, there are several types of experience a user might gain. Understanding the distinguishing features of them helps in building a better customer experience inside your business.

The data starts to speak for itself if the analysis is done well. Learn about existing techniques and approaches to collecting and processing information in UX.

We arranged information about kinds of grids into a separated category to let you explore all variations of this great compositional instrument and possibilities you gain, using a particular type of it.

CX proposes a set of approaches to organizing a business. Learn more about each of them to choose the most appropriate for your product.

UX designing of a product can be centered to various starting points. Depending on business specific, one chooses best suiting to users’ needs and team capabilities.

Each of the members of the design team should use the same names for all spread UI elements and stay aware of their basic appearance. It facilitates work and cooperation with developers.

The category contains terminology related to the production process in UX. Knowing these terms facilitates understanding of UX working stages and form efficient workflow.

The category describes rules of typography, coming out from printing, and remaining fair for modern UI design.

Testing is an integral part of the UX project design. Learning how users interact with a new interface or an MVP, the difficulties they face, illuminates the path of potential growth.

The section contains terms of traditional color theory, and introduces you to special terminology of web colors — its structure and logical connecitons.

Here we collected terminology related to layout structures. You will find terms, describing how to arrange a particular type of information on a web page, following principles of modern UI design.

Creating a UI implies an additional forming of environment and accompanying resources. To give you a broader view of it, we gathered terms, illustrating a UI ecosystem and its elements.