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Second-System Effect - The tendency for an engineer's second system to be over-engineered and bloated, as the designer includes all the features and ideas left out of the first system.
Visual Communication - The transmission of ideas and information through visual forms including images, typography, color, symbols, and spatial arrangement.
Schema - A formal structure that defines the organization, constraints, and relationships of data within a system.
Interaction Design - The practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services with a focus on behavior—how users interact with them through actions, responses, feedback, and flows.
Threat Modeling - A structured approach to identifying, quantifying, and addressing security threats to a system.
Landing Page - A standalone web page designed specifically to convert visitors toward a single goal.
Product Design - The process of imagining, creating, and iterating products that solve users' problems while balancing desirability, viability, and feasibility.
UX Design - The practice of designing products that provide meaningful, relevant, and enjoyable experiences to users throughout their entire interaction journey.
Information Design - The practice of presenting information in a way that enables efficient and effective understanding by combining principles from graphic design, cognitive psychology, and user experience.
UI Design - The design of user interfaces for software and machines, focusing on visual elements, layouts, and interactive components that users directly interact with.
Signifier - A perceptual cue or signal that communicates to users where and how actions can be performed, distinguishing from affordances which are the actual possibilities for action.
Essential vs Accidental Complexity - Essential complexity is the difficulty inherent in the problem being solved, while accidental complexity is the difficulty introduced by our tools, languages, and processes that can be reduced or eliminated.
Affordances - The perceived and actual properties of an object that suggest how it can be used—a door handle affords pulling, a button affords pressing.
Brand Identity - The visible elements of a brand that distinguish it in consumers' minds—logo, colors, design, and messaging.
Poka-Yoke - A mistake-proofing mechanism built into a process or design that prevents errors from occurring or makes them immediately obvious.
Design Rationale - The documentation of the reasons behind design decisions, capturing not just what was designed but why those choices were made and what alternatives were considered.
Accessibility - The practice of designing products, services, and environments that can be used by people with the widest range of abilities, including those with disabilities.
Conceptual Integrity - The principle that a system's design should reflect a unified, coherent set of ideas as if conceived by a single mind, which Brooks considered the most important consideration in system design.
Dark Patterns - Deceptive user interface designs that trick users into unintended actions, such as subscribing, purchasing, or sharing data they didn't mean to.
Learnability - A usability attribute that measures how easily new users can accomplish basic tasks the first time they encounter an interface.
Instructional Design - The systematic process of creating effective learning experiences and educational materials through analysis, design, development, and evaluation.
Wireframing - Creating simplified visual guides that represent the skeletal structure of a user interface, focusing on layout and functionality rather than visual design.
Visual Consistency - Maintaining uniform design elements and patterns across a product or system to create predictability and ease of use.
Gestalt Psychology - A psychological approach emphasizing that humans perceive whole patterns and configurations rather than individual components, summarized by the principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Human-Computer Interaction - An interdisciplinary field studying how people interact with computers and designing technologies that enable effective, efficient, and satisfying interactions.

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