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Progressive Disclosure - An interaction design pattern that sequences information and actions across several screens to reduce complexity and cognitive load.
Hick's Law - Decision time increases logarithmically with the number of choices available.
Core Web Vitals - Google's metrics measuring page load performance, interactivity, and visual stability of web pages.
Search Intent - The underlying goal or purpose behind a user's search query.
Offline-First - A software design approach where applications are built to work fully without an internet connection, treating connectivity as an enhancement rather than a requirement.
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.
Customer Journey - The complete experience a customer has with your brand, from first awareness to post-purchase.
Product Design - The process of imagining, creating, and iterating products that solve users' problems while balancing desirability, viability, and feasibility.
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.
Information Scent - The perceived likelihood that a path (link, button, navigation element) will lead to the desired information, based on cues like labels, descriptions, and context.
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.
Serendipity in Design - Intentionally designing systems with features that enable random discovery and unexpected connections, fostering creativity and insight.
Customer Effort Score (CES) - A metric measuring how much effort customers must expend to interact with your company.
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.
Consent Management - The process of obtaining, recording, and respecting user permission for data collection and use.
Customer Onboarding - The process of guiding new customers to successfully use and derive value from your product.
Jobs To Be Done - A framework for understanding customer needs by focusing on the 'job' they're trying to accomplish, not the product they're buying.
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.
Golden Path - The optimal, recommended, and well-supported way to accomplish a task or achieve a goal.
Desire Path - An unplanned trail formed by people or animals taking the path they naturally prefer, rather than the designed route.
Usability - The degree to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction.
Dark Patterns - Deceptive user interface designs that trick users into unintended actions, such as subscribing, purchasing, or sharing data they didn't mean to.
Skeuomorphism - A design approach where digital elements mimic their real-world counterparts, making interfaces more intuitive and familiar.
Learnability - A usability attribute that measures how easily new users can accomplish basic tasks the first time they encounter an interface.
Onboarding - The process of introducing new users to a product, helping them understand its value and learn to use it effectively.
Bounce Rate - The percentage of visitors who leave a website after viewing only one page.
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.
LATCH - Five universal ways to organize information: Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, Hierarchy.
GOMS Model - A cognitive task analysis framework that predicts how long expert users take to complete computer tasks by analyzing Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules.
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.
Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design - Shneiderman's foundational principles for creating effective and user-friendly interfaces.
Human-Computer Interaction - An interdisciplinary field studying how people interact with computers and designing technologies that enable effective, efficient, and satisfying interactions.
Nielsen's 10 Usability Heuristics - Ten general principles for interaction design developed by Jakob Nielsen, used as guidelines for evaluating user interface usability.
Call to Action (CTA) - A prompt that encourages the audience to take a specific, immediate action.
Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) - The smallest product version that creates genuine customer delight and emotional connection.
Friction - Barriers or obstacles that slow down or prevent actions, which can be intentionally added or removed to influence behavior.

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