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UX/UI Vocabulary

Responsive Web Design (RWD)

RWD provides an optimal viewing experience across platforms and devices. The content and layout of a website should efficiently adapt to the sizes and technical abilities of the device it is opened on.

Information Architecture (IA)

The organizing of information, including site hierarchies, web content, labeling schemes and navigation. IA makes it easy for people to find, understand and manage information.

3-click Rule

The theory that users will abandon a website if they are unable to complete their task within 3 mouse clicks.

User Interface (UI) or Graphical User Interface (GUI)

What the user sees. This can be a set of commands or menus through which a user communicates with a program. It is also the space where interactions between humans and machines occurs.

User Experience (UX)

A broad term that includes several disciplines that study the effect of design on the ease of use and level of satisfaction with a product, site or system. The term UX was invented by Dr. Donald Norman, a cognitive scientist.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

An imaging application and language written in XML. The SVG interface offers a solution to the problem of sharing many sophisticated Web-based images and animations.

Accessibility

The measure of a web page’s usability by persons with one or more disabilities.