Glossary

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• intuitive

  a term used loosely to refer to user interfaces that are easy to unders…

• responsiveness

  the degree to which a user perceives a system as reacting quickly to us…

• explicit destruction

  a design principle that suggests that anytime information is perman…

• surrogate users

  people used as a substitute or representative for users, in order to p…

• rough

  (graphic design) a rapidly-drawn sketch, larger and more detailed t…

• natural language search query

  a search that allows the user to enter the search query using natural l…

• ephemeral awareness

  information about others and their activities that changes quickly…

• logical input device

  a hardware-independent way of expressing the functionality of an in…