Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• indicator

  something that displays information without being able to directly…

• responsiveness

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

• 80/20 rule

  A principle for setting priorities: users will use 20% of the feature…

• high-fidelity prototype

  a prototype that is quite close to the final product, with lots of deta…

• contextual inquiry

  a structured technique for gathering field data through interviewi…

• pluggable look and feel architecture

  an application or system architecture that allows applications to r…

• user acceptance testing

  UAT; a method for determining how well users have adopted a new techno…

• capture error

  a type of slip (a kind of error) where a more frequent and more practice…