Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• translucency

  the property of an interface whose method of use is obvious once gener…

• feedback

  a reaction to a behavior that has the potential to influence the origi…

• typeahead

  a feature for allowing users to continue typing without waiting for t…

• luddite

  a person who is anti-technology, even violently so; a person who is a c…

• indicator

  something that displays information without being able to directly…

• prototyping theatre

  a puppet show approach to prototyping and user testing. User interfa…

• zooming user interface

  ZUI; a user interface where the user can zoom in and out to varying leve…

• HCI

  human-computer interaction. The study of how people work with compu…