Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• 2-second rule

  A loose principle that a user should not need to wait more than 2 second…

• clown-invariant research design

  an empirical study designed to be sufficiently robust, both in the ef…

• keyboard focus

  the area or widget on the screen that is currently responsive to keybo…

• dingbat

  (graphic design) a small typographic element that can be placed amon…

• associative links

  links that go to related information in a freeform association, such…

• line-oriented interface

  A user interface based on a user editing individual lines of text at a t…

• hacker ethic

  the value system espoused by an ill-defined collection of hackers, p…

• task analysis

  a set of methods for decomposing people’s tasks in order to und…