Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• white space

  (graphic design) the use of blank space on a page to help reinforce the…

• task-based help

  or “task-oriented help system”; instructions for use…

• economy of expression

  a design principle advocating that characteristics of a visual disp…

• prototyping theatre

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

• information design

  a broad term for the design tasks of deciding how to structure, select…

• human-machine interface

  HMI or MMI (man-machine interface); the portion of an electro-mecha…

• balloon help

  a help facility in Mac OS that displays a speech balloon over widgets a…

• rapid prototyping

  quickly generating mockups of what a system will look like. Rapid pro…