Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• forgiveness

  a design principle that says people should be able to recover from the…

• sociogram

  a diagram that shows interaction patterns between people; for insta…

• assistant / wizard

  a special type of dialog box that takes a user through a step-by-step p…

• anticipation

  in animation, preparation before an action so that the user has some f…

• help desk

  an organization providing user support for computer and software us…

• ubiquitous computing

  computers everywhere: the idea that computers are getting smaller a…

• caret

  a small triangle used as an insertion-point indicator in text entry.

• click

  the press and release of a button, typically on a mouse, to select or ac…