Design Vocab
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- Adaptivity
- The ability to customize for each member of the audience to meet their specific needs
- Animated GIF
- a graphic image on a Web page that moves
- Applet
- a little application.
- Application Program
- any program designed to perform a specific function directly for the user
- Blog
- a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption
- Breadcrumb
- On a Web site, a breadcrumb trail is a navigation tool that allows a user to see where the current page is in relation to the Web site's hierarchy
- Browser
- an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.
- CBT
- Computer-based training (CBT) is any course of instruction whose primary means of delivery is a computer
- Communications
- The process of sharing thoughts with someone.
- Control
- The ability for the user to decide what they see and do and say - and how.
- Creativity
- Giving the audience to do something or to make something at your site.
- CSS
- A cascading style sheet (CSS) is a Web page derived from multiple sources with a defined order of precedence where the definitions of any style element conflict.
- Display Modes
- The term display mode refers to the characteristics of a computer display, in particular the maximum number of colors and the maximum image resolution
- Dithering
- the attempt by a computer program to approximate a color from a mixture of other colors when the required color is not available.
- DTV
- Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital rather than conventional analog methods
- Dynamic
- capable of action and/or change
- Dynamic HTML
- Dynamic HTML is a collective term for a combination of new Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags and options, that will let you create Web pages more animated and more responsive to user interaction than previous versions of HTML.
- Fair Use
- a legal concept that allows the reproduction of copyrighted material for certain purposes without obtaining permission and without paying a fee or royalty.
- Feedback
- User responses or opinions.
- Fibonacci sequence
- a set of numbers that starts with a one or a zero, followed by a one, and proceeds based on the rule that each number (called a Fibonacci number) is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers.
- Flash
- used to create vector graphics-based animation programs with full-screen navigation interfaces, graphic illustrations, and simple interactivity in an antialiased, resizable file format that is small enough to stream across a normal modem connection
- GUI
- a graphical (rather than purely textual) user interface to a computer
- HCI
- HCI (human-computer interaction) is the study of how people interact with computers and to what extent computers are or are not developed for successful interaction with human beings.
- Hexadecimal
- it describes a numbering system containing 16 sequential numbers as base units (including 0) before adding a new position for the next number.
- HTML
- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page
- Hypermedia
- a term derived from hypertext, extends the notion of the hypertext link to include links among any set of multimedia objects, including sound, motion video, and virtual reality
- Information Architecture
- In technical writing, information architecture is the set of ideas about how all information in a given context should be treated philosophically and, in a general way, how it should be organized.
- Interactivity
- In computers, interactivity is the dialog that occurs between a human being (or possibly another live creature) and a computer program.
- Jump Page
- a Web page that is made to appear temporarily in order to capture the user's attention as a promotion or to gather user information in a survey
- Mash-up
- Web page or application that integrates complementary elements from two or more sources
- Meme
- An idea passed down on from one human generation to another. The cultural equivalent of a gene, the basic element of biological inheritance.
- Microsite
- a separately promoted part of a larger Web site
- Multimedia
- Multimedia is typically used to mean the combination of text, sound, and/or motion video.
- New Media
- a catch-all term for all forms of electronic communication that have appeared or will appear since the original mainly text-and-static picture forms of online communication
- Pixel
- the basic unit of programmable color on a computer display or in a computer image
- Plug-in
- programs that can easily be installed and used as part of your Web browser
- Productivity
- Giving the audience to do something or to make something at your site
- Resolution
- the number of pixels contained on a display monitor, expressed in terms of the number of pixels on the horizontal axis and the number on the vertical axis
- RGB
- RGB (red, green, and blue) refers to a system for representing the colors to be used on a computer display.
- RSS
- RSS (RDF Site Summary, formerly called Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a method of describing news or other Web content that is available for "feeding" (distribution or syndication) from an online publisher to Web users
- Section 508
- an amendment to the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973, is a federal law mandating that all electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used by the federal government be accessible to people with disabilities.
- Site Map
- a visual or textually organized model of a Web site's content that allows the users to navigate through the site to find the information they are looking for, just as a traditional geographical map helps people find places they are looking for in the real
- Social bookmarking
- a user-defined taxonomy system for bookmarks
- Stickiness
- anything about a Web site that encourages a visitor to stay longer
- Storyboard
- a graphic, sequential depiction of a narrative
- Streaming Media
- sound (audio) and pictures (video) that are transmitted on the Internet in a streaming or continuous fashion, using data packets
- Style sheets
- A term extended from print publishing to online media, a style sheet is a definition of a document's appearance
- Thumbnail
- a term used by graphic designers and photographers for a small image representation of a larger image, usually intended to make it easier and faster to look at or manage a group of larger images
- True Color
- specification of the color of a pixel on a display screen using a 24-bit value, which allows the possibility of up to 16,777,216 possible colors
- Usability
- the measure of a product's potential to accomplish the goals of the user
- vlog
- A vlog (or video blog) is a blog that contains video content
- Web 2.0
- the popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and bookmark sharing
- Web Page
- On the World Wide Web, a page is a file notated with the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
- White Paper
- an article that states an organization's position or philosophy about a social, political, or other subject, or a not-too-detailed technical explanation of an architecture, framework, or product technology
- Wiki
- a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site.