Category: User Experience (UX)

Horizontal Slider

Sometimes referred to as a horizontal scroll, this interactive web design feature displays content in a horizontal row with arrows to the left and right, allowing for easy navigation and space-efficient design. A horizontal slider is popular with content-heavy websites such as public libraries to display book covers.

Interaction Cost

This is the price people pay to view content. For example, the time it takes for a page to load, or to scroll down the page or click on links before they reach the content they are searching for. Understanding these factors is a critical part of determining what should go on a page which …

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Journey Driven Design

Design that revolves around the journey of a user, meaning the paths they take and progression of their actions that culminate in reaching their objectives.

Mapping

Techniques to organize and visualize content on your site, allowing you to understand how pieces of content relate to each other and the goals and preferences of your users.

Material Design

Material Design pertains to a design language that was developed in 2014 by Google. It makes use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows.

Multilingual

This term refers to a site that can be displayed in multiple languages.

Navigation

This term refers to ones ability to move throughout the web, whether it be on a browser such as Google, or within a website itself. Navigation is important in the user’s experience. A site that is difficult to navigate will be offputting to the user.

Navigation Menu

The website navigation pertains to the menu at the top of a website. For instance the “About” section of a website might have sub-pages such as “Overview, History, and Team”. These links comprise the navigation menu for the “About” section.

On-Site Search

Upon typing in a keyword string of your choosing, the website on which you are searching will return a list of results that contain and/or have content that is related to your search terms. Also commonly referred to as site search and internal site search.

Parallax Scrolling

In web design, the manner through which the background images move more slowly than the foreground images that are used.