A theory that describes how individuals pursue goals using either a promotion focus (seeking gains) or a prevention focus (avoiding losses). Crucial for designing motivation strategies and understanding user behavior in goal pursuit.
Design strategies aimed at preventing user errors before they occur. Crucial for enhancing usability and ensuring a smooth user experience.
A Japanese word meaning excessive strain on people or processes. Crucial for preventing burnout and maintaining sustainable work practices.
Know Your Customer (KYC) is a process used by businesses to verify the identity of their clients and assess potential risks of illegal intentions for the business relationship. Essential for preventing fraud, money laundering, and terrorist financing, particularly in financial services, while also ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and building trust with customers.
A term used to describe an organization focused on continuously shipping new features, often at the expense of quality, user experience, or business value. Crucial for recognizing and addressing the pitfalls of prioritizing quantity over quality in feature development.
Obstacles to effective communication that arise from differences in understanding the meanings of words and symbols used by the communicators. Crucial for designing clear and effective communication systems and avoiding misunderstandings.
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a software suite that combines tools like code editors, debuggers, and compilers. Essential for improving developer productivity and ensuring efficient and error-free coding practices.
Interference in the communication process caused by ambiguity in the meaning of words and phrases, leading to misunderstandings. Crucial for designing clear communication channels and reducing misunderstandings in user interactions.
An action in a user interface that, once performed, cannot be undone and typically involves deleting or removing content. Important for emphasizing the severity of the action and ensuring user confirmation to prevent accidental data loss.
A pop-up dialog that appears when a user attempts to leave a page or application, which can be used to prevent loss of progress or data, or to confirm user intent. While it can be used ethically to prevent data loss or confirm actions, designers must avoid using it to deceive, delay, block, or interfere with the user's intent, thus ensuring it does not become a dark pattern.
The pursuit of a healthy relationship with technology, balancing its use to enhance well-being without causing harm. Important for promoting healthy technology use and designing user experiences that support well-being.
The process by which a measure or metric comes to replace the underlying objective it is intended to represent, leading to distorted decision-making. Important for ensuring that metrics accurately reflect true objectives and designing systems that prevent metric manipulation.
Also known as feature creep, the continuous addition of new features to a product, often beyond the original scope, leading to project delays and resource strain. Important for managing project scope and ensuring timely delivery.
A dark pattern where advertisements are disguised as other types of content or navigation to trick users into clicking on them. Awareness of this tactic is crucial to maintain transparency and prevent misleading users with disguised content.
The Principle of Disclosure is an information architecture guideline that promotes revealing information progressively as users need it. Crucial for managing complexity and preventing information overload.
A dark pattern where a free trial ends and the user is automatically charged without warning. Designers should avoid this practice and ensure users are clearly informed about charges to maintain ethical standards.
The excessive addition of features in a product, often leading to complexity and reduced usability. Crucial for maintaining simplicity and usability in product design.
A dark pattern where additional costs are only revealed at the last step of the checkout process. It's essential to avoid this tactic and promote transparent pricing to build user trust.
A psychological phenomenon where the desire for harmony and conformity in a group results in irrational or dysfunctional decision-making. Crucial for recognizing and mitigating the risks of poor decision-making in teams.
A state of overthinking and indecision that prevents making a choice, often due to too many options or uncertainty. Important for designing interfaces that simplify decision-making processes for users.
Application Support Engineer (ASE) is a professional responsible for maintaining and supporting software applications, ensuring their availability and performance. Crucial for ensuring the reliability and user satisfaction of digital products through effective support and maintenance.
A cognitive bias that occurs when conclusions are drawn from a non-representative sample, focusing only on successful cases and ignoring failures. Crucial for making accurate assessments and designing systems that consider both successes and failures.
A product development methodology that emphasizes shaping work before starting it, fixing time and team size but leaving scope flexible to ensure high-quality outcomes. Crucial for managing product development efficiently and delivering high-quality results within constraints.
A design technique that involves showing only essential information initially, revealing additional details as needed to prevent information overload. Crucial for creating user-friendly interfaces that enhance usability and reduce cognitive load.
The phenomenon where having too many options leads to anxiety and difficulty making a decision, reducing overall satisfaction. Important for designing user experiences that balance choice and simplicity to enhance satisfaction.
A theory that suggests there is an optimal level of arousal for peak performance, and too much or too little arousal can negatively impact performance. Important for designing experiences that keep users engaged without overwhelming them.
A dark pattern where the user is required to do something in order to access certain functionality or information. Designers must avoid compulsory actions and provide optional choices to respect user autonomy.
A cognitive bias where people seek out more information than is needed to make a decision, often leading to analysis paralysis. Crucial for designing decision-making processes that avoid information overload for users.
A tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, used in data mining and machine learning for both classification and regression tasks. Valuable for creating interpretable models in digital product design and user behavior analysis.
The preferred version of a web page that search engines should index, used to avoid duplicate content issues and improve SEO. Essential for managing SEO and ensuring the correct indexing of web pages.
Numeronym for the term "10,000 Concurrent Clients", the challenge of optimizing network software to handle ten thousand simultaneous client connections. Important for ensuring scalability and performance in high-demand scenarios.
A dark pattern where users are shown a preview of content that is then gated behind a paywall or sign-up. It's crucial to avoid this misleading practice and be transparent about access requirements.
A bias that occurs when the sample chosen for a study or survey is not representative of the population being studied, affecting the validity of the results. Important for ensuring the accuracy and reliability of research findings and avoiding skewed data.
The Principle of Choices is an information architecture guideline that emphasizes providing users with meaningful options to navigate and interact with a system. Crucial for enhancing user experience by ensuring users can easily find what they need without being overwhelmed.
Actions, messages, or visuals that do not align with the established brand identity and values. Important for identifying and correcting deviations from brand standards.
A dark pattern where a process is made more difficult than it needs to be to discourage certain behavior. Recognizing the harm of this practice is important to design straightforward user processes.
Systematic errors in AI models that arise from the data or algorithms used, leading to poor outcomes. Important for ensuring fairness and accuracy in AI systems.
The percentage of times a keyword appears in a text relative to the total number of words, used to evaluate the relevance and optimization of a webpage for specific search terms. Important for optimizing content for search engines without overstuffing keywords.
A dark pattern where the user interface is manipulated in a way that prioritizes certain actions over others to benefit the company. It's crucial to avoid this tactic and design fair interfaces without manipulating user actions.