Test 2 CH 6 & 8

____ is a character or letterform created for the purpose of communicating written information through printing or electronic means.

Type

What term is used metaphorically to describe a feature that prevents users from getting lost in an interface.

Breadcrumbs

_____ _____ use touch screens as combined input and output devices and let users directly interact with what is displayed on screen by using one or more fingers.

Touch Interfaces

____ uniformly adjusts letter spacing across a range of selected text.

Tracking

The term _____ implies letters, but it also applies to other characters, such as punctuation, symbols, and numbers.

Letterform

Movable type was first invented in

Asia

Most designers suggest limiting the number of typefaces in a design to ___

2

Our book defines _____ as the reciprocal communication between the media and the users facilitated by various technology features; in other words, it's the user and the media communicating with one another.

Interactivity

historians often credit _____ ____ as the starting point of the modern printing era

Johannes Gutenberg

____ selectively varies the amount of space between a single pair of letters

Kerning

____ typefaces have letterforms based on roman counterparts, while Italic typefaces have features that emulate handwritten forms

Oblique

A ____ is a unit of measurement used to define the vertical height of a typeface.

Point

____ web design is an approach to web design whereby sites automatically conform to the user's device and screen size across a wide range of digital devices' carousel.

Responsive

___ are small marks located on the ends of a main character stroke.

Serifs

____ are decorative accents added to the end of a stroke

Serifs

accepts input and generate output in the form of web pages, are probably the most widely used GUIs.

Web User Interface (WUIs),

Times New Roman, for instance, is a _____ , a set of specifications that make the characters look a certain way, no matter the size or medium, but PostScript 12-point Times New Roman is a Font

Typeface

_____ is the art of designing and arranging type

Typography

As we have noted before, ______ is the measure of people's experience with a user interface.

Usability

In the field of information technology, a ____ ____ is any system that supports human-machine interaction (HMI) or human-computer interaction (HCI).

User Interface

In readability testing for the Web, _____ consistently scores high marks and is one of the most popular screen fonts used for body copy on the Web

Verdana

The rise of _____ ___ relies on technology progresses in machine learning of natural language and statistical data-mining techniques.

Voice Interfaces

Adding a _____ ____ is one of the easiest things you can do to add interest and depth to text objects and backgrounds

Drop Shadow

______ is used to allow a user to make a single choice from among mutually exclusive options.

Dropdown List

The term ___ refers to the digital or physical means of creating or displaying that typeface in a particular style and size.

Font

GUI stands for

Graphical User Interface

A ____ ____ ____ includes elements of windows, icons, menus, buttons, and scrolling bars

Graphical User Interface Usually

a ___ is a matrix of evenly spaced vertical and horizontal lines that are superimposed on top of the design window

Grid

A _____ is a reduced-size version of a larger image

Thumbnail

When you use _____, as you move text close to a gridline, it snaps into place.

Snapping

WUI means

Web User Interface

the terms ____ and _____ refer to the process of lining up objects or text uniformly along their tops, bottoms, sides, or middles.

Alignment/Justification

____ is a technique used in raster (bitmap) editing to smooth out the edges of type

Anti-Aliasing

In a row of type, the bottom edge of each character's main body rests on an imaginary plane called the ____

Baseline

The transition between the thick and thin areas of a stroke is called

Contrast

What is the measure of how fast a user can perform tasks after learning how to use the interface?

Learnability

____ refers to a typeface's characteristics and can change depending on font size.

Legibility

The wireless controller on a Wii system is an example of what type interface?

Motion Tracking Interfaces

_______ is an interface component or technique that gives users an idea about how much information to anticipate on a site and makes it easier for user to navigate through multiple screens of information

Pagination

____ _____ is a website technology that allows the foreground and background elements of a webpage to move at different speeds during vertical scrolling of the page

Parallax Scrolling

_____ refers to how easy text is to read in context, not as isolated letters, and depends on a variety of factors, including typeface characteristics such as italics, font size, style, letter spacing, line spacing, alignment, background, capitalization choices, and contrast.

Readability

While typeface can convey attitude, emotion, and personality, it's the ___ that communicates ideas and information

Text

____ is the visual representation of intellectual thought as expressed through a human language system.

Text

Of the Transitional Typefaces, ____ ___ ___ is one of the most ubiquitous and well-known

Times New Roman