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Web Design

Adobe XD

A UI/UX application used to design and prototype mobile, desktop, and web applications. Adobe XD is a part of the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

UI Design

User interface (UI) design is the process of making interfaces in software or computerized devices with a focus on looks or style.

UX Design

User experience design is the process of manipulating user behavior through usability, usefulness, and desirability provided in the interaction with a product.

Advanced Design System

Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by Keysight EEsof EDA, a division of Keysight Technologies.

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Systems software for editing video and dynamic images, compositing, animation and creating various effects. It is widely used in the processing of footage, in the creation of commercials, music videos, in the production of animation, titles for artistic and television films, etc.

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a now-discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems.

Adobe Illustrator

A program for creating vector graphics. Unlike bitmap images in which information is stored in a grid of individual points, Illustrator uses mathematical equations when creating forms. This allows you to change the size of vector images without loss in resolution.

Adobe Photoshop

The most powerful graphics editor to date. The possibilities of this program cover the whole spectrum of various operations related to graphics, namely: photo processing, creating your own drawings, creating posters, collages, covers for different products, creating postcards and much more.

Alignment

The position that describes graphical object's relative positions. It makes designs visually more appealing and simplifies for users scanning over a page. A structuring principle how to organize images, words and other pieces on a single page.

Avocode

A cloud based software that allows to export and share Photoshop and Sketch designs for iOS/Android apps. Avocode acts as a bridge between designers and developers, runs on Mac, Windows or Linux. 

Axure RP

A prototyping tool for web designers, used to create user flows and sitemaps, click-through wireframes, and robust, fully interactive prototypes. 

Balsamiq

A wireframing and mockup tool that allows to sketch and share user interface mockups for web, desktop and mobile apps. 

Contextual inquiry

Contextual inquiry (CI) is a user-centered design research method, part of the contextual design methodology. A contextual inquiry interview is usually structured as an approximately two-hour, one-on-one interaction in which the researcher watches the user in the course of the user's normal activities and discusses those activities with the user.

Design layout

Design layout is the organization of text and images on a web page, poster, book or two-dimensional page.

Design system

A design system is a set of principles that dictate the visual identity of a brand's digital presence. It establishes a framework of guidelines for maintaining a consistent look and feel across various platforms and devices. A design system is a library of reusable UI components. Within it, you can define elements like buttons, text components, and other elements that are anticipated to be used repeatedly in the design. This streamlines the design process significantly.

Digital design

Digital design refers to what is created and produced for viewing on a screen. Digital designs can include content such as multimedia presentations, social media collateral, email and web ads, digital billboards and signage, pitch decks, 3D modeling, and 2D animation.

Dreamweaver

An application web designers and developers use to create websites and applications for use across multiple targets including browsers, devices, and tablets.

Experience Design

Experience design (XD) is the practice of designing products, processes, services, events, omnichannel journeys, and environments with a focus placed on the quality of the user experience and culturally relevant solutions.

Figma

A design and prototyping tool with collaboration features. Figma offers pixel-perfect previews, screen size adaptation and team libraries. It allows developers to inspect and copy CSS code, link UI components and communicate with other team members directly on a design.

Flinto

A prototyping tool mainly for iOS app designs. Allows to create an interactive prototype that can be shared and installed on-device, helps to create more convincing, engaging experiences. 

Flat UI

A style of interface design emphasizing minimum use of stylistic elements that gives the illusion of 3 dimensions (such as the use of drop shadows, gradients or textures) and is focused on a minimalist use of simple elements, typography and flat colors.

Framer

A cross-platform tool for designing websites, prototyping user interfaces and collaborating with other team members. Framer is suitable for responsive design, includes an SVG-based vector editor and other features, such as exporting CSS values.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is an n open-source cross-platform graphics editor that edite, draw, convert images and execute other various tasks.

Google Web Designer

Google Web Designer is an advanced web application that lets you design and build HTML5 advertisements and other web content using an integrated visual and code interface.

GUI

A type of UI that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons or other visual indicators, rather than using only text via the command line.

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