Privacy Zuckering
A dark pattern where the user is tricked into publicly sharing more information about themselves than they intended. Designers must avoid this deceptive practice and ensure clear, consensual data sharing to respect user privacy.
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Social Benchmarking
The practice of comparing one's performance, processes, or practices to those of peers or competitors to identify areas for improvement. Important for understanding relative performance and identifying best practices for improvement.
Customer Attrition
The loss of customers over a specific period, also known as customer churn. Important for understanding and addressing customer retention issues.
Accessibility
The design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities or specific needs. Crucial for creating inclusive products that can be used by everyone, including those with disabilities.
MoFu
Middle of Funnel (MoFu) is the stage in the sales funnel where leads are being nurtured and evaluated before becoming sales-ready. Crucial for converting leads into prospects and moving them closer to purchase.
Benchmarking
The practice of comparing performance metrics to industry bests or best practices from other companies. Essential for identifying performance gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Phenomenology
The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. Important for designing user experiences that are intuitive and empathetic.
Collaborative Filtering
A recommendation system technique that makes predictions about user interests based on preferences from many users. Essential for personalizing user experiences and improving recommendation accuracy.
Prospect
A potential customer who has shown interest in a product or service but has not yet made a purchase. Essential for identifying and targeting potential new customers.
Density Independence
The principle that ensures user interface elements maintain their size and proportion across different screen densities. Essential for creating a consistent user experience across various devices.
White Space
An area in a market or industry that is currently underserved or unaddressed, presenting opportunities for innovation and new business ventures. Important for identifying gaps in the market that can be filled with new products, services, or solutions.
Foot-in-the-Door Technique
A persuasion strategy that involves getting a person to agree to a small request to increase the likelihood of agreeing to a larger request later. Crucial for building user commitment and enhancing marketing and sales strategies.
Invariance
A key aspect of Gestalt psychology in which simple geometrical objects are recognized independent of rotation, translation, and scale. Crucial for understanding how users perceive and recognize patterns in design.
Sales Metrics
Data points that represent an individual's, team's, or company's performance in the sales process. Essential for tracking progress, identifying issues, and optimizing sales strategies.
Status Quo Bias
A cognitive bias that leads individuals to prefer things to remain the same rather than change, often resisting new options or changes. Crucial for understanding resistance to change and designing strategies to overcome it among users.
PESTEL Analysis
A strategic framework used to analyze the external macro-environmental factors affecting an organization: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal. Essential for strategic planning and understanding market dynamics.
How Might We
A brainstorming technique that frames problems as opportunities for innovation, starting with the phrase "How might we...?". Essential for fostering creativity and generating solutions during the design process.
Cohesive Experience
A user experience that feels consistent and unified across different elements and touchpoints. Crucial for ensuring a seamless and engaging user journey.
Denomination Effect
A cognitive bias where people are less likely to spend large denominations of money compared to an equivalent amount in smaller denominations. Useful for designers to understand consumer behavior and design pricing strategies that consider spending biases.
Anticipatory Design
A design approach that predicts user needs and actions to deliver proactive and personalized experiences. Crucial for creating seamless and intuitive user experiences.
SEM
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a digital marketing strategy used to increase a website's visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) through paid advertising. Essential for driving targeted traffic and improving online presence.
Brand Image
The perception of a brand in the minds of consumers, shaped by interactions and experiences with the brand. Crucial for understanding consumer perceptions and guiding brand strategy.
Prioritization Matrix
A decision-making tool that helps prioritize tasks or projects based on specific criteria, such as impact and effort. Essential for effective project management and resource allocation.
Incumbent
An established company or market leader that holds a significant market share and has a strong presence in the industry. Important for understanding the dynamics between established players and new entrants in a market.
Relationship Intelligence
The use of data and insights to understand and manage relationships with customers and prospects. Crucial for enhancing customer engagement and building stronger relationships.
Opportunity Cost Neglect
A cognitive bias where individuals overlook or underestimate the cost of opportunities they forego when making decisions. Crucial for understanding user decision-making behavior and designing systems that highlight opportunity costs.
Trigger
A prompt or cue that initiates a behavior or response, often used in behavior design to encourage specific actions. Crucial for designing systems that effectively prompt desired user behaviors.
Product Mix Strategy
The approach a company takes to manage and market its portfolio of products, ensuring each product supports the overall business strategy. Important for optimizing the range of products offered to maximize market reach and profitability.
Introspection Illusion
A cognitive bias where people wrongly believe they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable. Important for designing experiences that account for discrepancies between user self-perception and actual behavior.
Pessimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes. Important for understanding user risk perception and designing systems that address irrational pessimism.
Cognitive Theory
The study of mental processes such as perception, memory, reasoning, and problem-solving. Important for designing interfaces that align with how users process information and make decisions.
Lead Management
The process of tracking and managing potential customers from initial contact through to sale. Important for ensuring that leads are properly engaged and converted.
Anomaly Detection
The process of identifying unusual patterns or outliers in data that do not conform to expected behavior. Crucial for detecting fraud, errors, or other significant deviations in various contexts.
Team Topology
The organizational structure and dynamics of teams within a company, designed to enhance collaboration and delivery. Important for optimizing team performance and project outcomes.
Continuity
A Gestalt principle that describes the tendency of the human visual system to perceive lines or patterns that follow a smooth, continuous path rather than a disjointed or abrupt one. Essential for creating designs that guide the user's eye smoothly and logically.
Reification
A key aspect of Gestalt psychology describing the mind's ability to fill in gaps to create a whole object from incomplete elements. Crucial for designing creative and engaging visuals that are both pleasing to the eye and cleverly satisfying to the mind.
Mapping
The process of creating visual representations of data or information to enhance understanding and decision-making. Essential for organizing information and making complex data accessible.
Disruptive Innovation
Innovation that creates a new market and value network, eventually disrupting and displacing established market-leading products or services. Crucial for understanding how new entrants can challenge established players and transform industries.
Operational Risk
The risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems. Important for identifying and mitigating potential operational threats.
Intertemporal Choice
The study of how people make choices about what and how much to do at various points in time, often involving trade-offs between costs and benefits occurring at different times. Crucial for designing systems that account for delayed gratification and long-term planning.
a11y
Numeronym for the word "Accessibility" (A + 11 letters + Y), designing for ease of use by all people, ensuring equal access to those with disabilities. Crucial for ensuring inclusivity and compliance with accessibility standards.
SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software distribution model where applications are hosted by a service provider and accessed over the Internet. Crucial for enabling scalable and cost-effective software solutions for users.
Belief Perseverance
The tendency to cling to one's beliefs even in the face of contradictory evidence. Important for understanding resistance to change and designing interventions that address this bias.
State-Dependent Memory
A phenomenon where people are more likely to remember information when they are in the same state of consciousness as when they learned it. Important for understanding how context affects memory recall and designing experiences that facilitate better retention.
Horn Effect
A cognitive bias where one negative trait of a person or thing influences the perception of other traits. Important for designing experiences that counteract or mitigate negative biases in user perception.
Anecdotal Fallacy
A logical fallacy where anecdotal evidence is used to make a broad generalization. Crucial for improving critical thinking and avoiding misleading conclusions.
Self Service Portal
A web-based interface that allows customers to find information and perform tasks without needing assistance from a customer service representative. Essential for improving customer experience and reducing support costs.
Brand Guidelines
A set of rules and standards that define how a brand should be represented across all media and platforms. Crucial for ensuring brand consistency and maintaining brand integrity.
Inclusive Design
A design philosophy that considers the diverse needs and abilities of all users, aiming to create products that are accessible to everyone. Crucial for ensuring that products are usable and accessible by the widest possible audience.
Digital Wellness
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.
Avatar
A graphical representation of a user or their character in digital environments. Crucial for personalizing user interactions and enhancing engagement.
Operating Model
A framework that defines how an organization operates across various functions to deliver value to customers and achieve business objectives. Crucial for aligning organizational functions and processes with strategic goals.
Focused Navigation
Providing clear, concise, and relevant navigation options to help users find what they need quickly. Crucial for improving user experience and efficiency in digital products.
CAB
Customer Advisory Board (CAB) is a group of key customers who provide feedback and insights to a company to help guide its strategic decisions. This group is crucial for aligning products and services with customer needs and expectations.
Modality Effect
The phenomenon where people remember information better when it is presented through multiple sensory modalities rather than a single modality. Crucial for enhancing memory retention and understanding through multimodal presentations.
Belief Bias
The tendency to judge the strength of arguments based on the believability of their conclusions rather than the logical strength of the arguments. Important for understanding cognitive biases that affect decision-making and user perceptions.
Layer Cake Pattern
A reading pattern where users scan a page in horizontal stripes, focusing on headings and subheadings. Important for structuring content in a way that facilitates quick scanning and information retrieval.
Deindividuation
A psychological state where individuals lose their sense of self-awareness and personal responsibility in groups, often leading to atypical behavior. Crucial for understanding group dynamics and designing experiences that promote positive group interactions.
Anchor Pricing
A pricing strategy where a high-priced option is introduced first to set a reference point, making other options seem more attractive in comparison. Important for shaping user perceptions of value and creating a benchmark for other pricing options.
Faceted Search
A search system that allows users to narrow down search results by applying multiple filters based on different attributes or categories. Essential for improving user search experience and efficiency.