Retention
The ability of a product or service to keep users engaged and returning over time, often measured by metrics such as retention rate. Crucial for evaluating user loyalty and the long-term success of a product.
The ability of a product or service to keep users engaged and returning over time, often measured by metrics such as retention rate. Crucial for evaluating user loyalty and the long-term success of a product.
The process of evaluating a product by testing it with real users to gather feedback and identify usability issues. Essential for validating design decisions and ensuring the product meets user needs.
A psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person and the uniqueness of each individual, focusing on concepts such as self-actualization and personal growth. Crucial for understanding and designing experiences that cater to individual user needs and potential.
Customer Effort Score (CES) is a metric that measures how much effort customers have to put in to interact with a product or service. Crucial for identifying friction points and improving user experience in digital products.
A qualitative research method that studies people in their natural environments to understand their behaviors, cultures, and experiences. Crucial for gaining deep insights into user behaviors and contexts.
The use of natural language processing to identify and extract subjective information from text, determining the sentiment expressed. Crucial for understanding public opinion and customer feedback.
A usability test where users are shown a design for 5 seconds to measure recall and initial reactions. Important for designers to test how well key information and elements are conveyed quickly to users.
A framework for prioritizing product features based on their impact on customer satisfaction, classifying features into categories such as basic, performance, and delight. Crucial for understanding customer needs and prioritizing features that enhance satisfaction.
The belief in one's ability to create change through creativity, often leading to more innovative and effective problem-solving. Essential for fostering a mindset of innovation and creativity in design.
The process of distinguishing a product from its competitors through unique features, benefits, or branding to attract and retain customers. Crucial for creating a competitive advantage and capturing market share.
CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) measures how products or services provided by a company meet or exceed customer expectations. Essential for understanding customer needs and improving product offerings.
A design approach that divides a system into smaller parts or modules that can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged. Crucial for creating flexible, scalable, and maintainable systems.
The orchestration and optimization of design operations to improve efficiency, quality, and impact of the design function within an organization. Crucial for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of design teams.
A cognitive bias where individuals overestimate their ability to control impulsive behavior, leading to overexposure to temptations. Important for designing systems that help users manage self-control and avoid overexposure to temptations.
The combined efforts of humans and AI systems to achieve better outcomes than either could alone. Important for leveraging the strengths of both humans and AI in various tasks.
The risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems. Important for identifying and mitigating potential operational threats.
A framework for assessing and improving an organization's ethical practices in the development and deployment of AI. Important for ensuring that AI systems are developed responsibly and ethically.
A visual tool in agile project management that displays tasks to be done, in progress, and completed, often using columns and cards. Crucial for visualizing workflow and managing tasks efficiently.
The process of working together with others to generate creative ideas and solutions, leveraging diverse perspectives and skills. Essential for producing innovative and well-rounded design solutions.
Product Development is the process of bringing a new product to market or improving an existing one. Crucial for innovation, meeting customer needs, and maintaining a competitive edge.
A strategic research process that involves evaluating competitors' products, services, and market positions to identify opportunities and threats. Essential for informing product strategy, differentiating offerings, and gaining a competitive advantage in the market.
ModelOps (Model Operations) is a set of practices for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments. Crucial for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of AI systems throughout their lifecycle, bridging the gap between model development and operational implementation.
Representativeness is a heuristic in decision-making where individuals judge the probability of an event based on how much it resembles a typical case. Crucial for understanding biases in human judgment and improving decision-making processes.
A fictional representation of a user segment, created based on user research to guide design decisions and ensure the product meets the needs of its target audience. Crucial for keeping design efforts focused on user needs and preferences.
The mistaken belief that a person who has experienced success in a random event has a higher probability of further success in additional attempts. Crucial for understanding and designing around user decision-making biases.
Customer Experience Management (CEM) is the process of managing and improving the interactions and experiences customers have with a brand across all touchpoints. This process is essential for building strong customer relationships and enhancing brand loyalty.
The ability to deliver products or services in the most cost-effective manner without sacrificing quality. Key to reducing costs and improving profitability.
A cognitive bias where new evidence or knowledge is automatically rejected because it contradicts established norms or beliefs. Important for recognizing resistance to change and designing strategies to encourage openness to new ideas among designers.
A methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that emphasizes best practices for development, deployment, and scalability. Important for creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient digital products.
Methods and techniques used to overcome mental blocks that hinder creative thinking and problem-solving. Crucial for maintaining productivity and fostering innovation in design.
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is the integration of AI with the Internet of Things (IoT) to create smart systems that can learn and adapt. Crucial for developing advanced, intelligent products that offer enhanced user experiences and operational efficiencies.
A team structure focused on delivering value streams, often organized around a specific business capability or customer need. Crucial for enhancing delivery efficiency and aligning with business goals.
The use of software tools to run tests on code automatically, ensuring functionality and identifying defects without manual intervention. Crucial for maintaining high code quality and efficiency in the development process.
Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF) is the smallest set of functionality that delivers significant value to users and can be marketed effectively. Crucial for prioritizing development efforts and releasing valuable product increments quickly, balancing user needs with business objectives.
A collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, that can be assembled to build any number of applications, ensuring consistency and efficiency. Crucial for maintaining design consistency and efficiency across products.
A phenomenon where people fail to recognize a repeated item in a visual sequence, impacting information processing and perception. Important for understanding visual perception and designing interfaces that avoid repetitive confusion.
The path taken by a user to complete a task on a website or application, including all the steps and interactions along the way. Essential for designing intuitive and efficient user experiences.
A cognitive bias where individuals interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign. Important for understanding user interactions and designing experiences that mitigate negative interpretations.
A theory of emotion suggesting that physical and emotional responses to stimuli occur simultaneously and independently. Important for understanding user emotions and designing empathetic user experiences.
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (OODA) is a decision-making framework often used in strategic planning and rapid response situations. Crucial for agile decision-making and strategic planning in dynamic environments.
The practice of developing artificial intelligence systems that are fair, transparent, and respect user privacy and rights. Crucial for ensuring that AI technologies are developed responsibly and ethically.
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.
Products are individual items or services designed to meet specific customer needs, while programs are collections of related projects and products managed together to achieve broader strategic goals. Essential for understanding the different scopes and objectives involved, helping to manage and align efforts effectively within an organization.
A Japanese term meaning "continuous improvement," focusing on small, incremental changes to enhance processes and products. Crucial for fostering a culture of ongoing improvement and excellence in product design and development.
A brainstorming technique where participants sketch eight ideas in eight minutes to generate a wide range of concepts quickly. Essential for fostering creativity and generating diverse ideas rapidly.
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is a concept in educational psychology that describes the difference between what a learner can do independently and what they can achieve with guidance and support. Crucial for designing effective educational experiences and scaffolding that promote optimal learning and skill development.
A visual representation of a sequence of events or user interactions, used to plan and communicate the flow of a narrative or process. Important for visualizing and communicating design concepts and user journeys.
A design pattern that combines human and machine intelligence to enhance decision-making and problem-solving. Important for leveraging AI to support and amplify human capabilities.
A dark pattern where the design focuses the user's attention on one thing to distract them from another. Designers should avoid this deceptive tactic and ensure user attention is not unfairly diverted.
A reusable solution to common design problems that provides a standard way of addressing recurring issues in design. Essential for creating consistent and efficient design solutions.
A principle often used in behavioral economics that suggests people evaluate options based on relative comparisons rather than absolute values. Important for understanding decision-making and designing choices that highlight beneficial comparisons.
Information provided by users about their experience with a product, used to inform improvements and adjustments. Crucial for continuous improvement and user-centered design.
A cognitive bias where individuals or organizations continue to invest in a failing project or decision due to the amount of resources already committed. Important for designers to recognize and mitigate their own risks of continuing unsuccessful initiatives.
Ontology is a comprehensive model that includes entities, their attributes, and the complex relationships between them, while taxonomy is a hierarchical classification system that organizes entities into parent-child relationships. Essential for understanding the depth and scope of data organization, helping to choose the appropriate structure for information management and retrieval.
A visual representation of the user or customer journey, highlighting key interactions, emotions, and pain points. Essential for identifying opportunities to improve user or customer experiences.
Cost Per Thousand (CPM) is a metric used in advertising to denote the cost of 1,000 impressions or views of an advertisement. This metric is crucial for measuring and optimizing advertising spend and reach.
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.
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 unit of measure used in Agile project management to estimate the relative effort required to complete a user story or task. Crucial for planning and managing workload within Agile teams.
A visual tool for organizing information, typically starting with a central concept and branching out to related ideas and details. Essential for brainstorming, planning, and organizing complex information.