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20 terms to understand web design from the visual stage

Before you start mentioning terms and meanings is important to note that web design is a discipline that allows to develop new and different information and navigability experiences, moreover, is a process that is influenced by several professionals, and visual designers, UX, interface designers and developers Front End.As you can realize web design is a large, multidisciplinary process, but in this post we focus only on the visual web design stage; knows the terms used in this area, upgrade and incorporate your professional vocabulary, incidentally not leave in ¿? when you're in the middle of designers.


20 terms to understand web design from the visual stage
20 terms to understand web design from the visual stage
Gestalt is a German word that translates form design could be understood as an element that will be finished tends to be perceived as a whole. Example: Gloves, shoes and pants Mickey Mouse, even without being present the character of these elements are instantly associated with the famous mouse.Negative space: empty spaces inside design pieces, some designers use this space to incorporate messages or hidden items. Example: the logo of Carrefour with a C in the center; the icon of the Tour de France in its R simulates a cyclist; Amazon in its logo a line that looks like a smile, is further indicates that any product from A to Z.RGB (Red, green, blue) color model that represents digital from a mixture of red, green and blue other colors.GIF (Graphics Interchange Format, Graphics Interchange Format) format used mainly for graphic designs on the web.SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a graphic format that is based on vector management.Anti-aliasing: A technique used to smooth elements created in raster format.Translucent Effect allows you to see part of the background image (without being visually clear shapes and colors) over the top layer of the design.Motif: Decorative patterns comprising a pattern (spiral, flowers, lines, shapes, etc.).
 
Skeuomorphic: Trend makes design elements look as real as the physical plane.UI (User Interface): physical and cognitive surface contact by which the user communicates with the machine.Usability (Usability): The ease with which people can use a web interface, which aims to achieve a particular goal.Interaction design: Design responsible for defining how web sites and applications are used, it aims to improve the user experience and facilitate compliance with the objectives.Favicon: Image accompanying a website url in the address bar, size is 16 by 16 pixels and is used to generate brand recall, also, if you have several tabs open easily identifies each.Wireframes: nesting structures that will content of a website, in them the location of each of the components and operation of the elements shown generally.Style Tiles: visual process web design created by Samantha Warren, which is divided into four stages: listen to what the customer wants, interpret what the customer says, define a visual language and interact with different design styles to make changes.Sprites: Set of images together into a single image.Header: tractors Web page where the menu, the logo, the search and some data on corporate information is located.Footer: Final part of the website where they are usually elements like buttons social networking, navigation links, contact information, among others.Responsive Design: web design technique that is implemented in web sites and applications with the purpose of to fit the screen of any device from which the user navigate.Parallax: Scrolling technique that alters the speed of some of the foreground elements to create an effect of depth on the website.
If you believe that any lack in this glossary term web design add it in the comments, if you want a little deeper you can find more technical terms and glossary of graphic design. Finally, remember it is not read as a little machine, it is routine to include all the knowledge acquired at the end of the day is all that remains.

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