UX Lex
An evolving, interactive glossary of UX research terms.
It's ironic. Those of us who work in UX, user researchers included, aspire to create terrific user experiences. That’s what we do. But what we have done with our own terminology is to create a mess. Eighty UXers from around the globe began to address that problem in September 2019. Here is a sneak peek of that work. More details, and full credits, to come. Sign up here to get weekly terms in your inbox >>
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A
Accessibility Testing*
Agile*
Affordance*
Analytics*
Archetype*
Artifact*
Attention or Discoverability test*
B
C
Click test*
Clickstream analysis*
Competitive analysis*
Content strategist*
Content Strategy*
Conversion rate*
CX: Customer experience / CX research
D
Design Debt*
Design thinking*
Design Sprint*
Designer*
Diary study*
Desirability test*
Dogfooding*
E
Effective vs. Efficient*
Empathy*
End users*
Error analysis*
Error rate*
Ethics in research*
Ethnography*
Eye-tracking*
Experience Design*
Expert Review*
F
Featureset*
Fidelity (low and high)*
Field Study*
Fitt’s Law*
Flat Design*
FTUX or FTU (First time user experience)*
Focus group*
Friction*
G
Gestalt Principles*
H
Heat map*
Heuristics Analysis*
Hick’s law*
HCD / Human centered design*
Human Factors*
I
Idea generation*
In-context interview*
IA / Information architecture*
J
Jobs-to-be-Done*
K
KPI / Key Performance Indicators
L
Lean UX*
Learnability*
M
Material Design*
Message or content test*
Measure*
Metrics*
Mindset*
N
Needs assessment*
NPS / Net Promoter Score*
O
Observation*
Observer*
P
Paired interviews*
Panel*
Path*
Participants*
Pattern library*
Product design*
Product Manager*
Product scoping*
Protothon*
PURE Method*
PUX / Previous User Experience*
Q
R
Recruiter*
Reframing*
Remote usability study*
Roadmap*
S
Secondary research
Sentiment Test/Analysis*
Service Design*
Scenario*
Scenario Planning*
Shop-along*
Stack ranking*
Storyboarding*
Subjects*
Summative research*
SUS / System Usability Scale*
SUPRQ / Standardized Usability Percentile Rank*
SWOT analysis*
Systems Thinking*
T
Task Analysis*
Tech Debt*
Tree Test*
U
Unfocus groups*
UMUX / Usability Metric for User Experience*
Use case*
80/20 Rule or Pareto Principle*
Unit Testing*
Usability*
Usability lab*
Usable*
User Stories*
UI / User Interface*
UXR / User Experience Research
UXR / User Experience Researcher
V
Visual Design*
VOC / Voice of Customer*
W
Waterfall*
Wireframe*
Workflow analysis*
*These terms are still in process.
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