Impact Metric
An impact metric measures a broader or longer-term effect associated with a service, programme, product, or intervention, often beyond immediate usage or short-term outcomes.
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Implementation Fidelity
Implementation fidelity is the extent to which the built product or interface accurately reflects the approved design intent, including layout, content, components, states, interactions,...
Implementation Review
Implementation review is the structured evaluation of a built interface against approved design, content, component, accessibility, interaction, and front-end quality expectations before...
Implementation Risk
Implementation risk is the possibility that a product, service, system, or change effort will fail, underperform, create harm, or produce unintended consequences during rollout or operation.
Inclusive Design
Inclusive design is an approach to designing products, services, environments, or systems that considers human diversity, different abilities, situational constraints, and exclusion risks...
Information Architecture
Information architecture is the organization, labeling, and structuring of information so people can find, understand, and use it.
Informed Consent
Informed consent is the process of ensuring that participants understand a study and voluntarily agree to take part.
Input Validation
Input validation is the process of checking whether user-provided data meets required rules, formats, constraints, or conditions before it is accepted or processed.
Interaction Consistency
Interaction consistency is the extent to which similar interface elements, actions, states, and workflows behave in predictable and comparable ways across a product, service, or system.
Interaction Cost
Interaction cost is the effort a user must expend to complete a task or obtain value from a system, including physical, cognitive, temporal, and navigational effort.
Interaction Specification
An interaction specification is a documented description of how an interface or component should behave, including states, triggers, feedback, keyboard behavior, focus behavior, validatio...
Interview Guide
An interview guide is a structured plan of topics, prompts, and follow-up questions used to conduct a research interview.