Pain Point
A pain point is a specific difficulty, friction, uncertainty, failure, or burden that negatively affects a person’s ability to complete a task or move through an experience.
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Participatory Design
Participatory design is an approach in which people affected by a system are meaningfully involved in design, decision-making, evaluation, or sense-making activities.
Pattern
A pattern is a reusable solution structure for a recurring problem within a defined context, including the problem, when it appears, the solution approach, and relevant trade-offs.
Pattern Library
A pattern library is an organized collection of reusable design patterns, guidance, examples, and usage rules that help teams solve recurring user-interface or service-design problems con...
Persona
A persona is a research-grounded representation of a user group that summarizes goals, behaviours, context, constraints, and needs relevant to a product or service decision.
Plain Language
Plain language is communication that users can find, understand, and use the first time they read or hear it.
Policy Language
Policy language is the wording used to communicate rules, eligibility, obligations, rights, restrictions, or procedures from a policy or institutional requirement to users.
Post-Task Rating
A post-task rating is a subjective measure collected immediately after a user attempts a task to capture perceived ease, difficulty, confidence, satisfaction, or workload.
Privacy Notice
A privacy notice is user-facing information that explains how personal data is collected, used, shared, stored, protected, and controlled.
Problem Statement
A problem statement is a clear description of a user, service, product, or operational problem that explains who is affected, what is happening, why it matters, and what consequence needs...
Progressive Disclosure
Progressive disclosure is a design approach that reveals information, options, or complexity in stages so users can understand and act without being overwhelmed.
Prototype Fidelity
Prototype fidelity is the level of detail, realism, and interactivity represented in a prototype.