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Vocab

The Design Process

Lesson 1: Designing With Empathy

  • Empathy: In design, paying attention to a user's feelings and needs when designing a product.
  • User: Someone who uses an object, including software and hardware.

Lesson 5: User Interfaces

  • Prototype: A first or early model of a product that allows you to test assumptions before developing a final version.
  • User Interface: The visual elements of a program through which a user controls or communicates with the application. Often abbreviated UI.

Lesson 12: Build a Paper Prototype

  • Prototype: A first or early model of a product that allows you to test assumptions before developing a final version.

Data and Society

Lesson 2: Patterns and Representation

  • Decode: to change how information is represented so that it can be read by a person
  • Encode: to change how information is represented so that it can be read by a computer

Lesson 7: Keeping Data Secret

  • Decrypt: to change information so that its hidden meaning is shown
  • Encrypt: to change information so that its meaning is hidden