Facets
Every term has exactly one category, because a term is one kind of thing. Facets cut the other way: they collect terms that answer to the same concern from wherever they are filed. Where the family name is itself vocabulary, there is no facet and the term's own page carries the family.
- a11y12 terms
Terms filed under their own kind that exist because of accessibility.
- ai11 terms
The vocabulary of interfaces an assistant drives, or that drive one.
- auth16 terms
Signing in, staying in, and proving you are a person.
- commerce23 terms
Choosing, paying, and the pressure applied along the way.
- dataviz24 terms
Charts and the parts they are assembled from.
- editorial26 terms
Vocabulary the page inherited from print and publishing.
- forms53 terms
Assembling a form, filling it in, and telling someone it is wrong.
- gamification8 terms
Progress, streaks, and rewards used as motivation.
- keyboard30 terms
Reaching and driving an interface without a pointer.
- media26 terms
Video, audio, images, and the controls and alternatives they need.
- messaging20 terms
Conversations, presence, and things that arrive unannounced.
- navigation33 terms
Getting somewhere else, and knowing where you are.
- onboarding16 terms
The first run, the empty screen, and teaching in place.
- perceived-performance22 terms
Making a wait read as shorter than it is.
- platform-registers31 terms
Vocabulary that exists because of one platform: TV, watch, phone, desktop, headset.
- scroll32 terms
Everything that happens because a page is longer than a screen.
- search13 terms
Asking for something by typing, and narrowing what comes back.
- selection15 terms
Marking what an action will apply to.
- tables15 terms
Rows, columns, and reading across both.
- theming22 terms
One interface, more than one palette.
- tokens23 terms
Design decisions stored as names so they can be repointed.
- touch40 terms
Input from a finger rather than a cursor.
- web-platform48 terms
Terms that name a web platform feature, not a design idea.
Not a facet: a head term carries these
Dark pattern, microinteraction and the rest are words in their own right, with a definition and a specimen, so a facet would be a second copy of something the term already says. The family lives on the term's page.
- Dark pattern19 related terms
Seventeen deceptive patterns declare it, so its own page lists them.
- Responsive web design8 related terms
The umbrella over LukeW's five responsive layout patterns.
- Microinteraction4 related terms
The unit the ripples, pulses and lifts are instances of.
- Skeuomorphism5 related terms
The claim every revival and reaction to it is measured against.
Not a facet: these are categories
A category answers what kind of thing a term is, and every term has exactly one, so a category is a filing decision rather than a concern that cuts across. Each one has its own page under browse.