Glossary

Human Factors

Human factors, also known as ergonomics and comfort design, is the practice of designing products, systems or processes that appropriately take into account the interaction between the people who use them. Human factors is a combination of several disciplines, including psychology, engineering, interaction design and user experience. Human factors can be used to reimagine something to be more efficient, or to reduce the errors made by people, or even to improve the safety of something.

Hick's Law

In short, we can define it as decision-making time. It's the time it takes to make a decision when you consider the options you have. Hick's Law says that the more options you give your users, the longer it will take them to reach a decision. Designers don't use Hick's Law alone in design. They always combine it with other design principles to make it work effectively.

Heart Frame

The Heart framework is a set of user-centered metrics. The Google Heart framework is a method for measuring UX, developed based on Google's user experience research. It allows you to measure user experience at scale with metrics for happiness, engagement, adoption, retention and task analysis.

Hex

It is a 16-based number system used to represent large numbers.

HTTP

A protocol that allows web pages to be loaded via hypertext links.

HTML

It is a standard markup language for creating web pages and serves to describe the structure of a web page.