galaxy

→ Swahili: galaksi

From Middle English galaxye, galaxie, from Old French galaxie, from Latin galaxias, from Ancient Greek γαλαξίας (galaxías, “Milky Way”), shortening of γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kúklos, “milky circle”), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).

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Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.

2016, Reyna Young, Hanover Falls, page 42:

Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.

2017, Rebekah L. Purdy, Incriminating Dating:

She hurriedly said that she found an^([sic]) faded galaxy blanket. She loved galaxy patterned things.

(fashion, design) Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background.


overshoot

en-noun

overshoot (countable and uncountable, plural overshoots)

/ˌəʊ.vəˈʃuːt/

From Middle English overshoten, oversheten (“to shoot beyond, shoot past, pour down from above”), perhaps continuing Old English ofersċēotan (“to shoot down”), equivalent to over- + shoot.

inh

The portion resting beyond the capline or baseline is called overshoot.

2019, Reece Patton, Formatting for Print:

The bowl of the D and the O are usually not identical, as most D forms do not have overshoot or undershoot.

2020, Karen Cheng, Designing Type, 2nd edition, page 88:

(uncountable, typography, design) The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.


fodder

en-noun

fodder (countable and uncountable, plural fodders)

From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
Compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder. More at food.

der

(slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.


Norman

From Middle English Norman, from Old English Norman (a variant of Norþman) and Old French Normant.
It is certain that the word is derived from the base of the Germanic words for north and the Germanic base of the words for man. However, given the frequent movement of Germanic groups especially into and out of Britain in the post-classical world, it is unclear in what tongue it came to be used first. In addition, the generally accepted meaning, a person from Normandy or one of the many French-speaking invaders to Britain, was used chiefly by Anglo-Norman and Old French, though it originally referred to any Scandinavian of the time. See also Northman.

Darn Norman door! I thought I had to push, but I actually had to pull.

(design, attributive) Having a counterintuitive design that confuses users about proper operation; after Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things (1988).


comp

The purpose of a comp is to give your client, whether that is your boss, a committee you're on, or an outside company that has retained you for design assistance, a look at what the finished piece you've designed will look like.

2008, Marcia Layton Turner, Marjorie Crum, chapter 16, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Graphic Design, Penguin, →ISBN:

(design) Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.


iterate

en-verb

iterate (third-person singular simple present iterates, present participle iterating, simple past and past participle iterated)

iterates (present singular third-person)
iterating (participle present)
iterated (participle past)
iterated (past)

From Latin iterō (“do it for a second time, repeat”), from iterum (“again”), akin to is (“he, that”).

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For NASA and most private aerospace companies, a single crash is a setback that can take years to recover from. SpaceX works more like a Silicon Valley startup, where the goal is to fail quickly and iterate.

December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine:

(design, transitive, intransitive) To repeat an activity, making incremental changes each time


transduction

en-noun

transduction (countable and uncountable, plural transductions)

Instead of applying a transduction method only once, we can apply different transduction methods to an initial network in sequence. In each sequence, different or identical transduction methods can be applied in different orders. This usually leads to many different final networks.

2003, Wai-Kai Chen, Logic Design, →ISBN:

(logic design) The improvement of an electronic logic network by reduction of redundant components in an initial version, using an established pruning procedure, then applying permissible functions for transformation of the network into a workable form. Thereafter the transformation and reduction may be repeated till no worthwhile further improvement results.


MVP

Coordinate term: MVC

(software, design) Initialism of model-view-presenter.


PAC

(software design) Initialism of presentation-abstraction-control.


semantic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.

(software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.


DDD

DDD (countable and uncountable, plural DDDs)

(software design) Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”).


parametric

[pæɹ.əˈmɛt͡ʃ.ɹɪk]

/ˌpɛɹ.əˈmɛt.ɹɪk/

[ˌpɛɹ.əˈmɛt͡ʃ.ɹɪk]

parametric designs

parametric programming

(mathematics, design, engineering, computing) Of, relating to, or defined using parameters. In mathematics, this typically means related to parametrization / parametric equation.

parameterized

often synonymous, when agency of imposing such nature is relevant


aesthetic information

Calque of French information esthétique, as used by French social psychologist and philosopher Abraham Moles in his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958).

lang

Coordinate term: semantic information

If esthetic information is a key element in the structure of political cognitions, it is clearly of crucial importance to learn as much as possible about the dynamics of their generation. Which forms of political cues convey or reinforce which meanings in mass publics?

1971, Murray Edelman, Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence, page 36:

That is to say that the feeling we experience when we see leaves fluttering in the wind is difficult to translate into a verbal description or a drawing. Aesthetic information has no immediate, direct use.

2020 [2015], Jörg Kurt Grütter, Basics of Perception in Architecture, →ISBN, page 5:

Skimming and scanning were two of the main hyper-reading techniques encouraged by the abundance of aesthetic information in the turn-of-the-century ILN and Graphic numbers.

2021, Alison Hedley, Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918, →ISBN, page 82:

(sociology, design) Sensory information that cannot be articulated in language.


interaction design

(software design) The structure and definition of the behavior of a system, the surrounding environment, corresponding artifacts, and the elements that communicate the aforementioned behavior.


form factor

Shugart Associates first introduced the 5.25-inch form factor along with the first 5.25-inch floppy drive back in 1976.

2004, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, page 311:

2007, March, Erin McKean, “Redefining the dictionary”, Technology Entertainment Design
I want him to barely remember that this is the form factor that dictionaries used to come in.

(engineering, design, commerce) The geometry of an object, especially in engineering design; configuration.

kokoluokka

The geometry of an object in engineering design


characters per inch

Please use a type that is 10 characters per inch.

(design, typography) A unit of measurement of the number of typographic characters that fit on a one inch line of printed type. This unit is mainly used to specify font sizes that have the same width for each character (monospaced), however it may also be used to give an average for fonts with characters of varying widths.


parameterization

en-noun

parameterization (countable and uncountable, plural parameterizations)

(design, engineering) The representation of physical characteristics or properties by parameters rather than as sui generis instances; usually and especially:

(computing) Such parameterized representation in a computer model.


bill of materials

bill of materials (plural bills of materials)

(manufacturing, design engineering) A list of materials and components used in a manufactured item.


RWD

responsive web design
responsive web design#English

(design, Web) Abbreviation of responsive web design.


IDM

IDM (countable and uncountable, plural IDMs)

intelligent design
intelligent design#English

(design) Initialism of intelligent design movement.

Alternative form: IdM

identity management
w:identity management

(design, software) Initialism of identity management.


pixel-perfect

en-adj

pixel-perfect (comparative more pixel-perfect, superlative most pixel-perfect)

more pixel-perfect (comparative)
most pixel-perfect (superlative)

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It was the first (and, indeed, practically the only one to this day) to have an animated loading screen, the first to have pixel-perfect collision detection […]

1991, Stuart Campbell, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 1”, in Your Sinclair:

Manual pixel-perfect collision-detection routines can be difficult to create and processor-intensive to run.

2003, Colin Moock, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide:

(video games, design) Involving precision at the pixel level.

(computing, design) Having precise dimension ratios in all aspects on well-defined drawing glyphs.


Bauhaus

Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969).

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[J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears.

1968, 50 Years Bauhaus: German Exhibition; Royal Academy of Arts, September 21 – October 27 1968, Stuttgart: Württembergischer Kunstverein; Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →OCLC, page 26:

Not until the 1930's was the American public aware of the significance of the Bauhaus. Several factors contributed to this: American Bauhaus students were returning from Germany; Bauhaus design, as tubular steel chairs and lighting fixtures, were being imported from Germany; […]

1974, Barbara Ann Henriksen, The Bauhaus and American Art Education (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 17:

While the direct impact of the iconoclastic Bauhaus typography on bookwork is limited, its indirect influence, encouraging designers such as Jan Tschichold to re-examine the whole tradition of typography and its relationship to twentieth-century life, is difficult to overestimate.

2004, Alan Bartram, Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book, London: British Library, →ISBN, page 49, column 2:

The Bauhaus has long been celebrated as the most influential art school of the twentieth century. The word Bauhaus means many things to many people: some are inspired by so-called ‘Bauhaus style’ – from tubular-steel furniture to the strict geometry of primary-coloured triangles, circles and squares; others worship its position as one of the greatest emblems of the Modern movement’s ambitious desire to change the world.

2012 May 3, “Exhibition in focus: Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Art Gallery”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:

Two sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years – caves with art dating to the Ice Age and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago – highlight Germany's submissions for the prestigious World Heritage Site designation by the U.N.'s cultural agency, UNESCO. […] The Bauhaus buildings in northeastern Germany were designed by the school's second director, Hannes Meyer.

2017 July 3, Michael Faulhaber, David Rising, “Ice Age Art, Bauhaus Buildings Highlight German UNESCO Hopes”, in U.S. News & World Report, [Washington, D.C.]:

(architecture, design, also attributively) A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.

Fritz Lang
Isokon
Isokon Long Chair
Marcel Breuer
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Thea von Harbou
Walter Gropius


multiton

creational design pattern
creational pattern

(software, design) A creational design pattern resembling the singleton pattern except that multiple keyed instances of the class can be created.


MDA

en-noun

MDA (countable and uncountable, plural MDAs)

message-driven architecture
message-driven architecture#English

(software, design) Initialism of message-driven architecture.

model-driven architecture
model-driven architecture#English

(software, design) Initialism of model-driven architecture.


underdrawing

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You can use a croquis as an underdrawing for fashion drawing

2016, Irina V Ivanova, Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book, page 11:

Used as a base or underdrawing, it can be slipped under a page in the sketchbook and worked off of from there.

2022, Linda Tain, Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers, page 75:

To ensure that their focus is on the design of the garment, not the proportions of the figure, they may rely on an underdrawing or lay figure—a well-proportioned pose that can be slid under a page and used as a template to help control proportions and the location of garment details.

2022, Sandra Keiser, Deborah Vandermar, Myrna B. Garner, Beyond Design: The Synergy of Apparel Product Development:

(fashion design) An image of a figure that is slid under the page on which a designer draws a garment, so that the result conforms to the figure's proportions.


OOA

OOA (countable and uncountable, plural OOAs)

(computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented analysis.

(computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented application.


OOD

OOD (countable and uncountable, plural OODs)

(uncountable, computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented design.


OMT

OMT (countable and uncountable, plural OMTs)

(computing, design) Initialism of Object Model Template.

(computing, design) Initialism of Object-Modeling Technique.


diamond plate

(design) A type of lightweight metal stock with a regular pattern of raised diamonds or lines (anti-slip surfacing).


DbC

Design by Contract
design by contract#English

(software, design) Initialism of Design by Contract.


contract programming

design by contract
design by contract#English

(software, design) Synonym of design by contract


composition over inheritance

composite reuse principle
composite reuse principle#English

(software, design) Synonym of composite reuse principle


composite reuse principle

(software, design) a technique by which classes may achieve polymorphic behavior and code reuse by containing other classes that implement the desired functionality instead using inheritance.


POLA

principle of least astonishment
principle of least astonishment#English

(software, design) Initialism of principle of least astonishment.


principle of least astonishment

(software, user interface, design) A principle that the design should match the user's experience, expectations, and mental models.


proxy pattern

structural design pattern
structural pattern

(software, design) A structural design pattern that is implemented as a class functioning as an interface for a network connection, a large object in memory, a file, or some other resource that is expensive or impossible to duplicate.


decorator pattern

decorator pattern (plural decorator patterns)

(software, design) A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that allows behaviour to be added to an existing object dynamically.


composite pattern

composite pattern (plural composite patterns)

(software, design) A structural (and partitioning) design pattern where a group of objects are to be treated in the same way as a single instance of an object.


bridge pattern

(software, design) A structural design pattern that decouples an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.


messaging pattern

messaging pattern (plural messaging patterns)

architectural pattern
architectural pattern

(software, design) A network-oriented architectural pattern that describes how two different parts of a message pass system connect and communicate with each other.


front controller pattern

front controller pattern (plural front controller patterns)

(software, design) A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that provides a centralized entry point for handling requests and is an extension to the model-view-controller design pattern.


strategy pattern

strategy pattern (plural strategy patterns)

(software, design) A creational design pattern where algorithms can be selected at runtime.


MDP

MDP (countable and uncountable, plural MDPs)

messaging pattern
messaging pattern#English

(software, design) Initialism of messaging pattern.


state pattern

behavioural design pattern
behavioural pattern

(software, design) A behavioural design pattern similar to the strategy pattern that is used to represent the state of an object.


visitor pattern

visitor pattern (plural visitor patterns)

(software, design) A behavioural design pattern that separates an algorithm from an object structure on which it operates.


module pattern

(software, design) A structural design pattern to implement the concept of software modules (modular programming) in a programming language that lacks support for them.


pattern language

pattern language (plural pattern languages)

(architecture, design, software) A structured method of describing good design practices within a field of expertise.


message-driven architecture

message-driven architecture (plural message-driven architectures)

Event-Driven Architecture
event-driven architecture#English

(software, design) Synonym of Event-Driven Architecture


model-driven architecture

model-driven architecture (plural model-driven architectures)

(software, design) A software design approach for the development of software systems that provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications expressed as models.


visitor design pattern

visitor design pattern (plural visitor design patterns)

(software, design) Synonym of visitor pattern


structural pattern

structural pattern (plural structural patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that makes it easier to create relationships between entities.


creational pattern

creational pattern (plural creational patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that standardizes the mechanisms of object creation.


ZOI

Zero One Infinity
zero one infinity rule#English

(software design) Initialism of Zero One Infinity. (a rule of thumb in software suggesting that arbitrary limits on the number of entity instances are not allowed)


MCSD

(design) Initialism of member of the Chartered Society of Designers, (a professional body for designers)


OCL

(computing, design) Initialism of Object Constraint Language (declarative language developed at IBM that is now part of the UML standard)


policy pattern

strategy pattern
strategy pattern#English

(software, design) Synonym of strategy pattern


ransom note effect

ransom note effect (plural ransom note effects)

In reference of the practice of assembling ransom demands from letters cut out of newspapers, to conceal the sender's handwriting.

(design) The unprofessional appearance of a document that uses too many different typefaces.


edge control

We do not feel that it is necessary to go below 3 inch rotors since an effective edge control strategy will control the narrow edge shape problem without an accurate measurement of the problem.

1984, Aluminum Association Shape Control Workshop Papers, page 22:

Edge control not only helps to meet the need for strip shape quality, but also improve the yield of strip.

2011, Hui Xuan Zhang, Ye Han, Fu Xiao Chen, Materials and Computational Mechanics, page 134:

Center and edge control of linewidth and isolated and nested lines have been the primary control metrics of interest for plasma etching .

2018, William S. Levine, The Control Handbook, pages 11-15:

From the perspective of cyber-physical space mapping, the technologies of software definition and virtualization modeling are extended to edge hardware resources (including: terminal device resources, edge control device resources, edge computing resources, edge storage resources) and edge application services.

2020, Pengfei Hu, Chunming He, “Edge Computing-Based Solution and Framework for Software-Defined Industrial Intelligent Control in Industrial Internet of Things”, in Huansheng Ning, Feifei Shi, editor, Cyberspace Data and Intelligence, and Cyber-Living, Syndrome, and Health, page 148:

(design) Control over the exact placement of edges on a line or shape one is mapping, cutting, or etching.


design language

design language (plural design languages)

Apple's design language has evolved over time. In the 1980s frogdesign created the “Snow White design language” for Apple that was characterized by its use of vertical and horizontal stripes as decoration, various means of making the computer enclosure appear smaller that it actually was, and the distinctive off-white color.

2010, Hossein Bidgoli, editor, The Handbook of Technology Management, Supply Chain Management, Marketing and Advertising, and Global Management, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 314:

(design) A cohesive visual style and user experience applied consistently throughout the design of a product.


step and repeat

(often attributive, design, computer graphics) A kind of design, typically for banners or backdrops, consisting of logos or images at fixed offsets.


design system

Design systems are more than the latest fad; they are a natural evolution in the intersection between art, technology, and industry.

2019, Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis, Building Design Systems: Unify User Experiences through a Shared Design Language, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(design, graphical user interface) A collection of reusable components and clear standards that can be assembled together to build any number of applications; a unified design language.


scaled copy

(design, mathematics) A copy of a figure in which every length in the original is multiplied by the same scale factor.


unexpected red theory

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First gained popularity on the social media platform TikTok in January 2024. Coined by Taylor Migliazzo Simon in early 2024.

Of course, the other essential part of the “unexpected red theory” is the unexpected — the element of surprise.

2024 February 24, Ingrid Fetell Lee, “The science behind the “unexpected red theory””, in The Aesthetics of Joy:

(social media, design, fashion, neologism) A trend in interior design based on the idea that any room will appear more attractive if one adds a red item or feature to it, especially if the red item appears unusual or mismatches the other colors in the room.


spathroom

Blend of spa + bathroom. Attested from at least the 2010s (see quotations below).

A recent survey by bathroom specialists Villeroy & Boch confirms that view, dubbing the space the "spathroom". It found that almost half of Britons say they consider their bathroom an important private space where they can relax

2014 February 3, “Splash out with a bathroom facelift: Pull the plug on your outdated bathroom and create your own spa at home”, in Hull Daily Mail, page 20:

It’s why that major home-living trend cocooning is becoming more and more entrenched and now also moving in to bathrooms in the form of the spathroom.

2023 January 16, “Bring the world to a stop in your spathroom sanctuary”, in IMM Colongne:

Sleek cylinder lights are perfect for a spathroom with their elegant elongated holder. They pair beautifully with round or dome shades giving an air of simplicity and calm.

2023 May 2, Isobel Green, “Lighting the way to fabulous style”, in Echo News, South Essex: Gannett:

As he explains, your bathroom doesn’t have to be so clinical. Give it the upgrade it deserves, to make it a 'spa- bathroom' or a spathroom.

2024 April 12, “From spa bathrooms to curvy comfort: Must-have design trends for 2024”, in Gulf News, Dubai:

(nutrition, design) A bathroom that has been designed to be very clean, comfortable and relaxing, like a spa.


responsive web design

Coordinate term: adaptive web design

(design, Web) Approach to web design that makes Web pages render well on a variety of devices and screen sizes to ensure usability and satisfaction.

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