walk-through -

A type of animated presentation that simulates a walking tour of a three-dimensional scene.

An interface that the target audience should be able to use without having to read manuals or instructions, even if they have never seen the interface.

(1) A graphic representation of the shape of a wave that indicates its characteristics (such as frequency and amplitude). (2) A digital method of storing and manipulating audio data.

Synonym for long shot.

Synonym for original footage.

An area of the screen with visible boundaries within which information is displayed. A window can be smaller than or the same size as the screen. Windows can appear to overlap on the screen.

The size and location of a window.

Technical effect of fading away one screen to reveal another.

A container that fills the entire screen and holds all of the objects that make up the user interface.

Describes an optical disc that once written to, cannot be overwritten. Storage capacity ranges from 400MB to 3.2GB. Present technology allows only one side to be read at a time; to access the other side, the disk must be turned over.

Script abbreviation for wide shot.

What You See Is What You Get. The appearance of the object is in actual form. For example, a document that looks the same on a display screen as it does when it is printed. Composed views of objects are often WYSIWYG.