Visual Interaction Vocabulary

A site's visual interaction vocabulary is the list of guidelines describing the paradigm of how the site interaction and design works: when to use blockquotes, when to use standouts, when to use checkboxes, when to use radio buttons, when to put things in a div box in the margin, etc.

This document will cover both the terminology ("layout" vs "theme" vs "style", etc) used for these items in the site copy, and the visual "vocabulary" -- the visual elements used on a page, in an attempt to standardize the visual-interaction elements of the site.

Useful (if techy) resource: Visual Vocabulary for Interaction Design