Term
Interface
The part of a tool you actually touch — the surface where a person and a system meet.
Glossary
Glossary
The words behind the notes — key terms and ideas explained in plain language, one clear definition at a time.
A glossary should open a door, not guard it. Nicole Junkermann gathers the terms that show up most often in these notes and explains each one in a sentence or two — enough to keep reading, never so much that it becomes a lecture.
Definitions here favour everyday meaning over technical precision. The goal is a shared, comfortable vocabulary, so the ideas can do the work instead of the words.
Term
Default
The choice a tool makes for you when you make none. Quiet, but powerful.
Term
Signal & Noise
What matters in a stream of information, and everything else competing for the same attention.
Term
Privacy
Keeping a say over what is known about you, and by whom — treated here as a starting point, not an add-on.
Explain a word well and the idea behind it almost explains itself.From the notebook of Nicole Junkermann