WDU STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
What are the three defining characteristics of positive interactive design? - CORRECT ANSWER Easy, effective,
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What are considerations to take when designing a product? - CORRECT ANSWER Who, how, where, what
Why is UX increasing in importance? - CORRECT ANSWER Consumers do more, and poor UX hurts sales
What is involved in interaction design? - CORRECT ANSWER Designing interactive products, creating UXs, art of facilitating human communication and interaction, determining the reason and method for using devices
What are the two overarching goals of interaction design? - CORRECT ANSWER Incorporate the three E's, and involve the users in the design process
What are the benefits of bringing people from diverse backgrounds together? - CORRECT ANSWER Varying experiences and training yields better creativity and originality
What are the costs of bringing people from diverse backgrounds together? - CORRECT ANSWER Can incur costs, can cause miscommunication
What are some of the different aspects involved in interaction design? - CORRECT ANSWER UI design, software design, web design
What are some of the aspects of UX? - CORRECT ANSWER Usability, functionality, aesthetics, emotional appeal
What are some of the reasons the iPod user experience was such a success? - CORRECT ANSWER Quality UX, simple, elegant, pleasurable
What are the four core threads for the Holistic Experience? - CORRECT ANSWER Sensory thread, emotional thread, compositional thread, spatio-temporal thread
What are examples within the sensual thread? - CORRECT ANSWER Pain, fear, thrill, comfort
Define the compositional thread - CORRECT ANSWER Making sense of the experience
What are the four basic activities of interaction design? - CORRECT ANSWER Establishing requirements, designing alternatives, prototyping, evaluating
Define evaluating for the interaction design process - CORRECT ANSWER Making sure the product is appropriate
Define accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER Degree to which a product is usable
What are the 6 usability goals? - CORRECT ANSWER Effectiveness, efficiency, safety, utility, learnability, memorability
What are the purpose of usability goals? - CORRECT ANSWER Allow designer to assess aspects
Define UX goals - CORRECT ANSWER The emotions a user experiences
Define design principles - CORRECT ANSWER Provides a series of best practices for designers to use
What are the most common design principles? - CORRECT ANSWER Visibility, feedback, constraints, consistency, affordance
Define the feedback design principle - CORRECT ANSWER Sending information about the actions that the user took
Define constraints - CORRECT ANSWER Restrict bad choices
Define consistency - CORRECT ANSWER The same sort of elements accomplish the same tasks
Define affordance - CORRECT ANSWER Being able to tell how to use an object
What three thoughts must take place to understand the problem space? - CORRECT ANSWER What's your goal, what are your assumptions, will the product accomplish its goal
What is an example of an assumption - CORRECT ANSWER People will want to watch TV while driving
Define assumption - CORRECT ANSWER Taking something for granted when it needs further investigation
Define claim. - CORRECT ANSWER Stating something to be true when it is still open to question.
Give an example of a claim - CORRECT ANSWER A multimodal style of GPS interaction is safe.
What should be done after writing out claims and assumptions? - CORRECT ANSWER Attempt to support them in order to highlight problems [Show Less]