PRACTICE QUIZ

Whether or not a person has a disability, considering accessibility in design often helps everyone, including those with temporary, situational, or permanent disabilities. Products created to enhance the user experience resulted in a solution that helped everyone, such as closed captioning, enlarged fonts, and magnifying tools. Explanation: In the disability community and as UX designers, the social model of disability is defined as a disability being caused by the way society is organized or how products are designed rather than a person)s ability or difference. Similar to how many products are created for those who are right-handed and less often for those who are left-handed, designers look at how a product should transform to meet underrepresented needs. Explanation: Accessibility in design, particularly equity-focused design, considers all aspects of a product to ensure it’s accessible and fair to various genders, races, and abilities, especially those from historically underrepresented groups.

After starting the design sprint off on the right track with the Understand phase, the Ideate phase helps the team find solutions to build upon. To get the creative juices flowing, you start this phase by coming up with ideas and building on them to create solutions.

Empathizing with users helps researchers understand what users need, why they need it, and how they solve problems. This is vital in building positive user experiences.

This is an example of a support pain point, since the user can’t get the answers they need. Explanation: This is an example of a product pain point, since it is a usability issue that frustrates the user. Explanation: This is an example of a financial pain point, since the user has to provide sensitive personal information without a clear reason.

This is an example of a user persona that describes many different aspects of a user. Understanding who you’re designing for and recognizing that they lead a complex life allows you to refine your solutions to solve problems specific to them. By creating a detailed persona that has all the qualities of a real person in your user group, you can design meaningful solutions for people like Nistha.

This user story is complete with a type of user, an action, and a benefit. A complete user story keeps the problem user-centered, actionable, and clear.

This approach solves a problem for a specific user, but the solution extends to the many other users of the product. This approach provides multiple design solutions that account for different users, such as those with disabilities or those who come from traditionally marginalized backgrounds. These considerations improve the experience for the intended user, as well as other users of the product.

In this statement, the user’s name, characteristics, need, and the reason for the need have been clearly defined.

It’s important to begin by brainstorming many possible solutions and recording them so you have a large pool of possibilities. Gathering a diverse team provides unique perspectives when you begin to eliminate obvious solutions. Then, once you’ve refined your total number of solutions, you can assess which are best suited to your users’ needs. Completing the ideation process in this order allows you to identify many possible solutions.

A competitive audit is a report that evaluates what competing companies are doing well with their product, and where they are failing. This information can improve your product by addressing problems your competitors haven’t accounted for.

This scenario aims to test a specific aspect of the product to see how it works, so a close-up storyboard would work best here. Designers use close-up storyboards to identify what things should do, like how a user moves from one specific screen to the next.

Wireframes establish the structure of your page before you move into the next stage of designs. This helps you and your stakeholders evaluate how the pages of your design will work before committing to any details.

You create digital wireframes directly after your paper wireframes. Digital wireframes make it easier to pay attention to the details of your pages compared to the paper version’s hand-drawn sketches. They are also shareable, making collaboration with others easy.

Prototypes represent an entire design and demonstrate how it works. Wireframes provide an outline of each screen that goes into a prototype.

Since a pen and paper are the only necessary tools to create paper prototypes, they allow for low-cost, rapid iteration. Designers can create multiple prototypes in less time.

Implicit bias, or also known as unconscious bias, is the collection of attitudes and stereotypes we associate to people without our conscious knowledge.

Usability studies assess the difficulty of completing core tasks in a design. Usability studies provide user feedback that helps the design team make improvements to the user experience.

Serial position effect is a psychological bias where people are more likely to remember the first and last few items when given a list, while the items in the middle tend to blur.

After you identify the themes in the data, you determine insights based on each theme. This will help the design team implement your insights in order to improve the design

A good insight is clear, addresses the research question, and helps stakeholders connect with the user’s needs.

You should include a section for themes, insights and recommendations, details about the study, and an appendix in your presentation slide deck. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF TYPOGRAPHY

A font is the size, thickness, and emphasis of letters. Some variations include light, bold, italicized, or regular.

Arial is an example of a sans serif typeface name.

This is an example of a serif typeface because of the extra lines hanging from the text.

Typography communicates a brand’s identity and values, adds hierarchy to help readers navigate a page better, and makes text easier to read. Explanation: Typography makes the content legible for users, adds hierarchy to help readers navigate a page better, and demonstrates brand guidelines. Explanation: Typographic hierarchy helps people better navigate a page, makes text easier to read, and demonstrates brand guidelines. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON COLOR

Designers should use the accent color sparingly (in about 10% of the design) to add emphasis to a specific design element.

Designers should follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to make sure their designs are accessible.

Effective use of color can draw the user’s gaze to a particular area of your product and guide users on where to look. Explanation: Color is useful when thinking about how users feel as they navigate through a product. Explanation: Color can guide the user flow through your design and help ease the user’s journey though your product.

A color’s meaning can change based on the user’s region. Color plays a vital role in conveying emotion to your users and the only way to know if your product is conveying the correct emotion is to do relevant research. Explanation: If the brief wasn’t specific about the brand colors that the client expected, Luanne could’ve asked questions prior to completing the high-fidelity design. Explanation: Luanne could have gotten a better idea of what similar apps were doing if she’d conducted competitive research before beginning her app design.

A typographic hierarchy is a method of ordering typefaces and fonts in a layout consistently to help users better navigate a page.

Icons that create easy transitions can improve the user experience. They should limit wasted space, and support global audiences. Explanation: Icons have universal meanings that can be accessible to wider audiences. They should limit wasted space, and create easy transitions to another page or location. Explanation: The compact size of icons limit wasted space by linking to necessary functionality, which can improve the user experience. They should support global audiences, and create easy transitions to another page or location.