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Google UX Design Professional Certificate • STUDY MODE

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QUESTION 1 OF 36

What is the primary purpose of responsive web design?

Allows a website to change automatically depending on the size of the deviceCorrect Answer

Helps researchers make more informed design decisions

Allows designers to more easily test web design prototypes

Organizes, categorizes, and structures a website

Explanation:

Responsive web design allows a website to change automatically depending on the size of the device. Creating responsive websites allows companies to reach people that use various devices with different screen sizes. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON PROBLEM STATEMENTS

QUESTION 2 OF 36

What are the components of a problem statement? Select all that apply.

Location

User characteristicsCorrect Answer

InsightCorrect Answer

NameCorrect Answer

User needsCorrect Answer

Explanation:

There are four main components of a problem statement, including the characteristics of the user. The other main components of a problem statement are name, user needs, and insights into why the user has those needs. Explanation: There are four main components of a problem statement, including insights into why the user specified those needs. The other main components of a problem statement are name, user characteristics, and user needs. Explanation: There are four main components of a problem statement, including the name of the user. The other main components of a problem statement are user characteristics, user needs, and insights into why the user has those needs. Explanation: There are four main components of a problem statement, including the needs of the user. The other main components of a problem statement are name, user characteristics, and insight on why the user has said needs.

QUESTION 3 OF 36

Consider the following sentence: “Andre is a competitive eater who needs to find an app that will balance their competitive billiards schedule because they are planning a special event next month.” Is this an example of a good problem statement?

Yes

NoCorrect Answer

Explanation:

Even though this statement technically includes all components of a problem statement, none of the components seem related to one another. A problem statement is a clear description of a user’s need that needs to be addressed, and this sentence does not provide that clarity.

QUESTION 4 OF 36

Fill in the blank: When starting a project in Adobe XD, you select the size of the device you want to design for in _____.

PixelsCorrect Answer

millimeters

inches

centimeters

Explanation:

Adobe XD allows you to select the device size based on pixels.

QUESTION 5 OF 36

What tools can you use to create designs in an artboard? Select all that apply:

Magnifying glass

TextCorrect Answer

RectangleCorrect Answer

PenCorrect Answer

Explanation:

You can use the rectangle, ellipse, line, pen, and text tools to create the designs on your artboard. They each serve a specific purpose in how you can customize your design. Explanation: You can use the rectangle, ellipse, line, pen, and text tools to create the designs on your artboard. They each serve a specific purpose in how you can customize your design. Explanation: You can use the rectangle, ellipse, line, pen, and text tools to create the designs on your artboard. They each serve a specific purpose in how you can customize your design.

QUESTION 6 OF 36

Personas are one of the most effective tools for giving designers a clear direction for creating design solutions, since they accurately reflect the wants and needs of users. What information does an effective persona include? Select all that apply.

Ideal characteristics of a user

Brief story that conveys the persona’s user journeyCorrect Answer

User biographical informationCorrect Answer

User goals and frustrationsCorrect Answer

Explanation:

Storytelling is an effective way to get a point across. Creating a brief overview or story that conveys the persona’s user journey can drive home the goals and frustrations the design is aiming to solve. It's also important to include user goals, frustrations, and relevant biographical information. Explanation: If it pertains to the goal of the end product, biographical information can be helpful for visualizing the direction of a design. This information can include age, education, hometown, family situation, and occupation. It's also important to include user goals, frustrations, and a brief story that conveys the persona's user journey. Explanation: To effectively capture a persona, it is important to include goals and frustrations that reflect the ones discovered during the interview process. It should also include a brief story that conveys the persona's user journey, and relevant biographical information.

QUESTION 7 OF 36

Which of the following is a good example of a user story?

As a busy professional and single parent, I want to have locally cooked meals delivered to my home, so that I can offer nutritious meals to my child without needing to cook.Correct Answer

As a busy professional, I want ready-to-eat meals that are healthy, easy to prepare, and energizes me for a few hours.

As a single parent, I want freshly prepared meals that are easy to heat up for my kids because I live a busy lifestyle and don’t have time.

As a single parent, I want freshly prepared meals for myself, so that my dogs have a warm place to sleep.

Explanation:

A user story should include the type of user (who), the action (what), and the benefit to the why of the user story. This fulfills each aspect of the formula.

QUESTION 8 OF 36

After adding a description for each user action, what is the next step in mapping out a user journey?

Reduce the impact of designer bias

Identify improvement opportunities

Add how the user feels at each pointCorrect Answer

Note each action that a user needs to take to reach their goal

Explanation:

After adding a description for each user action, the next step in mapping out a user journey is to add how the user feels at each point.

QUESTION 9 OF 36

Which of the following is an example of a good problem statement?

Lee needs a better way to store tools because they’re scattered everywhere in the garage.

Isabella is a head chef who needs an efficient tool to clean and store knives because cleaning at the sink takes too long.Correct Answer

Monty is a professor who needs a cloud storage tool to store all of his class materials.

Explanation:

The statement includes the user’s name, characteristics, their need, and insight regarding why the user has the need.

QUESTION 10 OF 36

You have gotten to know the users of an app you are designing. You are clear on the goals for the app and the users’ expectations. You have also organized the user flow of the app and created a roadmap for users to achieve their desired goals. By doing these things, what have you performed?

Chunking

Wireframing

Information architectureCorrect Answer

Scaffolding

QUESTION 11 OF 36

You are designing a website that has a parent level at the top. It then narrows the content down into a child level. Which website structure is this?

HierarchicalCorrect Answer

Matrix

Database

Sequential

QUESTION 12 OF 36

You are in the early stages of designing a responsive website. You have created a diagram of the site that shows how pages are prioritized, linked, and labeled. What tool have you created?

A sitemapCorrect Answer

The navigation menu

The information architecture

A style guide

QUESTION 13 OF 36

You are ready to wireframe the homepage of the app you are designing. What should you do first?

Make a list of all the information that will go on your homepage.Correct Answer

Gather all of the content and images that will be included.

Create the top-level navigation that will reside on the homepage.

Sketch out the general layout that your client wants.

QUESTION 14 OF 36

Your client is not sure they want a responsive design for their website. What might you tell them to help them decide a responsive design is a good choice?

A responsive design can save time and money.Correct Answer

A responsive design will have smaller, simpler navigation on every device.

A responsive design is easier to design than a standard design.

A responsive design can use more buttons and navigation points than a standard design.

QUESTION 15 OF 36

Which elements are commonly used when scaling down digital real estate to smaller screens? Select all that apply.

Lists

CarouselsCorrect Answer

Hamburger menusCorrect Answer

CardsCorrect Answer

QUESTION 16 OF 36

A friend, who is not a designer, asks you why you are spending time on wireframes. What might you tell them?

Wireframes are a solid deliverable that clients always want to see.

Wireframes are required by clients so they can see the design progress.

Wireframes are inexpensive and allow for lots of iterations.Correct Answer

Wireframes give the client good insight into the final look and feel.

QUESTION 17 OF 36

Which features are important to include in your wireframes to ensure that people using assistive technology have a great user experience? Select all that apply.

Icons

HeadingsCorrect Answer

Initial focusCorrect Answer

LandmarksCorrect Answer

QUESTION 18 OF 36

You are designing an app for pet care. You have used the same shapes in your wireframes to denote cats (diamonds), dogs (stars), and rabbits (ovals). Which Gestalt Principle have you used?

SimilarityCorrect Answer

Variety

Common region

Proximity

QUESTION 19 OF 36

Which wireframe features provide visual hierarchy and support navigation for users of screen readers? Select all that apply.

Alt text

Menus

HeadingsCorrect Answer

LandmarksCorrect Answer

QUESTION 20 OF 36

You are finished with your wireframes and are thinking about getting rid of them. A colleague has advised you to keep them and add them to your portfolio. Why should you add wireframes to your portfolio?

They may be useful if you need to make adjustments to your design.

They are unique and part of your intellectual property for the project.

They help showcase your full design process.Correct Answer

They may provide you a template for future projects.

QUESTION 21 OF 36

You have designed a responsive website for your client. They have given you a lot of photos to include on the site. Which element would you use on the website to accommodate a lot of pictures?

Tabs

Hotspots

CarouselCorrect Answer

Accordions

QUESTION 22 OF 36

Your client has asked you to design a website that is responsive. What does that mean?

The layout changes depending on the device and size of the screen.Correct Answer

The screen reader capability is enabled and ready to respond to user prompts.

The size of the layout flexes and shrinks depending on the amount of content and the size of graphics.

The shading and contrast on the website change depending on the environment they are viewed in.

QUESTION 23 OF 36

You’re designing a website. So far, you’ve found out about your users from empathy interviews, you’ve defined the problem to solve, and you’ve started the ideation process. What might be your next action?

Build the website based on what you know and see how the users react.

Pass on the project to the engineers and let them build it based on the information you’ve gathered.

Ask for more time so you can create the final product.

Create wireframes that will act as the blueprint for the website.Correct Answer

QUESTION 24 OF 36

You are looking at a website that uses content tags and has search functionality. What type of website is this?

DatabaseCorrect Answer

Sequential

Hierarchical

Matrix

QUESTION 25 OF 36

You are working on the information architecture for an app you are designing. What element do you need to understand to effectively create a user flow?

The organization’s style guide

Colors and typography

Project timelines and scope

The target usersCorrect Answer

QUESTION 26 OF 36

You would like to use Gestalt Principles in your wireframes. Which of the Gestalt Principles are relevant to wireframes? Select all that apply.

Color-coding

Common regionCorrect Answer

SimilarityCorrect Answer

ProximityCorrect Answer

QUESTION 27 OF 36

You are satisfied with your paper wireframes and are ready to move to digital wireframes. What elements should you consider before transitioning from paper to digital wireframes? Select all that apply.

Timing

Visual elements and contentCorrect Answer

Feedback from peersCorrect Answer

Layout ideasCorrect Answer

QUESTION 28 OF 36

What type of menu is commonly used when designing for smaller screens and devices?

Vertical sidebar menu

Hamburger menuCorrect Answer

Drop-down menu

Top horizontal navigation menu

QUESTION 29 OF 36

You are designing a website that leads users step-by-step toward a specific goal. Which type of website structure is this?

SequentialCorrect Answer

Database

Hierarchical

Matrix

QUESTION 30 OF 36

You are in the wireframing stage for an app you are designing. What should be included in your wireframes?

Navigation menu

Stock photos and icons

Simple shapesCorrect Answer

Topic headers and content

QUESTION 31 OF 36

You have created a website that has a lot of content and images on it. The feedback you get from colleagues is that they have experienced cognitive overload. What can you do to remedy this situation?

Remove the images and use bulleted lists to deliver the content.

Gather additional user feedback to determine if your colleagues are correct.

Change the screen dimension you have designed for.

Review the website to determine which content could be removed to declutter the website.Correct Answer

QUESTION 32 OF 36

During a conversation with one of your colleagues, you mention that you are using Gestalt Principles in your wireframes. Your colleague doesn’t understand why you would spend the time to use those principles at this early wireframing stage. What would you tell them?

The Gestalt Principles help outline the site navigation, taking into consideration usability and accessibility.

The Gestalt Principles help inform on word count, syntax, and font type that is best for accessibility purposes.

The Gestalt Principles help with organization and provide insight into how users group items, recognize patterns, and simplify complex images.Correct Answer

The Gestalt Principles examine color and shading and provide insight into accessibility considerations.

QUESTION 33 OF 36

The responsive website that you are designing is fairly small and has less than 100 pages. What kind of sitemap would you use for this website size?

A deep sitemap

A narrow sitemap

A flat sitemapCorrect Answer

A wide sitemap

QUESTION 34 OF 36

A colleague inquires as to where you are in the design process for an app you’re designing. You tell them you are working on the information architecture. What does this mean?

You are designing the content that will be included in the app.

You are sketching the initial drawings for the app.

You are identifying content to help users understand where they are in the app.Correct Answer

You are making connections and adding navigation to the app.

QUESTION 35 OF 36

Which types of screens should a website be able to adapt to if it’s built with responsive design?

Desktop and tablets

Only desktops, tablets, and mobile phonesCorrect Answer

Mobile phones and smartwatches

All types of screens

QUESTION 36 OF 36

You are in the beginning stages of designing an app and need to create a clear organizational structure. What should you create first?

Sketches

The information architectureCorrect Answer

Mockups

The sitemap

Ready to test your recall?

What is the primary purpose of responsive web design?

Allows a website to change automatically depending on the size of the device

Helps researchers make more informed design decisions

Allows designers to more easily test web design prototypes

Organizes, categorizes, and structures a website

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