UX Fundamentals
This tool, commonly used in UX design, allows designers to create interactive prototypes and collaborate with team members.
What is Figma?
This term refers to a detailed representation of a user's interaction with a product from start to finish.
What is a user journey?
We use this standard design system here in which team governs this system to ensure that updates are managed properly.
What is constellation and the VET team?
This UX law states that the more options a user has, the longer it takes to make a decision.
What is Hick's Law?
Myth of Fact: A simple design is always better.
What is a myth? - a simple design is good, but it must also be functional and meet user needs.
While UX focuses on improving the overall user experience with a product, UI focuses on this aspect of the product.
What is the look and feel (or visual design) of the product?
This research method involves reviewing competitor products to identify best practices and areas of improvement.
What is a competitive analysis?
This term refers to small, reusable elements in a design system that form the building blocks of a UI.
What are components?
This UX law states that users prefer interfaces that feel familiar because they expect the product to work similarly to others they've used before.
What is Jakob's Law?
Myth or Fact: Users always want more options.
What is a myth? Too many options can overwhelm users and cause decision paralysis.
In UX design, explain the difference between low-fidelity prototypes and high-fidelity prototypes in terms of detail and functionality.
What are low-fidelity prototypes (basic sketches or wireframes that focus on structure and user flow) and high-fidelity prototypes (detailed and interactive representations that resemble the final product)?
In UX research, these two methods are used to gather user insights - qualitative and quantitative research, define both.
What is qualitative research - descriptive data from interviews, observations, and open-ended feedback?
What is quantitative research - numerical data from surveys, analytics, and performance metrics?
In a design system, these are design tokens that define values like color, typography, and spacing.
What are style variables or variables?
This UX law states that users remember incomplete tasks better than completed ones, which is why progress indicators are effective.
What is the Zeigarnik (Zee - Gar - Nik) Effect?
Myth or Fact: Users need more control of a system to trust it.
What is a fact? - Providing users with control options like undo buttons or settings builds trust.
This person, known as the father of UX, coined the term "user experience" while working at Apple.
Whos is Don Norman?
This research method involves asking users to sort items into categories that make the most sense to them.
What is card sorting?
A component library should include three key details for each component: name, usage guidelines, and this.
What is the design code, design specifications, or design specs?
This UX law emphasizes that users prefer designs that are visually appealing because they assume attractive products are more usable.
What is the aesthetic - usability effect?
Myth or Fact: The best UX designs come from following established design patterns without changes.
What is a myth? - While established patterns are helpful, innovation and iteration are necessary to improve user experience.
This software engineer and usability expert is known for developing the "10 usability heuristics" used in UX design today.
Who is Jakob Nielsen?
In UX, this testing method involves giving users incomplete tasks to see how they attempt to complete them.
What is guerrilla testing?
In atomic design, these three levels build upon one another: atoms, molecules, and organisms. Define each one.
What are atoms - individual UI elements like buttons or input fields? What are molecules - a combination of atoms that create functional components like a search bar? What are organisms - larger, reusable sections of a UI, like a header or form?
What is the serial position effect?
Myth or Fact: Conducting usability tests with just five users can uncover the majority of usability issues.
What is a fact? - Studies show that having a usability test of at least 5 people can show you 85% of the UX issues.