Usability
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Team work
Scrum
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100
A process that presents test subjects with a scripted set of tasks, to be performed on a site or prototype.
What is user testing, or usability testing?
100
A visual exploration of the feel, features, and overall vibe of a product or site.
What is a mood board?
100
Design professionals who solve problems with design using user research, user flows, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, content strategy, and many specific design processes.
Who are UX designers?
100
A 2-4 week time in which a Scrum team accepts and develops work, delivering potentially shippable code.
What is a sprint?
100
The area of development that creates what a user sees.
What is front-end development?
200
The person who created the first heuristics for heuristic analysis, sometimes called the father of usability.
Who is Jakob Nielsen?
200
A design style that removes dimension and attempts to avoid metaphors, promoted by Windows and Jony Ive?
What is flat design?
200
UX professionals who conduct user testing, perform industry research, conduct field research/contextual inquiry, and run surveys, among other activities.
Who are UX researchers?
200
A feature description following the template, "As a ____, I want to ____, so that ____."
What is a user story?
200
A visual story of contextualized data
What is an infographic?
300
The UX skill focused on making web sites and apps usable to users such as the blind, deaf, or otherwise atypical users.
What is accessibility?
300
Adjusting the space between letters or characters in a piece of text.
What is kerning?
300
A style of product development characterized by handing off work from one department to another (e.g., product --> design --> development), frequently resulting in lack of communication across teams.
What is waterfall development?
300
An exercise performed at the end of sprints or Scrum/Agile projects to capture lessons learned?
What is a retrospective?
300
An Agile design approach that emphasizes the scientific method and designer ideation.
What is Lean UX?
400
A perceived ability to perform an action.
What is an affordance?
400
Code that styles HTML to layout, color, font, and many other visual details.
What is CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets?
400
A collaborative technique involving quick, simultaneous sketching and sharing, designed to better share ideas and achieve team consensus.
What is design studio?
400
The "single, wringable neck" in a Scrum team.
Who is the Product Owner?
400
A UI approach developed by Google, promoted for Android but useful beyond the mobile context.
What is Material Design?
500
System status awareness, consistency, error prevention, efficiency, minimalist design, help availability and documentation, match between real world and digital world, and user empowerment are elements of this 21-year-old UX tool.
What is heuristic analysis?
500
A controversial school of design that relies on metaphor to create intuitive understanding and affordance.
What is skeuomorphism?
500
The two UX roles that share the task of taxonomy, the skill of identifying/creating and naming categories.
Who are information architects and content strategists?
500
The three core questions of a stand-up.
What are "What have I done?", "What will I do?", and "Do I have any blocks?"
500
The five top brand personality types/descriptors.
What are sincerity, excitement, competence, sophistication, and ruggedness?
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