User Experience Design
Healthcare
Human Factors Research
Foodies
100

This research method involves observing users in their natural environment.

What is ethnographic research?

100

This law protects patient information, confidentiality, availability, and integrity in the United States.

What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?

100

This field combines psychology and design to ensure products match human abilities and limitations.

What is human factors?

100

This sweet, chewy, tea-based drink is slurped through a fat straw.

What is boba?

200

In the 90s, if you had a question while working in Microsoft Office, you could ask questions to this rather unhelpful little guy.

Who is Clippy?

200

This usability measure looks at how many people can complete a task successfully on a first attempt.

What is task success rate?

200

This popular Asian dessert is made of pounded glutinous rice filled with a sweet filling.

What is mochi?

300

This principle or rule explains why the majority of the features of a product or user interface are utilized by a minority of you users.

What is the Pareto Principle (or 80/20 rule)?

300

This evaluated method compares an interface against established usability principles like Nielsen's heuristics.

What is heuristic evaluation?

300

Darjeeling, matcha, and Liptons all come from this East Asian plant.

What is Camellia sinensis (the tea plant)?

400

When conducting usability testing with five users, a team can expect to find this percentage of usability problems?

What is 85%?

400

This term describes designing systems that naturally guide users toward correct actions without needing explicit instructions.

What is affordance-based design?

400

This chemical reaction explains why toasted bread, roasted coffee, and seared meat all smell so irresistible.

What is the Maillard reaction?

500

This popular Indian snack, often eaten during Diwali, consists of hollow, crisp shells filled with spiced potatoes, chickpeas, or lentils, and is enjoyed by dipping the shell into tangy tamarind water.

What is pani puri?