Capitals
USA
Washington, D.C.
Which animal is the biggest on earth?
The blue whale
In what technique is a functionality evaluated by testing with representative users?
Usability testing
Who won the Women's football World Cup in 2023?
Spain
A type of research focused less on numbers and more on participant narratives.
Qualitative research.
Australia
Canberra
What is typical of succulents and cacti?
They can store water
A detailed description of an imaginary person that provides a shared understanding of the user of a system is called...
Persona
Who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023?
Sweden
(Tattoo Loreen)
A method where you use sticky notes to categorize participants' brainstorming ideas for a design.
Affinity diagram
Marokko
Rabat
Is Oslo part of the "wolf zone" ("forvaltningssone for ynglende ulv", i.e. where wolves are allowed to live)?
Yes
The ideal number of users when patterns begin to emerge and repeat are...
5
Who was Time's Person of the Year 2023?
Taylor Swift
Which pop cultural American is not running for Republican President of the United States after all?
Ye (fka Kanye West)
Senegal
Dakar
hermaphrodite
This UXer was the first to have the acronym UX in his job title. He also worked at Apple for a few years in the early 1990s
Don Norman
How many times did the Norwegian Central Bank raise the interest rate in 2023?
6 times
(From 2,75% to 4,5%. Directly from 3,25% to 3,75% in June)
Google launched its AI chatbot in 2023. What was it called?
Bard.
At launch, Google tweeted a demo of the AI chat service in which the prompt read, "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?" Bard replied: "JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system." People quickly noticed that the output response was factually incorrect.
Eritrea
Asmara
What are cryptogames?
Plants or plantlike organisms (such as a fern, moss, alga, or fungus) reproducing by spores and not producing flowers or seed
A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve or satisfy human needs or wants and to narrow down the possible solutions to one final choice is called...
Design process
What was India's estimated population mid-2023?
(+- 20 millions is considered correct)
India's population by mid-year is estimated at 1.4286 billion, against 1.4257 billion for China
Who was fired — and then rehired — during five days of turmoil OpenAI in November 2023?
Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman