Tools/Techniques
To edit the edges of a photo or remove unwanted parts, ________________________ is a tool often used in the design process.
What is crop tool?
To resize an image without losing clarity, it's better to work with a ___________________ image, as it retains its quality no matter the size.
What is a vector?
Explain the Fair Use law
What is allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission for education, commentary, criticism, news, or parody.
A set of characters designed with a consistent style.
What is Typeface?
__________ is when a company tries to reach the entire market with one marketing message, rather than tailoring it to specific groups.
What is mass marketing?
A linear, step-by-step approach. Best for projects with well-defined requirements
What is waterfall design process?
Creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works.
What is intellectual property?
A hexadecimal code that specifies a certain color.
______________________ refers to the arrangement and style of text in a design project, which helps in delivering a visual message.
Explain public domain
What is work is free to use by anyone without restrictions. This applies to expired copyrights or works explicitly released into the public domain.
What is serif?
A document that is used to show a human being is giving permission to have one's likeness used in a project.
What is model release?
Repeats cycles of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining. Helps improve the design over multiple changes based on feedback.
What is iterative design?
A legal right that grants creators exclusive use and distribution of their work
What is copyright?
A designer needs to organize multiple components of a digital ad (images, text, logos) so they can edit them independently.
What is structure with layer groups?
The lightness or darkness of a color.
What is shade/tint or value?
Explain creative commons
What are licenses that allow creators to grant specific permissions for use?
Fonts without small strokes at the ends of letters.
What is sans-serif?
A document that states what is allowed to be filmed and used from a location.
What is location release?
Focuses on users’ needs, behaviors, and experiences. Involves user research, persona development, usability testing, and iterative improvements.
What is user-centered design?
Protect the creator’s personal and reputational connection to their work.
What is Moral Rights?
A designer wants to apply a color adjustment to a design but doesn’t want to alter the original image data. What tool would they use?
What is adjustment layers? or What is color balance?
What are analogous colors and how are they used in design?
Explain open source
What is software that is free to use, modify, and share, but terms vary by license (e.g., GPL, MIT, Apache).
Font that mimics cursive handwriting
What is script?
The order in which feedback is given on an aspect of a project.
What is Feedback Loop?
Steps include: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.
What is Design Thinking?
A new work based on or incorporating an existing work.
What is derivative work?
A collection of layers that contain image data from a raster or vector image.
What is a smart object?
The amount of detail in an image, measured in pixels per inch (PPI) or dots per inch (DPI)
What is Resolution?
Explain Attribution
What is free to use, but credit must be given to the creator.
The height of lowercase letters.
What is x-height?
What are the sections of market segmentation?
What is demographic, geographic, psychographic and behavioral?
Focuses on reducing waste, maximizing value, and speeding up the design cycle. Popular in startups.
What is lean design?
Technology used to control access and use of digital content.
What is Digital Rights Management?
A mask to where the contents of one layer show through to another layer.
What is clipping mask?
What are the five major file formats?
What is JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP?
Explain Attribution-ShareAlike.
What is free to use and modify, but must be shared under the same license with credit.
The part of a lowercase letter that extends above the normal height.
What is ascender?
How a product or service is perceived in the market compared to competitors.
What is positioning?
Collaborative and flexible, incorporating user feedback at every stage.
What is Agile Design?
Unauthorized use or violation of intellectual property rights.
A technique that smooths jagged edges in raster images by blending colors.
What is anti-aliasing?
Converting a raster image into a vector format.
What is Vectorization (tracing)?
Explain Attribution-NonCommercial.
What is free to use for non-commercial purposes only, and credit is required.
The part of lowercase letters that extends below the baseline.
What is descender?
If a brand creates different versions of its product for various regions, such as selling winter clothing in colder areas, they are using __________ segmentation.
What is geographic?
Steps include: Discover, define, develop, deliver.
What is Double Diamond Design?
Confidential business information that provides a competitive advantage.
What is trade secret?
A filtering tool that can change the appearance of a person's face.
What is liquify?
A web-friendly vector format using XML.
What is svg?
Explain Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
What is free for non-commercial use, must credit the creator, and must be shared under the same terms.
The vertical space between lines of text
What is leading?
A document or conversation outlining the client's expectations, needs, and requirements for the project.
What is a creative brief?
Focuses on the entire system rather than individual components.
What is systems design process?
Grants exclusive rights to an invention for a certain period.
What is patent?
A mode that combines the effects of a filter over layers.
What is blending mode?
A grid-based image format where each pixel has a defined color.
What is bitmap?
Explain Attribution-NoDerivatives
What is free to share, but cannot be modified, and credit is required.
Adjusting the space between individual letters for better readability.
What is Kerning?
Specific outputs or results that are expected from the project.
What are deliverables?
Different teams (engineering, marketing, manufacturing) work simultaneously.
What is concurrent design?
Information embedded within a file that can contain details like exposure, aperture, creator, date created and more.
What is Metadata?
A tool used to select a color that can then be applied to an object.
What is eyedropper tool?
The range of colors a device can produce, record, and accurately represent in a work.
What is Gamut?
Explain Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
What is free to share only in original form, for non-commercial use, and credit is required.
Adjusting the overall spacing between letters in a block of text.
What is tracking?
Individuals or groups who have an interest or are impacted by the project.
What are stakeholders?
Focuses on eco-friendly materials, energy efficiency, and lifecycle impact.
What is sustainable design?
A strategy that outlines how information will be shared with all project participants and stakeholders.
What is communication plan?
A panel that keeps track of and records all user actions within the program.
What is history panel?
A smooth, curved path controlled by anchor points and direction handles.
What is Bezier Curve?
The alignment of text to both the left and right margins.
The uncontrolled changes or continuous growth in the project's progress without adjustments to time, cost, or resources.
What is scope creep?
The process of editing an image that preserves its original forms.
What is non-destructive editing?