User Experience
He is the author of the UX designer's bible, "The Design of Everyday Things"
Who is Don Norman?
He snapped an iconic photo of the Foundation office that can be used as a virtual background.
Who is is Bryan Miller?
These are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.
What are Deceptive / Dark Patterns?
These are a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or an emotion.
What are emojis?
This is a graphical representation of the areas on your product that receive the most user attention that usually use a warm-to-cool color spectrum.
What is a heat map?
How many years is the Foundation celebrating this year for supporting and uplifting the California Community College system?
What is 25 years?
These three colors make up the new California Community Colleges core color palette.
What is dark blue, gold, and dark grey?
This single letter of the alphabet is the rocky rebrand for a company that costed Elon Musk $44 billion dollars.
What is X?
These are clues that tell us what an element can do to us, and help clearly communicate to users what can and cannot be done on a screen (or irl).
What are affordances?
There are 116 of these in California, and we work to help all of them!
What are Community Colleges?
This typeface is used as the California Community College's primary header.
What is Crimson Text?
Harvey Ross Ball is the creator of this multi-million dollar image, and was only paid $45 for the original design.
What is the Smiley Face?
"Recognition over recall" is one of these 10 ______ ______ for Nielson's general principles for interaction design.
What are Usability Heuristics?
The header image on her blog has pictures of her dog that says, "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Who is Chancellor Dr. Sonya Christian?
This company, founded in 2012, made it their mission to make design accessible to all; in 2022, it was revealed that they were acquired by Adobe.
What is Figma?
Milton Glaser, the creator of the iconic I Love New York logo and slogan, was born in this city.
What is New York City?
In the product world, this term doesn't mean "Most Valuable Player."
What is MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
The The Foundation for California Community Colleges is found on this Sacramento street; also the 17th letter of the modern alphabet!
What is Q?
While a typeface describes a particular style of lettering, a ______ refers to variations of a typeface, like its size and weight.
What is a font?
Popular search engine Google is named after a misspelling of this word, which means a very large number written 10100 (1 followed by 100 zeros).
What is a googol?