Clients
Design
Meeting Etiquette
Industry Jargon
Heuristics and UX laws
100

With a furry animal as the mascot, this client sells orange chicken

Who is Panda Express?

100

The term for the spacing between letters or characters in a piece of text to be printed.

What is Kerning?

100

The action of not allowing sounds to be broadcasted.

What is muting?

100

The term for a low-fidelity representation of a user interface, used to demonstrate the layout and functionality of a design

What are wireframes?

100

This heuristic indicates that the design should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within a reasonable amount of time.

What is visibility of system status?

200

With more than 15,000 locations in North America, this client has more branch offices throughout the United States than any other brokerage firm in the country.

Who is Edward Jones?

200

This concept is used as a way to reference what is visible on the webpage without scrolling.

What is 'above the fold'?

200

This is a message that a short unnecessary meeting could have been.

What is an email? (ping, slack, teams chat, etc. will also be accepted as a valid answer)

200

These are the small, subtle design elements that provide feedback, guidance, or visual delight to users while using a product.

What are microinteractions? 

200

This concept describes how long it takes a user to hit a target in a graphical user interface (GUI) or other design, as a function of size and distance.

What is Fitt's Law?

300

The name of the Schnucks' mascot

Who is Henry?

300

The relative lightness or darkness of a color.

What is value?

300

The action of respectfully indicating you have an idea or thought you would like to share to the group while someone else is speaking.

What is raising your hand/finger?

300

The acronym 'WCAG' stands for this.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

300

This concept refers to the idea that information required to use the design should be visible or easily retrievable when needed. 

What is recognition rather than recall?

400

The sport team that Wing Stop sponsors

Who are the Dallas Mavericks?

400

The name of the iterative and human-centered approach to problem-solving that involves empathizing with users, defining the problem, ideating, prototyping, and testing.

What is Design Thinking?

400

The concept for restating or paraphrasing someone's words to display a level of understanding and active engagement in the conversation.

What is reflective listening?

400

This term refers to the visual or textual cues provided to users that indicate the relevance or likelihood of finding desired information in a particular area.

What is Information Scent?

400

This concept refers to how the time a user takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choice available.

What is Hick's law?

500

This client has a celebrity endorsement deal with this actor who is known for playing a father who is a sleazy car salesman in a popular family film.

Who is Jersey Mikes and Danny DeVito?

500

This design concept encapsulates the idea of interface objects mimicking or representing their real-world counterparts.

What is Skeuomorphism?

500

This company was founded in 1995 and was bought by Cisco Systems in this year.

What is Webex and When is 2007?

500

This is the unit of measurement that represents the font size of the root element.

What is REM?

500

This concept describes how the average person can only keep this number (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.

What is Miller's Law? What is 7?