Final Exam

Question 1

Otto Neurath 1930

Answer 1

Topics of political economy and visual education, based on ISOTYPE language

Question 2

Edward Tufte 1982

Answer 2

“The Leonardo da Vinci of Data”

Question 3

ID (information design)

Answer 3

Concerned with transforming data into information, making the complex easier to understand and to use.

Question 4

IA (information architecture)

Answer 4

a specialized skill set which relates to the interpretation of information and expression of distinctions between signs and systems of signs

Question 5

Concept Model

Answer 5

a tool for organizing complex systems and giving visual relationship and content listings to those systems.

Question 6

User Experience (UX)

Answer 6

A concept that places the end-user at the focal point of design and development efforts, as opposed to the system, it’s applications or its aesthetic value alone.

Question 7

Designing Diagrams

Answer 7

Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity

Question 8

isotype

Answer 8

International standard of typographic education

Question 9

icons

Answer 9

System of using symbolic pictures, images, or figures to represent a subject or theme.

Question 10

Problems with content and context

Answer 10

balance the two, keep the concept in perspective, be practical.

Question 11

concept maps

Answer 11

Based on thoughts and feelings. They also help find outliers.

Question 12

components of concept maps

Answer 12

nodes and connectors + groups

Question 13

persona

Answer 13

an imagined user based on research of the potential user through surveys, interviews, ethnographic research, and demographic research

Question 14

benchmarking

Answer 14

a current standard, done in the beginning stages

Question 15

content inventories

Answer 15

for redesigning websites, it tells you if you need to add/remove info

Question 16

Contextual inquiry

Answer 16

observing people in the environment as they interact with the product or service (watching users in another room while they interact with the product)

Question 17

Cognitive walkthrough (4 Questions)

Answer 17

1. Will the users be trying to produce whatever effect the action has?
2. Will users be able to notice that the correct action is avilable?
3. Once users find the correct action at the interface, will they know that it is the right one for the effect they are trying to produce?
4. After the action is taken, will users understand the feedback they get?