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Foundations of UX Design Flashcards

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Accessibility

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The design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities

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Advertising agencies

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Teams of creatives hired by clients to build marketing campaigns

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Alternative text (alt text)

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Text that helps translate something visual, such as an image or graph, into a description that can be read by screen readers

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Interviews

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A research method used to collect in-depth information on people’s opinions, thoughts, experiences, and feelings

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Apprenticeships

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Provides on-the-job training to help people develop real skills

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Assets

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Everything from the text and images to the design specifications, like font style, color, size, and spacing

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Assistive technology

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Any products, equipment, or systems that enhance learning, working, and daily living for people with disabilities.

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Bias

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Favoring or having prejudice against something based on limited information

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Brand Identity

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The visual appearance and voice of a company

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Call-to-action (CTA)

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A visual prompt that tells the user to take action, like to click a button

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Color modification

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Features that increase the contrast of colors on a screen, like high-contrast mode or dark mode

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Confirmation Bias

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Occurs when you start looking for evidence to prove a hypothesis you have

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Define

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The phase of Design Thinking that involves leveraging the insights gained during the empathize phase to identify the problem you’ll solve with your design

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Design Agency

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A one-stop shop for the look of brands, products, and services

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Design Research

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Answers the question: How should we build it?

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Design Sprint

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A time-bound process, with five phases typically spread over five full 8-hour days. The goal of design sprints is to answer critical business questions through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users

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Design Thinking

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A UX design framework that focuses on the user throughout all five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

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Digital Literacy

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A user’s level of ability related to using digital information and technologies

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Empathize

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The phase of Design Thinking that involves getting to know your user through research

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Empathy

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The ability to understand someone else’s feelings or thoughts in a situation

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Equality

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Providing the same amount of opportunity and support

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Equity-focused design

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Designing for groups that have been historically underrepresented or ignored when building products

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False consensus bias

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The assumption that others will think the same way as you do

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Foundational research

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Answers the questions: What should we build? What are the user problems? How can we solve them?

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Framework

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Creates the basic structure that focuses and supports the problem you’re trying to solve

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Freelancers:

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Designers who work for themselves and market their services to businesses to find customers

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Generalist

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A UX designer with a broad number of responsibilities

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Graphic designers

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Create visuals that tell a story or message

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Ideate

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The phase of Design Thinking that involves brainstorming all potential solutions to the user’s problem

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Ideation

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The process of generating a broad set of ideas on a given topic, with no attempt to judge or evaluate them

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Implicit bias

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The collection of attitudes and stereotypes you associate with people without your conscious knowledge

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Inclusive design

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Making design choices that take into account personal identifiers like ability, race, economic status, language, age, and gender

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Information architecture

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The framework of a website or how it’s organized, categorized, and structured

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Insight

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An observation that helps you understand the user or their needs from a new perspective

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Interaction designers

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Focus on designing the experience of a product and how it functions

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Iterate

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Revise the original design to create a new and improved version

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Iteration

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Doing something again, by building on previous versions and making tweaks

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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Critical measures of progress toward an end goal

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Motion designers

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Think about what it feels like for a user to move through a product

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Platform

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The medium that users experience your product on

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Post-launch research

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Answers the question: Did we succeed?

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Primacy bias

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Remembering the first user more than others

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Primary research

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Research you conduct yourself

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Product

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A good, service, or feature

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Production designers

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Make sure first and final designs match in the finished project materials and that the assets are ready to be handed off to engineering team

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Prototype

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An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality

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Qualitative research

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Focuses observations on why and how things happen

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Quantitative research

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Focuses on data that can be gathered by counting or measuring

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Prototype

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An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality

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Qualitative research

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Focuses observations on why and how things happen

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Quantitative research

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Focuses on data that can be gathered by counting or measuring

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Recency bias

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Most easily remembering the last thing you heard

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Responsive web design

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A design approach that allows a website to change automatically depending on the size of the device

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Retrospective

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A collaborative critique of the team’s design sprint

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Screen reader

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Software that reads aloud any on-screen text, interactive elements, or alternative text

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Secondary research

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Research that uses information someone else has put together

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Startup

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A new business that wants to develop a unique product or service and bring it to market

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Sunk cost fallacy

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The idea that the deeper we get into a project we’ve invested in, the harder it is to change course

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Surveys

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An activity where many people are asked the same questions in order to understand what most people think about a product

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Switch device

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An assistive technology device that replaces the need to use a computer keyboard or a mouse

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Test

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The phase of Design Thinking that involves facilitating and observing user tests with your design prototypes

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T-shaped designer

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A designer who specializes in one kind of user experience (e.g., interaction, visual, motion) and has a breadth of knowledge in other areas

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Universal design

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The process of creating one product for users with the widest range of abilities and in the widest range of situations

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Usability study

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A technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users

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User

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Any person who uses a product

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User-centered design

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Puts the user front-and-center

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User experience

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How a person, the user, feels about interacting with, or experiencing, a product

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UX engineers

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Translate the design’s intent into a functioning experience

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UX program managers

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Ensure clear and timely communication so that the process of building a useful product moves smoothly from start to finish

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UX research

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Understand users and learn about their backgrounds, demographics, motivations, pain points, emotions, and life goals

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UX researchers

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A type of researcher that conducts studies or interviews to learn about the users of a product and how people use a product

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UX writers

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Create the language that appears throughout a digital product, like websites or mobile apps

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Visual designers

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Focus on how the product or technology looks

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Voice control

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Allows users to navigate and interact with the buttons and screens on their devices using only their voice

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Wireframe

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An outline or a sketch of a product or a screen

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UX researchers

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A type of researcher that conducts studies or interviews to learn about the users of a product and how people use a product

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UX writers

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Create the language that appears throughout a digital product, like websites or mobile apps

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Specialist

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A designer who dives deep into one particular type of user experience, like interaction design, visual design, or motion design

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Sprint Brief

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A document that you share with all your attendees to help them prepare for the sprint

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Prototype

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An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality

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Confirmation Bias

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Occurs when you start looking for evidence to prove a hypothesis you have

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