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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
Creates the basic structure that focuses and supports the problem you're trying to solve
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Freelancers:
Designers who work for themselves and market their services to businesses to find customers
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Generalist
A UX designer with a broad number of responsibilities
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Graphic designers
Create visuals that tell a story or message
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Ideate
The phase of Design Thinking that involves brainstorming all potential solutions to the user's problem
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Ideation
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
The collection of attitudes and stereotypes you associate with people without your conscious knowledge
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Inclusive design
Making design choices that take into account personal identifiers like ability, race, economic status, language, age, and gender
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Information architecture
The framework of a website or how it's organized, categorized, and structured
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Insight
An observation that helps you understand the user or their needs from a new perspective
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Interaction designers
Focus on designing the experience of a product and how it functions
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Iterate
Revise the original design to create a new and improved version
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Iteration
Doing something again, by building on previous versions and making tweaks
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Critical measures of progress toward an end goal
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Motion designers
Think about what it feels like for a user to move through a product
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Platform
The medium that users experience your product on
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Post-launch research
Answers the question: Did we succeed?
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Primacy bias
Remembering the first user more than others
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Primary research
Research you conduct yourself
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Product
A good, service, or feature
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Production designers
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
An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality
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Qualitative research
Focuses observations on why and how things happen
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Quantitative research
Focuses on data that can be gathered by counting or measuring
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Prototype
An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality
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Qualitative research
Focuses observations on why and how things happen
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Quantitative research
Focuses on data that can be gathered by counting or measuring
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Recency bias
Most easily remembering the last thing you heard
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Responsive web design
A design approach that allows a website to change automatically depending on the size of the device
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Retrospective
A collaborative critique of the team's design sprint
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Screen reader
Software that reads aloud any on-screen text, interactive elements, or alternative text
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Secondary research
Research that uses information someone else has put together
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Startup
A new business that wants to develop a unique product or service and bring it to market
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Sunk cost fallacy
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
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
An assistive technology device that replaces the need to use a computer keyboard or a mouse
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Test
The phase of Design Thinking that involves facilitating and observing user tests with your design prototypes
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T-shaped designer
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
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
A technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users
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User
Any person who uses a product
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User-centered design
Puts the user front-and-center
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User experience
How a person, the user, feels about interacting with, or experiencing, a product
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UX engineers
Translate the design's intent into a functioning experience
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UX program managers
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
Understand users and learn about their backgrounds, demographics, motivations, pain points, emotions, and life goals
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UX researchers
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
Create the language that appears throughout a digital product, like websites or mobile apps
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Visual designers
Focus on how the product or technology looks
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Voice control
Allows users to navigate and interact with the buttons and screens on their devices using only their voice
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Wireframe
An outline or a sketch of a product or a screen
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UX researchers
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
Create the language that appears throughout a digital product, like websites or mobile apps
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Specialist
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
A document that you share with all your attendees to help them prepare for the sprint
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Prototype
An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality
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Confirmation Bias
Occurs when you start looking for evidence to prove a hypothesis you have

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