How to Build Your First UX Design From Start to Finish Pt.2: Ideate, Prototype, & Test

Question 1

What is the SCAMPER method?

Answer 1

It helps you generate ideas for new products and services by encouraging you to ask seven different types of questions, which will help you understand how you can innovate and improve existing products, services, problems and ideas.

Question 2

What does SCAMPER stand for?

Answer 2

Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify (Also magnify and minify), Put to another use , Eliminate, and Reverse.

Question 3

How do you use the SCAMPER method?

Answer 3

First, take an existing product or service. It could be an existing product, service or idea which you want to improve or which could be a great starting point for future development.
Then, simply go down the list and ask questions regarding each of the seven elements. Please see our step-by-step guide below.
Apply the questions to values, benefits, services, touch points, product attributes, pricing, markets and essentially any other related aspect you might be able to think of that has relevance to your ideation needs.
Look at the answers that you came up with. Do any of the answers stand out as viable solutions? Could you use any of them to create a new product, or develop an existing one?
Take the good ideas and explore them further.

Question 4

SCAMPER is a _____ thinking technique which challenges the status quo and helps you explore new possibilies.

Answer 4

Lateral thinking technique

Question 5

The Scamper method helps you understand how to

Answer 5

innovate and improve existing products, services, problems and ideas

Question 6

The overall question to ask yourself when you want to “Eliminate” is:

Answer 6

What can I eliminate or simplify in my product, process, design, or service?

Question 7

What are some several purposes for using analogies?

Answer 7

1. It’s a great way to build empathy with users
2. To synthesize and define information
3. To generate new ideas around a problem
4. Gain a fresh way of looking at en environment

Question 8

What is a great analogy you can ask a client when they are confused about the pricing that goes into web design?

Answer 8

How much would it cost to build a house?

It requires a hard work of research, planning, conceptualizing, sketching, design and then coding the website will require

Question 9

What does it mean when designers say: all design is re-design

Answer 9

By that they mean that you can borrow ideas from elsewhere, and you can build on others’ ideas and remix them into new formats and combinations.

Question 10

How do you use analogies?

Answer 10

1. art by extracting attributes of your problem scenario and see if you can make connections with scenarios, systems, spaces, or objects where these attributes already exist.
2. Look towards nature: Look for similar objects, systems, scenarios, and creatures and their behaviours.
3. Look towards an industry completely unrelated to yours.
4. Look for specific people you could interview about these analogous scenarios, systems, objects or spaces, or how you might do a quick observation.
5. Use brainstorming or brainwriting methods to help the team come up with analogies.
6. Create an analogous inspiration board: Create a board of quotes, photos and key insights from your analogous space, scenario, system or object. This will help your team share inspiration and help keep the analogous insights in mind later in the process.

Question 11

What is biomimicry?

Answer 11

learning from natural systems towards problem solving, essentially copying or borrowing from nature and building this into new technology.

Question 12

Henry ford’s assembly line was inspired by

Answer 12

observing systems within slaughterhouses and grain warehouses.

Question 13

What is an analogy?

Answer 13

Comparison between two things.

Question 14

An analogy specifically helps you:

Answer 14

To empathize with your users, to generate ideas, to solve ill-structured problems, and to define problems by finding inspiration in seemingly unrelated fields by comparing your problem with their problem and solutions.

Question 15

Getting better and starting well in the context of iterative prototyping means:

Answer 15

You should start with the best possible design and a deep knowledge of your users to iterate well.

Question 16

How do you start off right in prototyping?

Answer 16

1. You need to start with the right kind of system
2. You need a very good starting point
3. You need to understand what’s wrong
4. You need a really rich understanding of your users, the nature of the design, the nature of the technology you are using
5. When you evaluate things with people you need to try and really deeply understand what’s going on with them in order to actually make things better.
6. You always need to iterate
7. Most crucial part is understanding your users

Question 17

Paper prototyping can be produced at a

Answer 17

very early stage. It is very easy to create and modify.

and its intimidating to users because they can sense that you are just trying things out.

Question 18

What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative research?

Answer 18

Quantitative data is information about quantities, and therefore numbers, and qualitative data is descriptive, and regards phenomenon which can be observed but not measured, such as language.

Question 19

Quantitative evaluation focuses on…?

Answer 19

“What is true?”

Question 20

What does expert or heuristic evaluations rely on?

Answer 20

The experience and expertise of the evaluator

Question 21

Heuristics are rules of thumb based on

Answer 21

good practice and known problems in design