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Ui Test Flashcards

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They are responsible for the more user-centered, behavioral and logical side of design.

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UX Designers

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They may be responsible for the copy and tone of voice of the product.

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UX writers

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These are the people you will be handing your designs over to build and to test

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Developers
QA testers

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Are the areas to the left and the right og the grid that act as a sort of frame for the content on the screen

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Margins

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Are vertical strips between columns

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Gutters

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Spacing slinside columns

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Padding

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A website or app that adjusts it’s appearance depending on the device by altering content hierarchy and layout, size, etc

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Responsive website

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Key Ranges in screen sizes that require particular changes to the layout

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Breakpoints

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Size of columb grids on each device

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12 columns desktop
8 tablet
4 mobile

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Are a set of laws arising from 1920s psychology, describing how humans typically see objects by grouping similar elements, recognizing patterns and simplify complex images. Designers use these via powerful - yet natural tricks of perspective and best practice design standards

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Gestalt principles

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Elements arranged close to each other are perceived as more rated than those placed further apart

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Proximity

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Elements placed within the same region are perceived as being groups of related information

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Chunking

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Visual clues that tell us how a product should be used

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Affordances

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Elements arranged in a line or a soft curve are perceived to be more related than those arranged randomly

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Continuation

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Our brain can perceive a group of elements as a single recognizable form or figure, so icons for example don’t need all the realistic detail to communicate what they are

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Closure

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Are visual clues that tell us how a product should be used

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Affordances

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The ability to present information with different levels of emphasis according to the importance of information

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Visual hierarchy

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18
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Are go to solutions that solve common design problems

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Design patterns

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Are go to solutions that solve common design problems

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Design patterns

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For desktop apps and websites the most common types of navigation are

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Horizontal (top) navigation

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If you face problem with space which navigation you will use for websites?

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Left hand navigation

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If there are different categories and subcategories and sub-sun categories to your navigation, which navigation to use?

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Global and secondary navigation

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Apps that are built specifically for an operating system like ios or android

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Native apps

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Commonly used across many well-known apps like Facebook and Twitter. It allows us to buuble up key sections so users can quickly navigate

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App bar navigation

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This approach hides more detailed navigation in an off-canvas menu when users tap on hamburger or menu icon

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Menu drawers

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Bubbles up key actions that users may frequently take, like creating a calendar or event

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Floating button

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Mixture of navigation

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Blended navigation

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Are commonly used for contextual navigation, especially on website or app that go several layers deep.

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Breadcrumbs

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Are a well-established patterns on the web, especially with e-commerce sites. They’re commonly used in the hero area of sites that want to maximize the screen real estate, and give their content a dynamic feel.

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Sliders/carousels

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Are one of the most well-established patterns in UI design. Uses google

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Search fields

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A common navigational pattern used to display vast amounts of data in a manageable quantity

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Pagination

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Commonly used as a related content label, that can encourage browsing and serve as useful or interesting content for users to interact with

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Tags

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33
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Some sort of movement in and movement out in animations

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Easing

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This is the default state of a form field before any slider interacts with it

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Pristine

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This is the state at which a cursor hovers over a text field

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On hover

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The state that appears on all screen types as it communicates to the user that they have interacted with the form and it’s ready for them to input their data

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Selected/focused

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37
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Is a visual indicator that a UI element is not currently available for interaction

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Disabled state

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38
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Is a useful visual indicator to confirm that users have interacted with a field and that a action has been successful on unsuccessful

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Inline validation

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39
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A common method of selection in Ui. Are an effective control to select or deselect one or more elements

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Checkboxes

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Often used alongside checkboxes, serve as a single selection function

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Radio buttons

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41
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Serve to contain multiple options in a space-efficient way.

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Dropdown lists

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42
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Commonly known as call to actions

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Buttons

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43
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Are a bit like a light switchers. Good pattern to use if something needs to turned on or off

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Toggles

44
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Are a useful device for adding detail or context to a UI element, commonly used to explain things in a UI tat might not be obvious to a user

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Tooltips

45
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Are an effective way to let users know that something is happening in the background.

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Progress indicators

46
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2 fundamental styles of fonts

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Serif and Sans Serif

47
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This font have decorative lines that stick out from the main form of the letter

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Serif

48
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This font have decorative lines that stick out from the main form of the letter

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Serif

49
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This font has clean more geometric lines and lack the extra decoration

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Sans serif

50
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4 most popular fonts

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Opens Sans
Roboto
Lato
Montserrat

51
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Refers to the distinguishing features of the different characters in a font

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Legibility

52
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Refers to the ease at which your eye can scan words and sentences and make sense of them quickly

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Readability

53
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Refers to the ease at which your eye can scan words and sentences and make sense of them quickly

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Readability

54
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Fonts that don’t snatd out

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Modest

55
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Refers to the distance between horizontal lines of text

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Line height

56
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How many characters per line is comfortable to read?

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Around 60

57
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60-30-10 rule?

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One color - generally smt fairly neutral-makes up 60% of the pallette. Another complementary color makes up 30% of the pallette. And then a third color is used as an accent for the remaining 10% of the design

58
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What is the min size for text in UI design?

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14 px

59
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They can help otganize info into consistently sized blocks of content, that can make both designing and developing products much easier

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Grids

60
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Is the height of that particular font’s lower case latter x

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X-height

61
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It determines how big or small a font might look at a particular size

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X-height

62
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How many characters per line is comfortable to read and scan blocks of text?

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60 characters per line

63
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To which colors refers rgb system?

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Red green blue

64
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To what refers hsb system?

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Hue saturation and brifhtness

65
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The more simplified functional icons, commonly used to call out actions, or as navigation to settings or the like

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Product icons

66
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They are simplified graphics with little extra decoration than what’s required to communicate the concept

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Animated icons

67
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Presentational icans, used to add meaning clarity, and visual interest to a page

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Accent icons

68
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These are the sequence for numbers and letters usually 6 digits that references a particular color accurately, dna of the color

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Hex colors

69
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It refers to richness of the color

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Saturation

70
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It refers to the color range

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Hue

71
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It refers to lightness

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Luminosity

72
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It might be used if you wanted a specific color to sit on top of a photo

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Rgb

73
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What include gestalt principles?

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Similarity, proximity, closure

74
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What include gestalt principles?

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Similarity, proximity, closure

75
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It states that items which share a visual characteristic are perceived as more related than items that are dissimilar

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Principle of similarity

76
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Describes how we tend to perceive elements that are placed close to each other

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Proximity

77
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It states that people will fill in blanks to perceive a complete object

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Principle of closure

78
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It states that the eyes tend to follow visual paths and sequences in order to identify relationships between designed elements

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Principle of continuation

79
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The opposite to similarity, which means things standing out from their surrounding elements because they are different

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Anomoly

80
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Objects that are aligned feel like they have sense of order and orderly interfaces are easier to comprehend

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Alignment

81
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By using it is one of the easiest way to bring order to a layout.

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Underlying grid and effective spacing

82
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How to remove room for error in designing in a systematic way?

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Using grids

83
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Objects that look similar are perceived to be more related than other objects, have similar shape, scale, orientation, color they feel related

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Similarity

84
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The opposite to similarity

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Anomoly

85
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The content that is cropped off encourages user to scroll to see more

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Continuation

86
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Useful tool because it saves space and encourages discovery

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Continuation( crop off the content )

87
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It should tell me where I am, where I am going and how do I get there

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Navigation

88
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Name desktop navigation types

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Horizontal(top) navigation
Left hand navigation
Global, secondary, tertiary navigation

89
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Name mobile navigation types

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App bar navigation
Menu drawers(presented as hamburger menu)
Floating action
Blended navigation

90
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This website takes the same code and presents it to the user in different ways depending on a screen size they view it on

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Responsive website

91
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Are apps that are built specifically for an operating system like iOS and android

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Native apps

92
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On what depends mobile navigation

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If the design is responsive or native
If native then which operating system
Complexity of navigation

93
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Is a good speed to aim for most micro-animations

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300 millisecond

94
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Name mobile layouts

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full screen, 50/50, thirds, list views, card views, on boarding screen, mixed layout, profile view

95
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  • Intentional and prepared:
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rational-evidence-effectiveness

96
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Types of critiques

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Silent critique
Regular critique

97
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print out designs on the wall, gather a group of people and give them enough context of what you doing and why. Arm people with post it’s a d give 10 min to silently look at the designs and jot down observations they have about designs.

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Silent critique

98
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Type of critique with more conversational approach to printouts.

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Regular critique

99
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Who invented color-coded visualization for thumb reachability

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Luke Wroblewski

100
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Name input controls

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Check boxes
Radio buttons
Drop down lists
Buttons
Toggles
Date fields

101
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Name navigational patters

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Breadcrumbs
Sliders/carousels
Search fields
Pagination
Tags

102
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Name form field states

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Pristine
Oh hover
Selected/focused
Disabled
In-line validation

103
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Name informational components

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Tooltips
Icons
Progress indicators
Notifications

104
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Name text scanning patterns

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F pattern
Z pattern

105
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What should you think of when choosing the font

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Legibility
Readability
Modesty
Flexibility
Open source

106
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How many men and women have some level of color blindness

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One of 12 men and one of 200 women

107
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What colors you should use for donut chart

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Single color but different shades

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