UX Design Flashcards
Which careers are there within the UX Design Branche?
Interaction designer, motion designer, visual designer, VR/AR designer, UX researcher, UX writer, UX program manager, UX engineer, conversation designer
What are the most common UX Tools?
Sketch, Freehand, Zeplin, Adobe XD and Figma
What is the product development life cycle?
Every new product, digital or physical object, follows a specific set of steps from the idea until the release of the final product.
What are the five stages of the product development life cycle?
brainstorm, define, design, test and launch
What happens during the brainstorm phase?
The team starts thinking of an idea for a product and comes up with a list of user problems
What happens during the define phase?
The team narrows the focus of the idea. Who is it for? What will it do? What features does it include?
What happens during the design phase?
UX designers start drawing wireframes or sketches of the product, then move on to creating prototypes.
What happens during the test phase?
UX designers work with engineers to develop a functional prototype that match the original design, features and company’s brand. Includes writing the code and finalize the overall structure of the product.
What happens during the launch phase?
The product is released in to the market, like play store or app store (apps), a website or putting physical product in a store. Marketing professionals start to
What are the characteristics of a good user experience?
It should be usable, equitable, enjoyable and useful
When is a product equitable?
The design is helpful to people with diverse abilities and backgrounds.
What are the responsibilities of a ux designer?
User research, Information architecture, Wireframing, prototyping, Visual design, Effective communication
What is information architecture?
Information architecture, or IA for short, involves deciding how your product is organized and structured.
What is wireframing?
A wireframe is a basic outline or sketch of a product or a screen, like an app or website.
What is prototyping?
A prototype is an early model of a product that demonstrates its functionality.
What is visual design?
Visual design focuses on how the product or technology looks.
What is a specialist designer?
A specialist dives deep into one type of UX design, like interaction, visual, or motion design, and becomes an expert. Specialist UX designers are more common at large companies.
What is a generalist designer?
A generalist has a broad number of responsibilities.
What is a T-shaped designer?
A T-shaped designer is a specialist who also has a lot of capabilities in other areas.
What is a cross-functional team?
Cross functional teams are groups of people from various departments in an organization—such as marketing, product development, quality assurance, sales and finance—who work together to achieve a common goal.
What is universal design?
UX Design that targets a broad range of people with variety of abilities. A one size-fits-all approach.
What is inclusive design?
UX Design that include people’s ability, race, economic status, language, age and gender. You solve for one type of user and it benefits many others.
What is equity-focused design?
UX Design that targets people that have been historically excluded in the past.
What is cross platform?
That software works on various devices such as desktop, laptop, mobile, tablets, smart watches, tv and smart displays
What are the key considerations for designing for different platforms?
Screen size, Interaction, Content Layout, Functinality
What is assistive technology?
AT for short, is used to describe any products, equipment and systems that enhance learning, working and daily living for people with disabilities.
What are methods of assistive technology?
Color modification, voice controls, switch devices, screen readers, alternative text
What is brand identity?
The visual appearance and voice of a company?
What is call-to-action (CTA)?
A visual prompt that tells the user to take action, like to click a button
What is digital literacy?
A user’s level of ability related to using digital information and technologies
What is ideation?
The process of generating a broad set of ideas on a given topic, with no attempt to judge or evaluate them
What is iteration?
Revise the original design to create a new and improved version
What is a framework?
It’s a conceptual tool that provide guidance on the bet practices and processes for solving problems and building solutions that solve the problems of users
What are business requirements?
Goals and parameters of the company. They describe the users they want to target, outcomes they want to achieve, vision for the designs final look and functionality
Business parameters describe what?
Project’s budget, timeline and scope. Specific tools and systems that designers must use or design for. Requirements and standards they must meet.
What are some methods for empathizing with users?
Questionnaires/surveys, In-person interviews, phone interviews, video interviews
What are empathy maps?
An empathy map is a collaborative visualization used to articulate what we know about a particular type of user
What are User personas?
A user persona is a fictional, generalized representation of the ideal target audience for your product or service. They capture the behavior, goals, needs, and characteristics of a particular demographic and segment to which a product or service caters
What is HMW?
HMW stands for “How Might We …?”. It is an analytical technique that relies on actionable questions asked from a particular point of view on a specific problem.
What is rapid sketching?
Rapid sketching in architecture refers to the technique of quickly sketching ideas, concepts, and designs on paper.
What are competitive audits?
A structured way to identify and research your competitors.
What is SCAMPER?
A technique designers used to brainstorm. Stands for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, Rearrange.
What is low fidelity (lo-fi) and high fidelity (hi-fi) prototype?
Low fidelity prototype closely match a design by the look and the feel of a final product. Designers use to test on this one more before moving on to a high fidelity prototype
What is retrospective in ux design?
A collaborative technique of the team’s design sprint
What is design sprint?
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 though designing, prototyping and testing ideas with users
What is a Sprint Brief?
A document that you share with all your attendees to help them prepare for the sprint
What are some best practices to follow when conducting usability testing during the test phase?
Test your prototype with real people who represent your user.
Observe, listen, and take notes while the user completes the tasks.
Analyze the usability testing results.
How do design sprint retrospectives help a team address areas for improvement?
Retrospectives ensure the team has sufficient resources and tools to do better next time.
Why are Design sprints are important?
Design sprints are an effective, time-saving method that focuses on users to define the solution to a problem.
In which of the following situations would a design sprint be an effective tool to utilize?
When there is a need for rapid iteration and prototyping to test and validate ideas within a short timeframe
What is A/B testing?
A research method that evaluates and compares two different aspects of a product to discover which of them is most effective.
What is Cafe or guerrilla studies?
A research method where user feedback is gathered by taking a design or prototype into the public domain and asking passersby for their thoughts.
What is Card sorting?
research method that instructs study participants to sort individual labels written on notecards into categories that make sense to them.
What are intercepts?
A research method that gathers on-site feedback from users as they engage in the activities being researched.
What are methods to use to conduct post-launch research?
- A/B Testing
- Usability studies
- Survey
- Logs analysis
