WDD: Design

Question 1

What should be included when creating an effective user interface when creating a wireframe.

Answer 1

Horizontal navigational bar
Relative horizontal and vertical positioning of the media.
Form inputs
File formats of the media (text, graphics, video, and audio)

Question 2

Multilevel website

Answer 2

A website which can be split into sections, and these sections can be split further into sub-sections creating more levels.

Advantages:

• Reduces clutter on page making finding links easier
• Reduces need to go through many web pages to find the link to the correct page.

Question 3

Low fieldity prototypes

Answer 3

Is used to show the intended user interface for any software product.

• It allows end-users to get the look and feel of a web-site before it is created
• Usually paper based but more detailed than a wireframe, including information content.
• Forms a critical part of usability testing.

Question 4

Personas

Answer 4

Personas are fictional characters created to represent the different user tupes that the design teamss have encountered or that the team beleive are important to the project.

Question 5

User Stories

Answer 5

A user story is a brief statement that identifies the user and his/her need. It is a direct statement that relates to a specific persona.

Question 6

User Scenarios

Answer 6

A user scenario expands upon already developed user stories by including details about how a system might be interpreted, experienced, and used. User scenarios provide detail about the user’s goal, detail any assumed knowledge the user has and the level of experience the user has.

Question 7

User case

Answer 7

A use case is a list of steps a use would take to perform an action.