UX Design Quiz Questions and Answers

Is the following statement true or false?

“Visual Design is about devising grids, laying out pages, choosing colour palettes and developing icons.”

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1. True

2. False

Which of the following best describes Customer Experience (CX)?

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1. It is a set of interdependent relationships between components within an information environment.
2. It encompasses all the interactions a person has with your brand.
3. It is the design of the interaction between the product and the user.
4. It is the process of building communication, people organising, planning and other actions oriented on improving the product quality and the interaction between the service provider and its customers.

Which of the following is NOT one of the ten principles of User Centred Design?

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1. Design for the users and their tasks.
2. Maintain consistency.
3. Use simple and natural dialogue.
4. Use digital objects like buttons with no clear hints about how to use it.
5. Provide adequate feedback.
6. Provide adequate navigation mechanisms.
7. Let the user take charge.
8. Present information clearly.
9. Offer Assistance.
10. Error-free.

Which of the following best describes Usability in relation to a website?

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1. Usability is concerned with how many people can use your website at a time.

2. Usability is concerned with the appearance of your website.

3. Usability is concerned with the ease of use with which a user can interact with your website.

4. Usability is concerned with the length of time it takes for a website page to load.

Which of the following is most important to a UX Designer?

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1. Pleasing the client or boss.
2. Pleasing the end-user.
3. Pleasing their team.
4. Pleasing the stakeholders in the organisation.

Which of the following best describes Affinity Diagramming?

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1. A method used by design teams to organise large amounts of qualitative research data and information into groups so that the data can be analysed.
2. A tool designed to help visualize work, limit work-in-progress, and maximize efficiency.
3. A research method in which study participants group individual labels written on notecards according to criteria that make sense to them.
4. The use of infrared technology to measure the movement and dilation of a person's pupils as they look at a screen.

You are creating a form for a hotel booking system. One field is titled, ‘Select a type of room’ and the possible answers are ‘Single’, ‘Double’ and ‘Twin’. What would be the correct user interface control to accept responses?

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1. A set of radio buttons
2. A set of checkboxes
3. A free text field
4. A drop down menu

What are the benefits of low-fidelity prototypes?

1. They can be used to design user interface animations.
2. They encourage the design team to explore alternative designs.
3. They can be tested and refined quickly.
4. They can be used to assess technical feasibility before any code is written.
5. They can be developed by non-programmers.

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1. 2, 3 and 4 only
2. 2, 3 and 5 only
3. 1, 2 and 5 only
4. 1, 4 and 5 only

Which of the following has the most significant impact on determining the usability of a system?

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1. Creating a user interface that is visually attractive.
2. Understanding users and their needs.
3. Ensuring the design is responsive on different platforms.
4. Creating comprehensive help and documentation

Is the following statement true or false?

“Inclusive Design involves developing products, services or environments so as many people as possible can access and use them.”

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1. True
2. False

What are the components of the context of use?

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1. Users, UX vision and testing.
2. Users, environments and tasks.
3. Users, personas and key performance indicators (KPIs).
4. Users, prototyping and testing.

Which of the following best describes a User Persona?

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1. A fictional or prototypical individual used to represent the demographics, goals, values and pain points of a large proportion of a product's user group.
2. A collection of behaviours, characteristics and goals which belong to an actual group of users.
3. A description of a single user’s behaviour and personality.
4. The behaviours, characteristics and goals which the UX Designer hopes from a group of users.

A UX Design process is implemented…

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1. Just at the beginning of a project, when coming up with the initial plan.
2. When graphics or photographs are required.
3. Before, during, and after a project, then repeated as many times as necessary.
4. When wireframes are needed for a project.

Which standard published by the International Organization for Standardization addresses the usability of systems?

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1. ISO 9241
2. ISO 9001
3. ISO 2491
4. ISO 1009

Which of the following best describes a User Flow?

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1. A steady stream of customers moving through a site.
2. The user’s journey through a site when trying to complete a task.
3. The amount of time a user spends on a page.
4. The physical movements a user makes to navigate through a website: ie, clicking a mouse, scrolling a sidebar.

Which of the following is NOT an abbreviated form of User Experience Design?

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1. UD
2. XD
3. UXD
4. UED

What is the role of Information Architecture?

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1. To organise all of your information within a physical space.
2. To organise, structure and identify content in a website or other digital environment.
3. To funnel all users into the desired channel of the platform / business.

4. To ensure the ‘buy now’ button is on every page of a website.

When trying to understand user requirements, why is it unsuitable to simply ask people what they want?

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1. Any designs resulting from these interviews will lack originality.
2. User requirements need to be based on organisational goals.
3. People do not have good insight into their needs from a system.
4. User interviews are too complex to analyse in any meaningful way.

Place the following stages of a usability test in order.

1. Recruit users
2. Agree the test objectives
3. Run a pilot test
4. Create task scenarios

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1. 1, 2, 3, 4
2. 2, 1, 4, 3
3. 1, 4, 2, 3
4. 2, 3, 4, 1