SMAD 203 UX Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Describe what Steve Krug means by, "Don't Make Me Think."
- Correct Answers ✅don't make users ask questions, things
should be intuitive Define "self-evident" as it relates to Krug's first law of usability. Know why this concept is important and what to do if you cannot make a page self-evident. - Correct Answers ✅the goal is obvious, you don't have to think, it has been made evident What is a convention? Why is it important to use conventions? - Correct Answers ✅i.e. clicking on a logo on a website takes you back to the homepage, make things consistent, things like the homepage, clicking on buttons should have consistency Identify appropriate scenarios to use the F pattern and Z pattern of eye scanning and how to apply each to a web page for effective information architecture. - Correct Answers ✅F is better for larger quantities of text, left to right and goes to next line, loses effectiveness as you go down Z is better for smaller text, calls to action, know which points have important information, bottom right is most important, top right is second most important, top left is logo/site id 1 / 2
SMAD 203 UX Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) What is a persona? Why should you use personas? - Correct Answers ✅never an actual person, collection of traits that fall into patterns, secondary traits of everyone you interviewed become secondary persona, never exactly like someone you interviewed What is goal directed design? - Correct Answers ✅designing around a set of user stories Identify good practices in creating effective visual hierarchies.
- Correct Answers ✅priorities visualized, what's 1st, 2nd,
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3rd most important, Define and differentiate between site IDs, taglines, mottos, instructions, happy talk, and welcome blurbs, and identify which are important for effective usability and which should be eliminated or minimized. - Correct Answers ✅site ID - logo tagline - quick phrase describing what something is about, located by logo, provide concrete info instructions - only when necessary, should be minimal happy talk - can eliminate w no negative impact motto - i.e. being the change (for jmu), marketing related, welcome blurbs - get rid of them