CIW UID Pre Questions #2

It is time to create a wireframe of your site. How do you begin?

• By writing a list of the objects you want to include in the wireframe.

• By sketching out what your page layout will include.

• By opening a wireframe sketching application on your computer.

• By gathering physical objects such as buttons and color swatches you want to include on your site.

Knowing that mobile-friendly sites rank higher in SEO, you decide to build which of the following to your Web site?

• Optimize page UIs for touchscreen finger gestures

• Block JavaScript as it will cause your page to render slower

• Incorporate Flash into your site to make it appear more relevant

• Program a pop-up to greet users while your site loads in the background

You have been tasked with creating a Web site for a subject on which you know nothing about. Which type of design methodology would you use to overcome this lack of knowledge?

• Participatory design as it allows you to create the site by drawing on actual workers "tacit" knowledge" of the subject

• Scenario-based design as it ensures a product usability by creating stories about how the users will interact with the product

• User-centered design as you may not know the subject but you know what users want from a Web site

• Bottom-up design as it allows you to start with the smaller parts of the Web site and use them to build the overall site as a whole

The CARP visual design principle is an acronym standing for:

• Clear, aligned, realistic, professional

• Contrast, alignment, repetition, proximity

• Contrast, assignment, ratio, proximity

• Contrast, alignment, rhythm, principle

While working within a Web design team you notice that working collaboratively offers which of the following benefits?

• You are allowed to take more time off while your coworkers perform the tasks for which they are responsible

• Participating collaboratively allows you to choose which portions of the Web site project you would like to do and which you would not like to do

• Each collaborator bring a unique set of skills to the team

• Working in this type of environment allows you to compete with your coworkers

While explaining to a coworker that UI design trends are not the same as UI design principles, you state which of the following about UI design trends?

• They remain relevant in their universal applicability to structure, simplicity, visibility and reuse

• They are a compact set of principles to optimize user interface design

• They are guidelines to create long-lasting and aesthetically pleasing sites

• They are subject to fashion and occasionally fall out of style

After drawing conclusions from the data you gathered via user analysis and Web analytics, you need to put these conclusions into practice by using them to optimize the look and feel of your site. Which of the following questions addresses the "feel" of your Web site?

• What is your first impression of the site?

• Is it an attractive site?

• Does its appearance make you confident about its content?

• Can you get a sense of the structure of the site from looking at one of its pages?

The Project Manager asks you where you are going to put the copyright information and terms of use on your Web page. Following a basis Web page layout, you tell him that you are going to put them in the:

• Footer

• Main body

• Header

• Navigational Menu

Which of the following positional awareness techniques gives your users a sense of not only where they are, but how they got to where they are?

• Breadcrumb trails

• Assigning different colors to different sections of your site

• Assigning different backgrounds to different sections of your site

• Including descriptive headings on each page

After running your usability testing you return to your desk and review the quantitative data. Which of the following are you reviewing?

• The time it took users to complete a task and what pages, menus and items they clicked on

• What the subjects said about the look and feel of the site

• How the user behaved during testing

• The users body language and facial expressions during testing