CIW Prep Questions 4

Three types of scenarios are used in the design phase: activity scenarios, information design scenarios, and interaction design scenarios. Which of the follow describes an activity scenario?

• It focuses on the UI functionality needed to complete tasks.

• It focuses on the object and actions needed to complete user tasks.

• It focuses on the tasks users perform and the product functionality required to allow the tasks to be performed.

• It is a combination of tasks needed to be performed and how users feel while performing them.

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

• 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.

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

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

• Each collaborator brings a unique set of skills to the team.

Prototyping is one tool in gathering data about your visitors. Which of the analysis methods listed below is used in combination with prototyping?

• Usability testing

• Diary studies

• Ethnographic shadowing

• Context interviews

As the Project Manager of a Web site design team you stress the importance of consistency in all the site pages. One of your developers asks you how to achieve that and you reply:

• We will write out a list of steps to follow when building pages.

• We will make pages and then change them to make them match.

• I will design a single representative page from the site, and then we will use this page as a template to build the remaining pages of the site.

• We will have the same person build all the pages.

In the iteration process of user centered design, the core cycle of design, prototype and test are repeated over and over. What drives the refinement of requirements, design and development?

• Test analysis scores are what drives the refinement, design and development of a site as test scores are objective and can't be misinterpreted.

• Feedback from programmers, developers and site designers are what drive the refinement of a Web site as their input is integral to the process.

• Updates and directives from employers and investors drive the refinement of the site as they know what their customers want.

• As the user is the center of UCD, feedack from users is applied to refine requirements, design and development.

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

• By opening a wireframe sketching application on your computer.

• By sketching out what your page layout will include.

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

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

You are very careful to spell and grammar check your site pages because you know a spelling or grammatical error could:

• Cause a page not to be displayed correctly in a browser

• Cause a page to be translated incorrectly.

• Disrupt any command in coding as the function or style from the CSS would not be applied

• Cause users to feel the site is unprofessional and to view the organization as unprofessional, causing a decline in the owner's brand

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 are guidelines to create long-lasting and aesthetically pleasing sites.

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

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

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

You are weighing the pros and cons of responsive Web design and mobile Web design. One of the characteristics of responsive Web design and not mobile Web design is that:

• The browser does most of the work of optimizing the page for screen size, resolution and portrait vs. landscape orientation.

• The server does most of the work of optimizing the page for smaller devices.

• Using different pages for different devices makes mobile sites harder to maintain.

• Using different pages for different devices makes mobile sites less forward compatible.

Which statement regarding the evolution of Web user interface is true?

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were created and specified the presentation, appearance and layout of HTML pages thus allowing a wide population access to information on the Internet.

• The HTML <table> element gave designers the ability to create tabular, spreadsheet-like data and made Web pages visually interesting and flexible.

• The introduction of Flash technology allowed computers to interact and access information of various kinds as a "Web of nodes" for users to browse.

• Hypertext Markup Language enabled users to interact with page content through the browser by scrolling and clicking links, HTML tables then transitioned Web designers into thinking in terms of more complex, fluid layouts and DHTML allowed designers to create fully interactive Web sites.