Deck 5: Designing Documents, Slides, and Screens

Question 1

Good document design is all about aesthetics rather than economics.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Effective design groups ideas visually making the structure, among other things, more obvious.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

There is little research to support document design; in fact, most of what we know about designing paper documents comes from simple trial and error.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Stick to traditions when designing documents; there's no reason to follow research.

Question 5

Good design is important in all documents, not just résumés or brochures.

Question 6

White space often seems empty and pointless to readers; therefore, use as little of it as possible in documents.

Question 7

A way to create white space is to use headings.

Question 8

Use your space bar rather than the tab key to indent items in a list.

Question 9

Headings can be short phrases in business documents.

Question 10

Typefaces with descenters and ascenders slow down reading.

Question 11

Use 9- or 10-point type for most letters and memos.

Question 12

If you have proportional typefaces, use ragged right margins.

Question 13

"Ragged right"is another term for an unjustified right margin

Question 14

A 48-point font is good for titles in presentation slides.

Question 15

If at all possible, customize the basic template of a PowerPoint presentation. Many people see a lot of presentations, and yours may seem less interesting if it uses the standard colors and background designs.

Question 16

Studies show that users grow impatient after waiting 15 seconds for a page to load.

Question 17

Web pages should offer an overview of the content of the page on the first screen.

Question 18

Content in Web pages is much more important than design.

Question 19

Think about design only at the last stage of the writing process; after all, until you know what you will say, there's no point in worrying about what it will look like.

Question 20

Rather than use headings to divide your document into sections, use them to help you decide which sections to use.

Question 21

Headings and subheadings must all be parallel throughout the document.

Question 22

We recognize words by the patterns of letter combinations.

Question 23

In a letter or memo, type headings in boldface.

Question 24

In order for business and administrative documents to look substantive, most paragraphs should be fairly long, more than seven or eight typed lines.

Question 25

Use bulleted lists when the number or sequence of items needs to be exact, and numbers when the number and sequence don't matter.

Question 26

One-sentence paragraphs are unacceptable in business writing.

Question 27

A common sans serif font in business communication is Fundamental.

Question 28

Most clip art today is quite diverse, so there's no need to be sensitive to such issues when choosing it for your document.

Question 29

The opening screen of a Web page is less important than the page that describes who created it.

Question 30

Web pages should use large graphics, as most users are now on high-speed Internet lines.

Question 31

Because animation is so easy to do today, all Web pages should have an animated opening screen.

Question 32

Keeping animation to a minimum on Web pages, especially the opening screen, is a good idea.

Question 33

If your Web page includes music or sound effects,

A) Make sure they're set at a loud enough volume to get the user's attention immediately.
B) Put an Off button where the user can find it immediately.
C) Use music that will make the most sense to users culturally.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

Question 34

Which of the following is NOT a way to improve white space?

A) Use a font that is 1 point larger.
B) Use lists.
C) Use paragraphs of uniform length.
D) Occasionally indent paragraphs on both sides for emphasis.
E) Both A and C

Question 35

Which of the following is NOT a good tactic when using headings?

A) Make headings specific.
B) Make each heading cover all the material until the next heading.
C) Keep headings at any one level parallel.
D) Use all capital letters for all headings.
E) All of the above are good tactics.

Question 36

You've shared a document with several people who mirror your audience's tastes. Three of those people say it's a little tough to read. Which of the following is the BEST strategy to improve its visual impact?

A) Use all capital letters.
B) Put headings in italics rather than bold.
C) Use three fonts instead of one.
D) Use a serif font rather than a sans serif one.
E) None of the above.

Question 37

What is the smallest number of fonts you can use if you use bold and underlining as well as regular type in a document?

A) One.
B) Two.
C) Three.
D) Four.
E) Five.

Question 38

You've shown your Web page to potential users, who seemed frustrated with the opening screen. Chances are they're troubled most by

A) Poorly-designed graphics.
B) Loud and grating music.
C) Too many buttons and links.
D) Not finding the information they want quickly.
E) None of the above.

Question 39

Which of the following is a good tactic when designing Web pages?

A) Include a Skip Intro button if you have an animated introduction page.
B) On only the last page, include a link to the home page.
C) Provide visual variety on the page.
D) All of the above.
E) Only A and C

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of good document design?

A) Well-designed documents enhance the writer's credibility.
B) Readers may not understand and act on poorly designed documents.
C) Well-designed documents take less time to write.
D) Poorly designed documents take longer to read.
E) All of the above are advantages.

Question 41

Explain how to create white space in documents.

Question 42

Explain why the first screen of a Web page so important.

Question 43

List the ways to use white space to make your documents more effective visually.

Question 44

Explain the functions of headings in a document.

Question 45

_______ fonts have little extensions from the main strokes.

Question 46

In ________ margins, lines end evenly at the right side of the page. In ________ margins, lines end in different places because word length is different.

Question 47

In presentation slides, use ___ or ___point fonts for titles.