Deck 6: User Interface Design Questions and Principles

Question 1

Which of the following is not a design principle that allow the user to maintain control?

A)provide for flexible interaction
B)allow user interaction to be interrupt-able and undo-able
C)show technical internals from the casual user
D)design for direct interaction with objects that appear on the screen

Answer 1

show technical internals from the casual user

Question 2

Which of the following is not a user interface design process?

A)user, task, and environment analysis and modeling
B)interface design
C)knowledgeable, frequent users
D)interface validation

Answer 2

knowledgeable, frequent users

Question 3

HyperCard is used to develop a quick

A)system design
B)software
C)mockup
D)quality test

Answer 3

mockup

Question 4

The total number of stages of reading process of the data from screen is

A)2
B)3
C)4
D)5

Question 5

Which of the following are principles of icon design?

A)the icon set should be consistent in terms of size, colours, metaphor, and level of realism.
B)design a set of icons as a whole.
C)the icons in a set should be visually balanced
D)all of the above.

Question 6

What is the principal interaction mode for a Wii system?

A)gesture and body movements
B)haptic (touch) interface
C)exploring and browsing
D)infrared position detection

Question 7

What is true for vertical protoyping?

A)it is a particular kind of working prototype.
B)it provides full interface features.
C) it is designed to show how much vertical scrolling is acceptable
D) it provides critical functionality.

Question 8

What kind of activity does the D.E.C.I.D.E. acronym support?

A)planning and conducting an evaluation and analysing the data.
B)conducting user tests.
C)deciding what kind of prototype to use for user tests.
D)deciding whether to perform empirical or analytical evaluations.

Question 9

By using capitalized words, the reading speed and accuracy

A)increased
B)improved
C)declined
D)leveled

Question 10

Impressing moving icons in a system design can be

A)appealing
B)attractive
C)distracting
D)attentive

Question 11

The speed of reading text in reading process is measured by using

A)legibility
B)usability
C)quality
D)readability

Question 12

The design of a system must be developed

A)integrally with each part of system
B)at the end
C)at the start
D)never

Question 13

Which is the best definition of an interface metaphor?

A)in broad terms, the kind of technical and software framework within which human system interaction takes place (e.g., wimp, mobile, tangible)
B)is used in the interface to help the user understand what to do (e.g., click on tabs to change window contents, use shopping cart
C)inputs and receive information from the system (e.g., click and drag an object, talk to an object, move self closer to an object, converse with
D)the conceptual model used to guide the design of the interface.

Question 14

To reconstruct a system, which of the following key element(s) must be considered :

A)outputs and inputs
B)control and processors.
C)feedback and environment
D)all of the above

Question 15

Which of the following is not a characteristic of good test data

A)should be comprehensive
B)every statement should be executed
C)users do not participate at this preliminary stage
D)all of the above

Question 16

Which of these factors influence a user's conceptual model?

A)familiarity with similar devices.
B)constraints.
C)instructions.
D)all of the above

Question 17

Formative Evaluation:

A)helps improve an interface design
B)involves collecting process data.
C)helps find reasons for things that went wrong
D)all of the above

Question 18

Regarding personas:

A)a primary persona needs their own interface
B) multiple secondary personas are combined into a primary persona.
C)a persona represents an average user.
D)a persona represents the elastic user.

Question 19

Which of the following is the most likely interface metaphor used by a smart phone calendar function?

A)restaurant menu
B)touchscreen interface
C)a paper diary
D)mobile technology

Question 20

When desk-checking an algorithm, you should set up a table that contains           .

A)one column for each input item
B)one column for each output item
C)one column for each processing item
D)all of the above

Question 21

Factors that effect speed of screen reading can be reduced using

A)brightened displays
B)less words per screen
C)colorful display
D)negative contrast

Question 22

Which of the following is the estimated amount of time required to complete a task, based on a weighted average of pessimistic, optimistic, and expected duration?

A)minimal duration
B)earliest completion
C)weighted average duration
D)most likely duration

Question 23

Regarding gear-up accidents:

A)pilots frequently lowered the landing gear instead of the flaps after take-off.
B)lt. alphonse chapanis dicovered the cause of the problem in 1975.
C)the flap control knobs were replaced by beer tap handles.
D)shape-coded wheel and flap controls are still used today.

Question 24

Human speed of reading text is higher at

A)tablet screen reading
B)mobile screen reading
C)book reading
D)computer screen reading

Question 25

Which of the following is not a factor in the failure of the systems developments projects?

A)failure of systems integration
B)size of the company
C)continuation of a project that should have been cancelled
D)inadequate user involvement