VIS 457 Quiz 1

What is Material Design?

An Android-oriented design language created by Google, supporting onscreen touch experiences via cue-rich features and natural motions that mimic real-world objects.

How does Material Design optimize users’ experiences?

3D effects, realistic lighting and animation features in immersive, platform-consistent GUIs

How is Material Design different than skeumorphism?

Designers apply basic, natural *laws* from the physical world, principally concerning lighting and motion. On the other hand, skeuomorphism shows culture-relevant items such as wastebaskets.

What are the 5 steps of Design Thinking?

Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test

What is empathy in design thinking?

A deep human focus in order to gain insights which may reveal new and unexplored ways of seeing, and courses of action to follow in bringing about preferred situations for business and society

Design Thinking encourages people to work in what way?

Collaborative, multi-disciplinary teamwork. Leverage skills, personalities, and thinking styles of many in order to solve multifaceted problems.W

What does Design Thinking do with the perceived problem/challenge at hand?

Reframes it and gains perspectives for a more holistic look at the path towards these preferred situations.

What type of thinking does Design Thinking initially employ?

Divergent styles of thinking to explore as many possibilities as possible. Defers judgment. Open ideations space for max number of ideas/POVs

What type of thinking does Design Thinking employ later?

Convergent styles of thinking to isolate potential solution streams. Combines and refines insights and more mature ideas.W

When does Design Thinking explore selected ideas?

Early. Rapidly models potential solutions

Why does Design Thinking explore ideas early?

Encourages learning while doing. Allows for additional insight into viability of solutions before too much time/money has been spent

Why does Design Thinking test protoypes?

To remove any potential issues. Only prototypes that survive other stages

Why does Design Thinking iterate through the various stages?

To redefine the challenge as new insight and knowledge is gained

Design thinking starts off ????? and ends when ?????

Chaotic; a desirable, feasible, and viable solution emerges

What is the Design Thinking Process a blend of?

Heart, head, and hand

What is atomic design?

A methodology composed of five distinct stages working together to create deliberate interface design systems

What are the five stages of atomic design?

Atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, pages

What are atoms?

UI elements that can’t be broken down any further and serve as the elemental building blocks of an interface. EX: Basic HTML elements like form labels, inputs, and buttons

What are molecules?

Collections of atoms that form relatively simple UI components. EX: Form label, search input, and button can join together to create a search form molecule

What is an organism?

Relatively complex components that form discrete sections of an interface. Ex: Header

What is a template?

Page-level objects that place components into a layout and articulate the design’s underlying content structure. Focus on page’s underlying content structure, rather than final content Ex: Homepage template

What are pages

Apply real content to templates and articulate variations to demonstrate the final UI and test the resiliency of the design system. Specific instances of templates that replace placeholder content with real representative content

What kind of process is atomic design?

Nonlinear

What is a design sprint?

A unique five day process for validating ideas and solving big challenges through prototyping and testing ideas with customers

What are the five steps of a design sprint?

Understand, ideate, decide, prototype

What is understanding in a Design Sprint?

Map out the problem and pick an important area to focus

What is ideate in a Design Sprint?

Sketch out competing solutions on paper

What is decide in a Design Sprint?

Make decisions and turn your ideas into a testable hypothesis

What is prototype in a Design Sprint?

hack together a realistic prototype

What is test in a Design Sprint?

Get feedback from real live users

What is the How Might We Method used for?

To turn existing problems into opportunities

What does the Nielsen Model suggest about user testing?

You only need to interview five users who fit in with your target customer profile