This week we’re debuting a new feature, intended to exercise your UX skills. All the answers can be found in articles that we published in the past year.

  1. What is the difference between legibility and readability?
    1. No difference: they mean the same thing.
    2. Legibility refers to how well people can actually see the different characters and symbols in text, whereas readability refers to how complicated the words in your text are.
    3. Readability refers to how well people can actually see the different characters and symbols in text, whereas legibility refers to how complicated the words in your text are.
    4. Legibility refers to how well people can actually see the different characters and symbols in text, whereas readability refers to whether people can read out loud the text on the page.

     



  2. The navigation hub is a mobile-navigation pattern in which a site’s homepage lists all the possible navigation options, and all the other pages link back to the homepage. The navigation-hub pattern is well suited for:
    1. Sites where users freely browse for content
    2. Sites where users frequently explore different branches of the navigation hierarchy during a single session
    3. Task-based sites where users rarely explore different branches of the navigation hierarchy during a single session
    4. All sites

     



  3. Page parking is a user behavior that refers to:
    1. Opening multiple pages in rapid-fire succession as a way to save the items on those pages and revisit them at a later stage
    2. Opening different sites in different tabs as the user encounters them during the day, as a way to have them available at all times
    3. Bookmarking a page in the browser or in a tool like Evernote or OneNote to be able to remember it later on
    4. Explicitly committing a page to the user’s internal working memory with the purpose of revisiting it at a later stage

     



  4. Which of the following is NOT a typical you-are-here navigation mechanism?
    1. Logo
    2. Breadcrumbs
    3. Footer
    4. Window (page) title

     



  5. Which of the following stages of persona creation is likely to take the most time?
    1. Stage I: Gathering data for personas
    2. Stage II: Analyzing the data gathered in Stage I
    3. Stage III: Crafting the actual personas
    4. All stages typically take the same amount of time.

     



  6. On touchscreens, sliders work best in which of the following circumstances:
    1. At all times
    2. When users must indicate a precise value such as weight or age
    3. When users must indicate an approximate value such as time of the day when they would like to travel
    4. When the layout would look visually unappealing if a different control were used

     



  7. What is the difference between slips and mistakes?
    1. They are interchangeable terms that both mean “human error.”
    2. Slips refer to human errors, and mistakes refer to software-system errors.
    3. Mistakes occur when the user intends to perform one action, but instead ends up doing another (similar action). Slips occur when users have goals that are inappropriate for their tasks.
    4. Slips occur when the user intends to perform one action, but instead ends up doing another (similar action). Mistakes occur when users have goals that are inappropriate for their tasks.

     



  8. What is the best practice for logging in and registration on ecommerce websites?
    1. Ask users to log in or create an account if they do not have one; do not offer a guest checkout option.
    2. Ask users to log in or create an account if they do not have one; do not offer a guest checkout option, but explain the benefits of registration.
    3. Allow users to check out as guests.
    4. Allow users to check out as guests and offer the option to register at the end of the checkout.

     



  9. Which of the following content or interaction would be most appropriate for being presented in an overlay or a lightbox:
    1. A 5-page long user manual
    2. A 1-field form asking for a zipcode to personalize a site according to location
    3. A promotion displayed when the user first lands on the homepage
    4. A multistep mortgage-application form

     



  10. Pogosticking refers to a hub-and-spoke pattern of users repeatedly navigating from a main page to a page deeper in the site’s hierarchy, then immediately back to the main page. The pogosticking pattern is most likely an indication that:
    1. People struggle to find relevant content on your site
    2. Users find your site appealing and like to visit many pages
    3. Users are impatient and do not wait for the page to load
    4. Your site is too slow

     



What Was Your Score?

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